Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.


Henry Rollins

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so...
MIRANDA KERR
God created all things. It's men who decide which ones are mistakes.
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES
They keep saying that beautiful is something a girl needs to be. But honestly? Forget that. Don’t ...
NIKITA GILL
I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has be...
CARINE ROITFELD
I just like beautiful women. They don't have to be a celebrity, though... I mean, if they're...
MARSHAWN LYNCH
I think that women who know who they are are beautiful.
DEMI LOVATO
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG
Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine w...
SUSAN SONTAG
I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make y...
IRINA SHAYK
But beautiful girl above all beautiful girls,' he wrote back, 'This is my home.
JUNOT DíAZ
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about...
KATHARINE HEPBURN
Delhi women - they're the most beautiful women! But the fact remains that they know they are gor...
VIR DAS
The most beautiful birds do not know how beautiful they are until they see their reflection in water...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that al...
WALE
I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.
PAUL ERDőS
I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
VALENTINO GARAVANI
I think a lot of girls think that they have to be super-thin, to meet the Hollywood image, but I thi...
COREY SEVIER
That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kin...
WALTER MOSLEY
Those girls were there because someone told them they were ‘beautiful,’ but in high fashion, bea...
LADY GAGA
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be adm...
TERRY PRATCHETT
The men in the room suddenly realized that they did not want to know her better. She was beautiful, ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
When something is beautiful in math, everything is just perfectly lined up, and you see through shee...
SHANE CARRUTH
Everyone should have a team to help them make their life something beautiful.
AUTUMN DABROWSKI
What is most beautiful in virile men is sometimes feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women...
SUSAN SONTAG
No, Elenore's something else. You're beautiful. Especially when you look at me with that 'boy he's a...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
My little girls are the most beautiful women in the world. I am a lucky, lucky man. I will spend eve...
RUSSELL SIMMONS
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that...
OSCAR WILDE
I think Indian women are very beautiful. They have a sense of elegance and innocence.
PIERCE BROSNAN
Truth is like a flower, if you tend to it and leave it in the sunshine, it will blossom into somethi...
ANGIE KARAN
I know nothing at all about women. They are an amazing, beautiful mystery.
PETER O'TOOLE
As a result of things that may have happened in their past, women seem to find it hard to trust anyb...
CORALLIE BUCHANAN
I, Lexi Anderson, am proud to say that I do, indeed, have a great personality.
And it's only a ...
ELIZABETH EULBERG
You feel the electricity and the energy. We are giving something to them -- our gifts -- and they ar...
DEBRA SMITH
You’re a storyteller. Dream up something wild and improbable," she pleaded. "Something beautiful a...
LAINI TAYLOR
Women are like beautiful flowers. Only when you love them and take good care of them will they fully...
AVIJEET DAS
We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose...
CLIVE BELL
I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.
RITA MAE BROWN
They are a beautiful glimpse into a beautiful country. He is really very talented. It's surprising t...
LINDA WALLACE
She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she tho...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.
SARAH OCKLER
To my taste, the men in Rome are ridiculously, hurtfully, stupidly beautiful. More beautiful even th...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
My challenge is to find a beautiful balance: to make women beautiful, to make a woman dream to wear ...
RAF SIMONS
Pretty girls in sports is the golden ticket. This girl is someone to use because she has good looks ...
MARGARET DONALDSON
Sometimes you have to do something ugly so that something beautiful can grow.
CEDRIC NYE
We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is lik...
CLIVE BELL
Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
I. M. PEI
Pareidolia. One of my favorite words. It's when your mind sees a pattern you recognize where there i...
JEFF ZENTNER
It was so beautiful, because I knew they weren't just embracing what we had done. They were embracin...
CRAIG MARBERRY
Beauty is the lowest common denominator: I don't care what they say - every girl, every woman, w...
EVA CHEN
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resour...
GOLDA MEIR
Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resou...
GOLDA MEIR
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resourc...
GOLDA MEIR
You know what a supernova is? It's a dead star. And yet, it is the most beautiful specimen in the un...
C. JOYBELL C.
Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective.
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS
Beautiful faces are easy to find, they are everywhere. A good, kind heart on the other hand, that’...
CARLOS SALINAS
There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their int...
MARK TWAIN
The Universe said, ‘Let me show
your soul something beautiful.
ABERJHANI
They aren't giving up. They are beautiful people.
NICHO AGUILAR
Girls need more hobbies. In general, women have work and kids. They want something else.
AMY TURNER
When it comes to the most beautiful women of all time, head-turning, full-on glamour wins the day. T...
HELEN JOHNSTON
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a m...
DREW BARRYMORE
I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beauti...
PADMA LAKSHMI
I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful.
STEPHENIE MEYER
It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. It's exciting for the kids and they are really looking forward to...
ANDRE COOK
Men are still men. When they call on the phone, they just want something big and beautiful. And they...
ARLINE HUCKABAY
Regret is a short, evocative and achingly beautiful word: an elegy to lost possibilities even in its...
DAVID WHYTE
…girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those “in the know” assured me...
JAKE VANDER-ARK
Flowers that are offered for the dead, do not know the difference of where their beauty will be plac...
C. JOYBELL C.
I don't do any microdermabrasion or any type of injections in my skin because I think that's...
MELANIA TRUMP
Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.
ALEX FLINN
You look so beautiful! Women love to hear this because they are. If you disagree, try it on your wif...
SOTONYE ANGA
It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.
DEMOCRITUS
It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new
DEMOCRITUS
They treat their cocktails like dishes -- they have to be both beautiful and balanced.
DUGGAN MCDONNELL
I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when the...
VANESSA MARCIL
A girl has to have a beautiful smile, Beautiful eyes and she should have a good sense of humor. She ...
JUSTIN BIEBER
The word 'circumnavigate' is quite a beautiful word.
CATE BLANCHETT
Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was; for in the b...
CHARLES DICKENS
A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.
DANICA MCKELLAR
The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautifu...
JOHN MCCARTHY
Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more ...
C. JOYBELL C.
I think the only necessary conclusion is that we are too beautiful, because being not beautiful at a...
ZOE TROPE
Sadness is beautiful, because it is lost hapiness.
HERMAN VAN VEEN
Their children are finally having their voice. They feel they have to speak for an entire community ...
ARTHUR ALVAREZ
I just want you to know, you lost me. You lost a beautiful soul.
HENANNIE ZARAGOZA
Women are always beautiful.
VILLE VALO
He has a beautiful grin, totally at peace and still up to something mischievous. It's a special phot...
ANITA THOMPSON
A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our cultu...
NEIL STRAUSS
They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They s...
RALPH LAUREN
It is not only a beautiful object but it transcends that which we know and are familiar. It is other...
DARRYL PITT
The difference between pretty and beautiful is-
pretty is temporal-whereas beautiful is eternal.
ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS
I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very differe...
MAUREEN JOHNSON
It's not going to help my reader if we only show girls who are size 6's. Everyone is beautiful, it's...
ATOOSA RUBENSTEIN
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so oc...
OSCAR WILDE
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occu...
OSCAR WILDE
Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the wh...
LOUISE BROOKS

More Henry Rollins

The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests...
HENRY ROLLINS
I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abando...
HENRY ROLLINS
Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.
HENRY ROLLINS
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
HENRY ROLLINS
I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us o...
HENRY ROLLINS
In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.
HENRY ROLLINS
The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down,...
HENRY ROLLINS
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
HENRY ROLLINS
I wonder what it's like to be from a state that is spread across a few islands way out in the Pa...
HENRY ROLLINS
I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singin...
HENRY ROLLINS
Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few ...
HENRY ROLLINS
Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 ...
HENRY ROLLINS
You are the reason I don't want to die all the time. When I am with you, life is worth living. Tim...
HENRY ROLLINS
To burn a CDR of music you like to give as a gift to someone you wish to become closer to is a cold,...
HENRY ROLLINS
In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with...
HENRY ROLLINS
When I'm off the road, and I can really control my diet down to the calorie, I juice seven days ...
HENRY ROLLINS
We Californians can watch the Weather Channel for images of winter's brutality unleashed upon ou...
HENRY ROLLINS
It took me until my teenage years to realize that I was medicating with music. I was pushing back ag...
HENRY ROLLINS
Creating problems is easy. We do it all the time. Finding solutions, ones that last and produce good...
HENRY ROLLINS
Questioning anything and everything, to me, is punk rock.
HENRY ROLLINS
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
HENRY ROLLINS
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light, If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your ...
HENRY ROLLINS
I am on until I am dead, like a light bulb.
HENRY ROLLINS
I'm a big fan of the American Tapes label. But that's very hard to keep a grip on that becau...
HENRY ROLLINS
I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some ...
HENRY ROLLINS
I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to...
HENRY ROLLINS
Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start...
HENRY ROLLINS
When life hands you a lemon, say, "Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else ya got?"
HENRY ROLLINS
It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the mor...
HENRY ROLLINS
Don't go to summer camp. Bury your parents in the backyard and have the place to yourself.
HENRY ROLLINS
If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I...
HENRY ROLLINS
I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think ...
HENRY ROLLINS
Do you know why Albert Camus was so prolific? He wrote to keep from screaming.
HENRY ROLLINS
If you want to go the scorched-earth, Obamacare-is-like-slavery route and choose to stay uninsured, ...
HENRY ROLLINS
I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a wa...
HENRY ROLLINS
While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per t...
HENRY ROLLINS
It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.
HENRY ROLLINS
I have come to regard November as the older, harder man's October. I appreciate the early darkne...
HENRY ROLLINS
Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, a...
HENRY ROLLINS
My motto is, 'Never quit.'
HENRY ROLLINS
As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends...
HENRY ROLLINS
With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.
HENRY ROLLINS
I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees...
HENRY ROLLINS
If American forces leave Afghanistan, the Taliban is going to do what to America? Don't say you&...
HENRY ROLLINS
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people ...
HENRY ROLLINS
We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection ...
HENRY ROLLINS
Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to wor...
HENRY ROLLINS
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. Preside...
HENRY ROLLINS
I think more airtime should be given to Donald Trump and Orly Taitz. They should run for office toge...
HENRY ROLLINS
Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold.
HENRY ROLLINS
There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kink...
HENRY ROLLINS
I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of ...
HENRY ROLLINS
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spil...
HENRY ROLLINS
Amy Winehouse was not a person I ever met, and I can't say that I am overly conversant in all of...
HENRY ROLLINS
If it's a man's world, as they say, then men, your world is a poorly run carnage fest.
HENRY ROLLINS
I see walking bombs on the street
Hearts not beating, but ticking
HENRY ROLLINS
You don't make me feel like you used to.
That's why I'm leaving
That's why people leave ea...
HENRY ROLLINS
I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long li...
HENRY ROLLINS
I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Som...
HENRY ROLLINS
It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get an...
HENRY ROLLINS
I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaste...
HENRY ROLLINS
I was happy to find out that when on tour, Dolly Parton doesn't use hotels but stays on her bus ...
HENRY ROLLINS
Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great me...
HENRY ROLLINS
August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late ...
HENRY ROLLINS
August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity...
HENRY ROLLINS
August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.
HENRY ROLLINS
For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights:...
HENRY ROLLINS
Maybe I'm just a psycho, and the stage is a better place to go than either the loony bin or some...
HENRY ROLLINS
I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to se...
HENRY ROLLINS
Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.
HENRY ROLLINS
I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ev...
HENRY ROLLINS
'SMiLE' is perhaps the Beach Boys' most legendary album. It was recorded in 1966 and 196...
HENRY ROLLINS
I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.
HENRY ROLLINS
So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, th...
HENRY ROLLINS
Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop...
HENRY ROLLINS
The perpetrators of the actual bad stuff that does real and lasting harm to people, like leakage of ...
HENRY ROLLINS
Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few...
HENRY ROLLINS
The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute lit...
HENRY ROLLINS
To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to...
HENRY ROLLINS
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probab...
HENRY ROLLINS
The truth is an anti-war statement in itself.
HENRY ROLLINS
America sold VX nerve gas and anthrax to Iraq for years, even after the Halabja gas attack, which ki...
HENRY ROLLINS
I spend several days at a time without enough sleep. At first, normal activities become annoying. Wh...
HENRY ROLLINS
As so much music is listened to via MP3 download, many will never experience the joy of analog playb...
HENRY ROLLINS
I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the t...
HENRY ROLLINS
I don't cuss in songs. It's too easy.
HENRY ROLLINS
Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.
HENRY ROLLINS
I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as...
HENRY ROLLINS
I don't know how much you follow current events. For some, there's not enough time to keep u...
HENRY ROLLINS
To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.
HENRY ROLLINS
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a pe...
HENRY ROLLINS
Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'W...
HENRY ROLLINS
Please don't think that I am one of those squishy types who can't handle reality. I have ple...
HENRY ROLLINS
People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and ...
HENRY ROLLINS
I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perh...
HENRY ROLLINS
I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.
HENRY ROLLINS
There are records that, in my opinion, only reach their full potential when the listener is disorien...
HENRY ROLLINS
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in wh...
HENRY ROLLINS
If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is d...
HENRY ROLLINS
I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.
HENRY ROLLINS
Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.
HENRY ROLLINS
Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets sho...
HENRY ROLLINS
If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old,...
HENRY ROLLINS
Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting eac...
HENRY ROLLINS
Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual...
HENRY ROLLINS
I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes p...
HENRY ROLLINS
Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and internatio...
HENRY ROLLINS
Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this ...
HENRY ROLLINS
In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the ...
HENRY ROLLINS
Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.
HENRY ROLLINS
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
HENRY ROLLINS
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
HENRY ROLLINS
Try driving the streets of Los Angeles without seeing a billboard depicting a film with a lead actor...
HENRY ROLLINS
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communic...
HENRY ROLLINS
The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-bil...
HENRY ROLLINS
My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that Wes...
HENRY ROLLINS
For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened...
HENRY ROLLINS
One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unk...
HENRY ROLLINS
If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establis...
HENRY ROLLINS
One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a...
HENRY ROLLINS
I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the f...
HENRY ROLLINS
The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders get...
HENRY ROLLINS
I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
HENRY ROLLINS
I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.
HENRY ROLLINS
I urge you to read the Occupy Manifesto, written by the New York City General Assembly. It is unavoi...
HENRY ROLLINS
I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If ...
HENRY ROLLINS
When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years...
HENRY ROLLINS
Even though I am not hungry when I get up, I try to eat to get me ready for the day. Within an hour ...
HENRY ROLLINS
'Fox News' will one day come to an end. Led Zeppelin will not. It's as simple as that.
HENRY ROLLINS
When a young non-white male is stopped and searched at the whim of a police officer, his idea of per...
HENRY ROLLINS
I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you&#...
HENRY ROLLINS
I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased...
HENRY ROLLINS
With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the pr...
HENRY ROLLINS
Whenever any great song or album gets lost in the ether, someone is deprived of the joy of hearing i...
HENRY ROLLINS
Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite Ameri...
HENRY ROLLINS
When I see the hatred exacted at Mr. Obama - you know, he lowered your taxes, killed your number one...
HENRY ROLLINS
Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ec...
HENRY ROLLINS
If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and n...
HENRY ROLLINS
Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I ...
HENRY ROLLINS
August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed he...
HENRY ROLLINS
It's why real men just go out in the woods and howl. I must do it and get paid.
HENRY ROLLINS
I contribute a large amount of money to the Southern Poverty Law Center, so I'm on their mailing...
HENRY ROLLINS
Juan Williams is a very sharp guy.
HENRY ROLLINS
Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps ...
HENRY ROLLINS
I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really bori...
HENRY ROLLINS
25 Years of Bullshit.
HENRY ROLLINS
For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot...
HENRY ROLLINS
That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive a...
HENRY ROLLINS
For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.
HENRY ROLLINS
Literally thousands of lawsuits have been filed against the NFL by retired players, many of whom say...
HENRY ROLLINS
I think it is incumbent on anyone who can to lift human dignity to the highest possible levels, main...
HENRY ROLLINS
I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.
HENRY ROLLINS
I think it's fantastic when the young enrage their elders. I really do believe that if it's ...
HENRY ROLLINS
Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the b...
HENRY ROLLINS
And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russ...
HENRY ROLLINS
This is my own little rock theory: In my mind, Nirvana slayed the hair bands. They shot the top off ...
HENRY ROLLINS
Live music is the cure for what ails ya.
HENRY ROLLINS
I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and m...
HENRY ROLLINS
If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in Ame...
HENRY ROLLINS
The Wacken festival started more than 20 years ago with just a few hundred people in attendance. Tic...
HENRY ROLLINS
You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a...
HENRY ROLLINS
Mr. Christ, I read you as an infinitely patient entity who, as they say, often works in mysterious w...
HENRY ROLLINS
Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would thi...
HENRY ROLLINS
Nelson Mandela will always be the face of South Africa. The traveler passing through the country wil...
HENRY ROLLINS
I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to s...
HENRY ROLLINS
The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true cri...
HENRY ROLLINS
Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.
HENRY ROLLINS
Since the last tour I have done a lot of extensive travel to Iraq, Kuwait, Siberia, South Korea and ...
HENRY ROLLINS
I walk the straight lines. I walk through the summer nights. I walk the silver rope of dreams. I wal...
HENRY ROLLINS
I am ready for whatever's coming. I expect nothing but to be let down or turned away. I am alone. Go...
HENRY ROLLINS
I was burned out on people, their talk and their bullshit.
HENRY ROLLINS
You would think that pot had some kind of power; I mean come on, it's a plant, not a reason for livi...
HENRY ROLLINS
I want to meet a woman that will make me stop and listen to what she has to say. I want a woman who ...
HENRY ROLLINS
Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Beca...
HENRY ROLLINS
Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.
HENRY ROLLINS
Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.
HENRY ROLLINS
One day, I stopped hating.
I ceased all meaningless activity.
I completed the circle. I HENRY ROLLINS
Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold onto something or someone the more it wants to get awa...
HENRY ROLLINS
I am too far gone to be rehabilitated.
HENRY ROLLINS
Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered
Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness an...
HENRY ROLLINS
I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.
HENRY ROLLINS
You can find me in the frozen mood section.
HENRY ROLLINS
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS
My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To keep getting up every ...
HENRY ROLLINS
The first Van Halen album makes Johnny Rotten out to be what he really was and still is: a hairdress...
HENRY ROLLINS
Barack Obama's administration responded to the Haitian crisis within 24 hours. Here comes the so...
HENRY ROLLINS
Nothing Brings People together more, then mutual hatred
HENRY ROLLINS
I have always maintained that Iggy Pop is the Heavyweight Champion of Rock & Roll.
HENRY ROLLINS
They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have ...
HENRY ROLLINS
If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mo...
HENRY ROLLINS
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is huma...
HENRY ROLLINS
Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very act...
HENRY ROLLINS
I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page...
HENRY ROLLINS
It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't emp...
HENRY ROLLINS
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper an...
HENRY ROLLINS
There's no such thing as an ex-junkie.
HENRY ROLLINS
'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure...
HENRY ROLLINS
Life is full of choices, if you have the guts to go for it. That's why I get immediately bored with ...
HENRY ROLLINS
To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.
HENRY ROLLINS