Book Quote by Henry Rollins

“I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.”

Henry Rollins

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings)

Book Books Documentaries Ifs Knows Travel Want

More by Henry Rollins

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

Henry Rollins

Image

I think that one of the hardest things in the world to be is a black male. I mean everyone hates your guts. White…

Henry Rollins

Image

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

Henry Rollins

Image

We spend millions of dollars to remove pain from our lives. It's why so many people get hooked on painkillers. The body becomes addicted…

Henry Rollins

Image

Sleep is for squares.

Henry Rollins

Image

There's a lot of mountain climbers trapped inside of bodies of people behind the counter at Kinko's.

Henry Rollins

Image

If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will…

Henry Rollins

Image

I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent…

Henry Rollins

Image

I feel pain everyday of my life. When you see me perform, it's that pain you're seeing coming out. I put all my emotions,…

Henry Rollins

Image

I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did.

Henry Rollins

Image

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon…

Henry Rollins

Image

Young, gay and stuck in Arkansas? Sounds like a horror flick.

Henry Rollins

Image

Explore all 1,006 Henry Rollins quotes

More Book quotes

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Image

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

Aesop Rock

Image

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

Andrew Lang

Image

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

Floyd Cooper

Image

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

Anna Quindlen

Image

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

Patrick Rothfuss

Image

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Image

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society…

Doris Lessing

Image

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

Neil Gaiman

Image

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

Anne Bronte

Image

The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

Benjamin Graham

Image

Browse all 29,278 Book quotes

Book Quote by Henry Rollins

Related quotes

More by Henry Rollins

More Book quotes