Kulinda Rollins Quotes

While I disagree with our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have nothing but respect and admiration for the men and women deployed in these places. ~ 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'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it. ~ Henry Rollins

He recovered quickly, reaching out to touch a few outstretched hands, melting the front row of girls like one long stick of butter as he moved closer toward me. ~ Emme Rollins

You'll never know that just sitting across a room full of people, I have transformed you into a goddess. A destroyer of despair. ~ Henry Rollins

Quite often people will get an animal which is probably not a good idea for them to have. They get it out of enthusiasm, there is a genuine interest, but sometimes they're not exactly prepared for what they're getting themselves into. ~ Henry Rollins

I think Americans really need to start thinking globally. As resources become more dear, we will be pulled closer to the rest of the world anyway. ~ Henry Rollins

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent. ~ Henry Rollins

I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time. ~ Henry Rollins

We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP. ~ Henry Rollins

I'll know when I find the ultimate sound. ~ Sonny Rollins

All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself. ~ Henry Rollins

It is only our humanity that can deliver us from the brutality of our achievements. ~ Henry Rollins

When someone is always looking over their shoulder, they're more likely to trip. ~ James Rollins

I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop Don't want to let my brain catch up my thoughts How will I be able to tell them that I'm a shadow A grey patch of cold rotting life ~ Henry Rollins

commotion and flurry. ~ James Rollins

There would not be enough talent that's educated, developed and ready to take on the next leadership challenge, and it would cap our growth. Now we've put programs in place not to have that happen, but that could be a weakness. ~ Kevin Rollins

The truth is an anti-war statement in itself. ~ Henry Rollins

As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves. ~ Henry Rollins

Friends come and go but 200lbs is always 200lbs. ~ Henry Rollins

Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature. ~ Henry Rollins

The bible saw that can get a lot of people killed, so let's try and steer people away from that. I am not an expert on the bible. I am just saying. ~ Henry Rollins

EPIGRAPH And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? ~ James Rollins

All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are. ~ Henry Rollins

He looked at her Something Turned cancerous He was in love. ~ Henry Rollins

I don't want to play old music. To me, it is fighting battles that are already over and calling yourself a warrior. For me, I see no courage or adventure in doing the old thing over again. If others want to, that's for them. For myself, I have to move on. Life is too short to live in the past. There is a lot to be done. ~ Henry Rollins

I always took quite seriously the things that Chuck D. of Public Enemy had to say. He's always been someone I've learned quite a bit from and someone I pay a great deal of attention to. ~ Henry Rollins

It really was a whole generation who were listening to Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny Rollins, James Moody, Fats Navarro and, a little bit later on, Mongo Santamaría and Chuck Berry, and these dozen or so guys gave them a voice. They led the way. They wrote what a whole generation wanted to read. The time was right and they seized the day by writing about their lives. They travelled, they got into scrapes, they got arrested, they got wasted … and they wrote about it.

Isn't that something? ~ Karl Wiggins

It's about time that governments feared the people instead of the other way around. ~ Henry Rollins

You can still function as a living ruin. ~ Henry Rollins

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed. ~ Henry Rollins

If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back. ~ Henry Rollins

He said that hate makes the world go round
People are afraid of what they really want
They make enemies of all the things that they would like to be
They condition themselves to not embrace what they are
Love is a clinging nausea
I tried to disagree with him
It was no use
I never saw a more honest look in anyone's eyes. ~ Henry Rollins

Books are cool, but knowledge without mileage doesn't mean anything to me. ~ Henry Rollins

We must savor every moment given us," she stressed. "We know not where this journey ends so we must wring each scrap of joy out of it while it lasts. ~ James Rollins

I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It's not what Tom Friedman writes about; I'm sorry. You're going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can't get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people - Americans and Europeans - come back and go, ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on. ~ Henry Rollins

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore. ~ Henry Rollins