W. E. Henley Quotes

In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.

I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said, don't look back, you can never look back.

You have to be more picky with jobs when you're at school because you can't miss crucial times and put your education in jeopardy for things that aren't worth it at the time.

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

Playing the drums hurts my back.

Life is a smoke that curls- Curls in a flickering skein, That winds and whisks and whirls, A figment thin and vain, Into the vast inane. One end for hut and hall.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.

For you girl, there is not enough love in the world.

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of.

Who knows how long this will last, now we've come so far so fast.

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.

We're being treated to the wisdom of some puffed up, little fart. Doing exactly what I used to do, pretensions to anarchy and art.

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.

I remember a time when things were a lot more fun around here, when good was good and evil was evil, before things got fuzzy.

The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.

I like individuality in fashion - it annoys me when celebrities put on a bodycon dress and a pair of high heels and suddenly they are 'style icons.'

This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature's essence.

Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.

I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

I find it fascinating to think about what the world is going to be like when people won't talk anymore.

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.

Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much.

My fault now is making my plays too short.

I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.

I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.

For every moment of joy Every hour of fear For every winding road that brought me here For every breath, for every day of living This is my Thanksgiving

If dirt were dollars, I wouldn't have to worry anymore.

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't look back, you can never look back

No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

I'm blessed with a pretty good voice. So just sitting back there banging on the tubs wasn't enough.

Nobody on the road. Nobody on the beach. I feel it in the air, the summer's out of reach.

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.

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

Cheese and jam are really nice. Cheese and apple as well. Cheese and grapes are good.

[T]hey stretch you on a table. Then they bid you close your eyelids, And they mask you with a napkin, And the anæsthetic reaches Hot and subtle through your being.

Madam Life's a piece in bloom Death goes dogging everywhere: she's the tenant of the room, he's the ruffian on the stair.

There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.

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.

I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.

An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.

We got the bubble headed bleached blonde comes on at five, She can tell you 'bout the plane crash with a gleam in her eye, It's interesting when people die give us dirty laundry...

The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.