Top 100 Henley Quotes
#1. Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.
Don Henley
#2. My voice is a combination of how I grew up and what I was listening to growing up. I like a lot of different kinds of music and am always being inspired in different ways by different artists for different reasons.
Tess Henley
#3. We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.
Don Henley
#4. 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.
Don Henley
#5. The kids kept walking, moving through the Henley's halls like a tide, but when Kat turned to leave, she walked in the opposite directions. She wasn't an ordinary kid, after all.
Katarina Bishop followed no one.
Ally Carter
#6. any town that thought books were cool enough to be in a bar was A-OK in her book.
Delphina Henley
#7. No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.
Don Henley
#8. I am an expert witness because I say I am.
Don Henley
#9. Sharper than a serpents tongue, tighter than a bongo drum, quicker than a one night stand, slicker than a mambo band.
Don Henley
#10. It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.
Don Henley
#11. 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.
Georgie Henley
#12. In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?" Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. "Surely such a travesty has never occurred.
Dan Brown
#13. I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.
Don Henley
#14. I was flying back from Lubbock and I saw Jesus on the plane, or maybe it was Elvis. You know, they kind of look the same.
Don Henley
#16. It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it.
[On The Heart of the Matter, during the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour.]
Don Henley
#17. The bubble headed bleach blonde comes on at five, she can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye. It's interesting when people die, gives us dirty laundry.
Don Henley
#18. One night, Don Henley called, and I told him, 'I'm washing dishes and bike shorts.' He said, 'It's in the domestic exercises of life that one will find the biggest inspiration.' And he was right.
Sheryl Crow
#19. An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.
Don Henley
#20. I love to have real people of history interact with my fictional characters. History gives me the plot. I research the period meticulously, and then I blend in a romantic and sensual love story to give it balance. The heavier the history, the more romantic the couple must be.
Virginia Henley
#21. I grit my teeth. Despite everything, I mutter with a smile, "No."
"No, what?"
"No, I'm glad you came."
"I haven't ... yet."I slap my book across his arm, blushing furiously.
"You're impossible."
"And you're incredible.
K.A. Tucker
#22. Remember how you made me crazy, remember how I made you scream.
Don Henley
#23. Blue was standing over her, shaking out his wet hair like an annoying blue dog. Beads of water clung to the muscle of his chest. He was wiry, not buff like Henley, but his body made up for size with definition.
Nothing could make up for his personality.
"Stop dripping on me," Mira snapped.
Sarah Cross
#24. My mother treats me exactly the same as she has always done, and the same as my older sisters. She tells me off when I need it, and sometimes I do need telling to go to my room or to do my homework.
Georgie Henley
#25. With horror he saw that her hair was already afire as the tarred stake burned about her head. He held her agonized gaze with his fierce black eyes. "I'll love you forever, and beyond," he vowed as he raised both arms and plunged his sword into her heart.
~Marcus Magnus
Virginia Henley
#26. It was a pretty good year for predators.
Don Henley
#27. Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.
Don Henley
#28. Nobody on the road. Nobody on the beach. I feel it in the air, the summer's out of reach.
Don Henley
#29. I write my own stories. I like telling stories to little children. I think the good thing about stories is they carry you to another place which you've never been. And you feel like you're just enveloped by the book and the characters.
Georgie Henley
#31. I'd say most of my songs I write from personal experience. When I feel like I don't have any inspiration in my personal life, I think about others that are close to me and maybe what they're going through or even just people I've come across, acquaintances.
Tess Henley
#32. I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can.
Georgie Henley
#33. That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
Warren Zevon
#34. I'm looking forward to getting older. I look at people like Peter Gabriel and Sting and even Tom Petty, Don Henley. People that didn't lose it. I'm hopefully going to join that club.
Brandon Flowers
#36. And so that means ... "
"We have to rob the Henley," Simon said.
Kat sank onto a truly uncomfortable sofa. "Again.
Ally Carter
#37. I find it fascinating to think about what the world is going to be like when people won't talk anymore.
Beth Henley
#38. I'll watch anything as long as it's good. I can't choose just one movie that I love.
Georgie Henley
#40. To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear his heart in his breeches pocket or anywhere but on his sleeve.
William Ernest Henley
#41. My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone.
Don Henley
#42. If god had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.
Linda Henley
#43. We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.
Don Henley
#44. Henley - " She reached for him, but he eluded her grasp. "I don't want you to go."
"No, you want to be the one who leaves. That's how it works, right? You go whenever you're ready. And to hell with what I'm ready for.
Sarah Cross
#45. 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.
Don Henley
#46. When I meet some of my commuting acquaintances on the 6.21 home to Henley-on-Thames they occasionally enquire what I have done that day. I have been known to reply: 'I moved Africa 600 kilometres to the south.' They usually turn quickly to the soccer page. One
Richard Fortey
#47. I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
Beth Henley
#48. My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.
Don Henley
#49. You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with you.
Beth Henley
#50. Besides, when I read the list of people who are supporting Kerry, if I wasn't already a Bush supporter, I would have immediately switched. Linda Ronstadt? Don Henley? Geez, that's a good reason right there to vote for Bush.
Alice Cooper
#51. That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
Beth Henley
#52. Master of masters,
O maker of heroes,
Thunder the brave,
Irresistible message:
'Life is worth living
Through every grain of it
From the foundations
To the last edge
Of the cornerstone, death.
William Ernest Henley
#53. That is my rule of life. If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. Do you remember Henley's magnificent lines?
'Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.' ?
That is my gospel. What do you think of it?
William McFee
#54. I love to work, although sometimes I can spend whole days doing nothing more than picking the lint off the carpet and talking to my mother on the phone.
Beth Henley
#55. The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.
Don Henley
#56. Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.
Don Henley
#57. Oh beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They're beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man we elected king.
Don Henley
#58. 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.
William Ernest Henley
#59. 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.
Beth Henley
#61. In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one's actions..
Don Henley
#62. You're driving with your eyes closed.
Don Henley
#63. Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories.
Virginia Henley
#65. 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 ...
James Henley Thornwell
#66. The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.
Beth Henley
#67. I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
Beth Henley
#68. One mistake I will never regret for the rest of my life, it is Ashton Henley.
K.A. Tucker
#69. Life - give me life until the end,
That at the very top of being,
The battle-spirit shouting in my blood,
Out of the reddest hell of the fight
I may be snatched and flung
Into the everlasting lull,
The immortal, incommunicable dream.
William Ernest Henley
#70. Blaze said. "To Mini-Golf Insanity Land.
A.F. Henley
#71. And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.
Beth Henley
#72. Who knows how long this will last, now we've come so far so fast.
Don Henley
#73. Filming is a very adult world, and you need to be with people your own age.
Georgie Henley
#74. To want what I have, to take what I'm given with grace. For this I pray ...
Don Henley
#75. I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of.
Don Henley
#76. I think I take little pieces of inspiration, then kind of do what's real to me and what's going on in my life or what I observe from other people's experiences and hope other people connect with it, too.
Tess Henley
#77. So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.
Don Henley
#78. I now derive physical and spiritual pleasure from gardening and there is tremendous satisfaction in knowing that I could survive almost anywhere if I had to.
Don Henley
#79. I have always been drawn to the Restoration period of Charles II. I have a soft spot for Charles Stuart, who was always loving and kind to the opposite sex. The members of his court were fascinating, and Barbara Castlemaine was one of the greatest courtesans in history.
Virginia Henley
#80. Thick is the darkness
Sunward, O, sunward!
Rough is the highway
Onward, still onward!
Dawn harbors surely
East of the shadows.
Facing us somewhere
Spread the sweet meadows.
Upward and forward!
Time will restore us:
Light is above us,
Rest is before us.
William Ernest Henley
#81. I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.
Don Henley
#82. The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.
Don Henley
#83. But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could be as dumb as me, and I don't have to be very smart.
Beth Henley
#84. Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.
Beth Henley
#85. The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
Beth Henley
#86. 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.
Beth Henley
#87. I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes magnificent history, and he also wrote the Flashman stories, which are irresistible.
Virginia Henley
#88. Life - life - let there be life!
Better a thousand times the roaring hours
When wave and wind,
Like the Arch-Murderer in flight
From the Avenger at his heel,
Storm through the desolate fastnesses
And wild waste places of the world!
William Ernest Henley
#89. For you girl, there is not enough love in the world.
Don Henley
#90. So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.
William Ernest Henley
#91. Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.
William Ernest Henley
#92. What the head makes cloudy
the heart makes clear
Don Henley
#93. Into the winter's gray delight, Into the summer's golden dream, Holy and high and impartial, Death, the mother of Life, Mingles all men for ever.
William Ernest Henley
#94. The land of opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls.
Don Henley
#95. No one would have ever guessed that seven of the world's most talented teenagers were coming to the Henley that day for an entirely different sort of lesson.
Ally Carter
#96. I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
Beth Henley
#98. It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so many years; because I wrote it and I didn't realize what a rage I was in.
Beth Henley
#99. I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.
Don Henley
#100. Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.
J. D. Souther
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