W. E. Henley Quotes

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade

But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright.

Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

I'm not easy to live with and I know that it's true. However, you're no picnic either, babe, and that's one of the things I liked about you.

The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.

There are people in your life who've come and gone, they let you down and hurt your pride. Better put it all behind you, life goes on, you keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside.

It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

Life is worth Living Through every grain of it, From the foundations To the last edge Of the cornerstone, death.

I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.

So many are the deaths we die Before we can be dead indeed.

I've been trying to get down to the heart of the matter but my will gets weak and my thoughts seem to scatter but I think it's about forgiveness... forgiveness, even if you don't love me anymore.

Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true.

The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi.

Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.

To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray.

Remember how you made me crazy, remember how I made you scream.

Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Ere is a promise Of summer to be.

Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.

Open your heart and take us in, Love-love and me.

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one." (Between the Dusk of a Summer Night, 13-16)

No polity can be devised which shall perpetuate freedom among a people that are dead to honor and integrity. Liberty and virtue are twin sisters, and the best fabric in the world . . . .

What the head makes cloudy the heart makes clear

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.

I'm fortunate that I've been in this business long enough that I've earned the right to be left alone by my record company.

Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.

Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame.

Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.

Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.

Wherever a people have grown savage in arms so that human laws have no longer any place among it, the only powerful means of reducing it is religion.

For it's home, dearie, home--it's home I want to be. Our topsails are hoisted, and we'll away to sea. O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree They're all growing green in the old countrie.

It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble.

The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.

The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things.

In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

The more I know, the less I understand

Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's Nightingale, Love's a last year's rose.

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.