August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer. Henry Rollins More Quotes by Henry Rollins More Quotes From Henry Rollins When Black Flag and DOA and all those bands were touring in the early 80s, it was kind of a forest and you just kind of got your way through it. Now it's like a six lane highway with Starbucks every twenty meters. That's just civilization. Henry Rollins blacktwentiescivilization The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture. Henry Rollins camerasinformationworld I have had a number of less-than-enviable moments in my life when dealing with other people. I won't attempt to blunt that by saying I am not the only one. Henry Rollins momentsnumberspeople Sleep is for squares. Henry Rollins squaressleep When the Iron doesn't want to come off the mat, it's the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn't teach you anything. Henry Rollins flew-upironceilings Why let your fury lay deep inside you, sullenly boiling your blood into silent steam and griding your bones to dust? I it not better to thrust it out with great velocity from every pore, with your every action? Let your actions speak your legend. The physical is the manifestation of the spirit. Let your spirit be teeming with fury. Let your strength be unusual and controlled. The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go. Henry Rollins dustheromen perfection. I have been waiting all my life to be with you. My heart slams against my ribs when I think of the slaughtered nights I spent all over the world waiting to feel your touch. Henry Rollins heartnightthinking I don't try to be angry to prove something. I wouldn't try to intimidate you for any reason unless you were trying to intimidate me, and then I would show you that you can't do that to me. Henry Rollins intimidatingreasontrying They say true love only comes around once and you have to hold out and be strong until then. I have been waiting. I have been searching. I am a man under the moon, walking the streets of earth until dawn. There's got to be someone for me. It's not too much to ask. Just someone to be with. Someone to love. Someone to give everything to. Someone. Henry Rollins strongmoonmen Don’t think about it. Do it. Don’t talk about it. Do it. Henry Rollins thinking So many Americans, for one reason or another, they watch the news and it doesn't really give them the idea of the world. Or they don't read or travel. They have no idea that America is part of the world and not the world itself. Henry Rollins givingamericaideas What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup. Henry Rollins coffee-cupcupscoffee I like it better that people aren't throwing stuff at my face and trying to fight me on stage. Like in the '80s, it was just aggravating all the time... I have scars from cigars and cigarettes on me, Bic pens, burns from cigarette lighters, all that. Henry Rollins fightingtryingpeople I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine. Henry Rollins painfeelingsthinking As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me. Henry Rollins touch-metelling-the-truthlong All I have is me. Over-worked, under-appreciated, middle-aged, and shriveled up. Henry Rollins middle-agedmiddleappreciated Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated. Henry Rollins defeatlastsdoe It's one thing to buy a copy of 'Atlas Shrugged.' You actually have to read it to get anything out of it. Henry Rollins atlasone-thingcopies It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself. Henry Rollins ifstryingmean For me, Memphis has always been a city that holds a great deal of meaning and also leads me to a lot of thinking. Besides Sun Studio, which helped put rock n' roll on the map all over the world, the legendary Stax Studio also called Memphis home. Henry Rollins rockshomethinking
