#ma

I have not the smarts or patience for political office. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#office #patience #political #political office #smarts

Gloria watched the swollen white orb of a hot-air balloon rising over Navy Pier and knew she had to break it off with Oliver, for he was the type who would never enjoy hot-air balloons, Van Morrison songs, or mess, whether from orgasm or otherwise. But who was she to be dreaming about mess today? ↗

— Andrea Kayne Kaufman

#music #ocd #oxford #poetry #redemptive

I want to learn more about the world. It makes me want to get up and go. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#get #go #i #learn #makes

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#also #anything #creativity #destroy #former

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#life #sad #small #times #very

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

#comes #go #i #matter #me

I've mis-signed many a book Rollins or Clemens. My readers quickly become aware. Booksellers will often promote me under both names, and I do plug both at signings. Generally, the fantasy reader has no problem going into the suspense genre. It's harder for the typical suspense reader to go the other direction. ↗

— James Rollins

#become #book #booksellers #both #direction

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark. ↗

— James Rollins

#bit #ends #go #history #i

I think right now the jury is out on where and how much profit is available in the consumer electronics industry, because if you look at the current consumer electronics players, the biggest ones on the planet struggle to make profit consistently. ↗

— Kevin Rollins

#because #biggest #consistently #consumer #current

I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient. ↗

— Kevin Rollins

#areas #bold #comments #good #i