My task is set before me, girl
My mission clear and true
There’ll be black knights and...
EMME ROLLINS Every bride is beautiful. It’s like newborn babies or puppies. They can’t help it.
EMME ROLLINS I looked at him like a stranger, someone I’d never seen before, and he looked at me like I’d bee...
EMME ROLLINS He lifted his head, the sight of his dark, disheveled hair, eyes glinting with longing in the lamp l...
EMME ROLLINS My panties were still on but he didn’t let that stop him, nosing them out of the way and tonguing ...
EMME ROLLINS Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I c...
EMME ROLLINS But I was done trying to wake her up, to make her see. To save her. The only person I could save was...
EMME ROLLINS Sometimes there’s no cure for the crazy.” Dale sighed, stroking my hair. “I think we all just ...
EMME ROLLINS I know you. Inside and out, Sara. I know you, and I’ve accepted it all. Every bit of the crazy. An...
EMME ROLLINS Fuck me,” I whispered, giving him permission, taking him into my flesh, a soft invitation to madne...
EMME ROLLINS You think he’s perfect and he’s safe and, in your head, he can do anything... but he can’t sav...
EMME ROLLINS He recovered quickly, reaching out to touch a few outstretched hands, melting the front row of girls...
EMME ROLLINS Our eyes met and locked as the song came to a halt, followed by a screaming conclusion from the crow...
EMME ROLLINS The best things in life are crazy.
EMME ROLLINS My knees were weak but he held me with one hand, guiding me with the motion of his hips. I was compl...
EMME ROLLINS We were a galaxy exploding into a million pieces, creating a whole new world, as we crashed against ...
EMME ROLLINS We fell into each other’s arms and kissed like we were coming up for air after being underwater fo...
EMME ROLLINS However, the importance of this transaction is that it provides Nordstrom with additional talent, ex...
EMME KOZLOFF A slight premium to the market is about as far as the P/E multiple should go until management provid...
EMME KOZLOFF The most surprising aspect of the earnings release was management's more conservative outlook for th...
EMME KOZLOFF However, the importance of this transaction is that it provides Nordstrom with additional talent, ex...
EMME KOZLOFF A slight premium to the market is about as far as the P/E multiple should go until management provid...
EMME KOZLOFF We see this as a positive and a necessity given that the scope and complexity of Wal-Mart's U.S. bus...
EMME KOZLOFF September sales were surprisingly resilient in the face of significantly higher gasoline prices. Whi...
EMME KOZLOFF Kevin Turner was seen as an up-and-comer within senior management ranks, so the departure does resul...
EMME KOZLOFF While the timing of this executive departure is not particularly good for Wal-Mart in light of the C...
EMME KOZLOFF We give Wal-Mart credit for its labor (cost) improvement in the quarter and hope this can continue.
EMME KOZLOFF 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 What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller gov...
ED ROLLINS I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republi...
ED ROLLINS I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-elec...
ED ROLLINS Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you're against Obama, against Obamacare...
ED ROLLINS I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would'...
ED ROLLINS There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
ED ROLLINS One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never...
ED ROLLINS I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and ev...
ED 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 I loved the Rumble that Shawn Michaels won. Bulldog threw him over, and he hung on by the skin of th...
SETH 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 Before I discovered CrossFit, I was really just doing regular bodybuilding, didn't understand at...
SETH 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 You can fool all the people all the time if the advertising budget is big enough.
ED 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 My styles range quite a bit. I go for an all-around kind of fan. Never wanted to be the dude that co...
SETH 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've done bingo halls and tents in front of 10 people with a cow mooing in the background. Doing...
SETH ROLLINS I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees...
HENRY ROLLINS The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if...
ED 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 There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very ...
SONNY 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 I don't avoid carbs. I don't avoid protein. I think it's just, again, about balance and ...
SETH 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 My biological dad was Armenian. My last name is Lopez, and I have a darker complexion, which throws ...
SETH 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 When the Republicans controlled the House from 1994 -2006, Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank...
ED 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 Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would ha...
KEVIN 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 What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respect...
SONNY ROLLINS Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting eac...
HENRY ROLLINS I like fats. I think fat is important. I think there is a reason we have it. Obviously it's part...
SETH ROLLINS Wrestling fans are usually pretty passionate, but Philly is one of the cities that takes that to a d...
SETH ROLLINS Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual...
HENRY ROLLINS I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some ...
JAMES 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 I've got a good set of eyeballs on me, so I can spot talent.
SETH ROLLINS The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-bil...
HENRY ROLLINS The Shield had run its course as a three-man group, and we'll go down in history as one of the g...
SETH ROLLINS With social media now, everybody's faceless, but I assume these kids sending me pictures of myse...
SETH 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 Fiction writing was in my blood from a very young age, but I never considered writing as a real care...
JAMES 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 I don't see myself in the ring as a high flyer or brawler or technical guy, but I feel I can do ...
SETH 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 There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses t...
SONNY 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 We hope to offload a tanker sometime today. We wanted to offload a tanker yesterday afternoon but we...
DALE 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 Intel's still our main partner. We have not announced anything with AMD and don't have anyth...
KEVIN ROLLINS If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and n...
HENRY ROLLINS It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has ...
KEVIN 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