The test of a good teacher is not how many questions he can ask his pupils that they will answer readily, but how many questions he inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard to answer


Alice Wellington Rollins

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Well, you would have to say what is the criteria to determine the success of any merger? It would ha...
KEVIN ROLLINS
People will remember that the Tea Party was co-opted and funded by billion-dollar corporations, and ...
HENRY ROLLINS
I have come to the conclusion that it's a waste of time to have too much pride in anything. Perh...
HENRY ROLLINS
I think it's important to have some documentation of the past.
HENRY ROLLINS
There are records that, in my opinion, only reach their full potential when the listener is disorien...
HENRY ROLLINS
Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in wh...
HENRY ROLLINS
If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is d...
HENRY ROLLINS
I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.
HENRY ROLLINS
Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.
HENRY ROLLINS
Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets sho...
HENRY ROLLINS
If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old,...
HENRY ROLLINS
What I can say is that for may years jazz musicians had to go to Europe, for instance, to be respect...
SONNY ROLLINS
Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I c...
EMME ROLLINS
Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting eac...
HENRY ROLLINS
I like fats. I think fat is important. I think there is a reason we have it. Obviously it's part...
SETH ROLLINS
Wrestling fans are usually pretty passionate, but Philly is one of the cities that takes that to a d...
SETH ROLLINS
Watching a documentary with people hacking their way through some polar wasteland is merely a visual...
HENRY ROLLINS
I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some ...
JAMES ROLLINS
I am not immune to the lure of a signed record, flier or set list. The fact that your music heroes p...
HENRY ROLLINS
Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and internatio...
HENRY ROLLINS
Death metal uses a lot of white face paint and black hair dye to make its point. I quite enjoy this ...
HENRY ROLLINS
In my bright, utopian future world, they will hand out college educations like cups of water at the ...
HENRY ROLLINS
Songs sung under duress are often very powerful.
HENRY ROLLINS
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
HENRY ROLLINS
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
HENRY ROLLINS
Try driving the streets of Los Angeles without seeing a billboard depicting a film with a lead actor...
HENRY ROLLINS
Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communic...
HENRY ROLLINS
I've got a good set of eyeballs on me, so I can spot talent.
SETH ROLLINS
The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-bil...
HENRY ROLLINS
The Shield had run its course as a three-man group, and we'll go down in history as one of the g...
SETH ROLLINS
With social media now, everybody's faceless, but I assume these kids sending me pictures of myse...
SETH ROLLINS
My first visit to West Berlin was in February 1983. The drive through East Berlin, the fact that Wes...
HENRY ROLLINS
For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened...
HENRY ROLLINS
One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unk...
HENRY ROLLINS
If the Constitution was a movie, the Preamble would be the trailer, the First Amendment the establis...
HENRY ROLLINS
One of the most insane environments I have ever spent time in is a gun range. There we are, all in a...
HENRY ROLLINS
I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the f...
HENRY ROLLINS
The GOP grows more and more unpopular with female voters seemingly every time one of its leaders get...
HENRY ROLLINS
I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
HENRY ROLLINS