Ed Rollins Quotes

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Follow your dreams and work hard. There's no replacement for hard work, and that's true for any field. If you work hard at it, you're going to see the fruits of your labor, I guarantee it.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

My body's feeling sore, but my soul is feeling pretty good.

Wrestling seemed like something I might be good at, so I stuck with it and gave it a shot. I ended up in a pretty good place. I was very fortunate.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

Y'ALL ARE JUST BITTER.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

I could take over as host of The Daily Show for Jon Stewart and make that thing actually watchable.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

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

What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.

The church is a place where we make our prejudice sacred.

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

Books are keys that open many doors -- James Rollins

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

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

If I had to live my life in anticipation of what others thought of me, little would get done.

Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.

Whatever you believe, be open to being wrong

If you cannot speak your brokenness, your brokenness will speak for you.

You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.

Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.

When you start to doubt yourself the real world will eat you alive.

All by yourself, unable to express the pain of your distress with your deeper inside. You alienate yourself and everybody else.

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don't already know, and make me laugh. I don't care what you look like, just turn me on.

I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.

I am a veteran of the War on Christmas. I am just emerging from a battlefield strewn with dead trees and torn shreds of brightly colored wrapping paper.

I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.

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

Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon.

Want a good body? Work at it. Want to be a success? Work at it. Want to be truly exceptional? Be a touch insane... You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.