Quotes About Henry

Carloads of tourists would photograph the family mailbox, and there was weird mail, death threats.

Corden's a comedy powerhouse.

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness.

THE KING: Not the Holbein Henry, but a much younger man, clean-shaven, bright-eyed, graceful and athletic. The Golden Hope of the New Learning throughout Europe. Only the levity with which he handles his absolute power foreshadows his future corruption.

England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in his fat fists.

He is wearing an old overcoat from the Salvation Army in Easton, Pennsylvania. It cost five bucks ten years ago, Louise remembers. Henry is not interested so much in the bargain, he wants ghosts in his clothes. He likes wondering what another man kept in those deep pockets. He writes poems about it.

Devil, worked with Henry Allen and the day laborers, and it

And of course they'll get their milk from us, because Gooch's milk in the village really can't be trusted. I do hope, Henry, the vicarage drains are all right if Martin is to go there, because the French are rather vague about drains.' 'Yes, but darling, they aren't bringing their drains with them'...

I gave Henry a supscription [sic] to the Book of the Month club that tells you the book you have to read every month to make your individuality stand out. And it really is remarkable, because it makes over 50,000 people read the same book every month.

So I even promised Henry's mother that she could act in the films. I mean I even believe that we could put in a close-up of her from time to time, because after all, nearly every photoplay has to have some comedy relief.

In 1939, Orwell wrote a long essay titled 'Inside the Whale,' about modernism, the nineteen-thirties, Henry Miller, and 'Tropic of Cancer.'

I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery.

There are few scientists in the world with the resources I have at my disposal.

Colonel Parker asked Henry and me to come to Elvis' suite and have breakfast. There were at least five policemen stationed up there. He was talking on the telephone.

Henry explained his experiment on the submarine, using the variolation procedure.

but then I was so utterly entranced by our discussion of Einstein's relative theory - Relativity, Ling corrected quickly under her breath. - that I completely lost track of the time. Funny, Ling whispered. What? Henry said. Lost track of... Ling shook her head, never mind.

All, right then. Henry raised his hand like a sorcerer. Oh, Ling Chan, Madame Curie of the dream world, he intoned dramatically, barely keeping a straight face. Sleep hath released thee! Now is the time thou must waketh! Ling rolled her eyes. You're an idiot.

When people talked about family as something special, a place where you belonged, a dull anger nipped at Henry, a feeling that he'd been cheated of this basic comfort.

But we must find somewhere appropriate to leave Henry." He groaned. "You look so extremely respectable, you know." "I have a flexible mind—I believe it's one of the advantages of growing old," she explained. "I find youth quite rigid at times. Why not a cemetery?" Colin

Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James.

Whatever I had to prove in the 'Flash' world about myself as an actor, I proved as Henry Allen.