Quotes

“In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.” Henry Rollins

“It is just that I don't want a wife and I don't want kids.” Henry Rollins

“Most Americans are very cool people.” Henry Rollins

“Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.” Henry Rollins

“Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.” Henry Rollins

“So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.” Henry Rollins

“The world's a better place since I chose music.” Henry Rollins

“There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.” Henry Rollins

“There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.” Henry Rollins

“To this day, my haircut is the number two clippers, which I apply to myself every month.” Henry Rollins

“War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.” Henry Rollins

“We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.” Henry Rollins

“When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.” Henry Rollins

“You don't have to twist my arm to work.” Henry Rollins

“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” Rumi

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” Rumi

“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.” Rumi

“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” Rumi

“Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.” Rumi

“It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.” Rumi

“Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.” Bill Gates

“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.” Bill Gates

“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” Bill Gates

“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.” Bill Gates

“If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.” Bill Gates

“I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.” Bill Gates

“Life is not fair get used to it.” Bill Gates

“I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.” Bill Gates

“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.” Bill Gates

“Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.” Bill Gates