Henry Quotes

405 quotes by 268 authors

A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression.… — William Powell
I love horses. I think I may have been one of Henry VIIIâ€™s knights in another life, riding through a great forest. — Madonna Ciccone
Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do… — Roger Maris
If we were in another country, we would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and kill their wives and… — Alec Baldwin
I think the thing about Anne Boleyn is there is an exotic quality to her. This is a woman who wasnâ€™t raised in the English… — Natalie Dormer
People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache?… — Peter Fonda
Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult. — Peter Fonda
Henry Fonda's son: That's how everybody identified me until Easy Rider came along. Good old Captain America. — Peter Fonda
I played for the best coach who ever lived, Henry Iba. I wasn't intimidated by Adolph Rupp. — Don Haskins
You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times, Ivanhoe, chivalry, Henry VIII, Merry… — Ian Hislop
Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isnâ€™t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry… — Susan Howe
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do. — Peter Straub
The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken. — Catherine McCormack
Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection.… — Virginia Woolf
I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger. — Gloria Steinem
I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. — David Antin
Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words. — Edward Abbey
Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world. — Edward Abbey
You canâ€™t learn to write in college. Itâ€™s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you doâ€”and… — Ray Bradbury
. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life -… — Ellen Glasgow

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