Henry Mayhew Quotes

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.

Henry Mayhew

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 25, 1812 - July 25, 1887

Topics

TruthKnowledgeMindFactsDignity

I used to wear sneakers with those nice suits because I wanted Victor Sifuentes to have a bounce in the courtroom.

Jimmy Smits

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I realized my dream and was proud to be a Superstar. I never won a title, but being hired by WWE and being a Superstar, to me, was like winning a championship.

Robert Maillet

MeWinningProudDreamNeverBeing

I don't know what we did without Velcro in the American theater. It's a miracle substance! People had long intermissions, probably.

Jefferson Mays

PeopleAmericanLongKnowMiracle

If you go about trying to please everyone, there's going to be endless struggles.

Sonny Bill Williams

TryingYouPlease EveryoneGoGoing

I didn't grow up during the time that Louis Armstrong or Miles Davis and all those people were playing. So it's not really my responsibility to keep it up, what they were doing.

Trombone Shorty

TimeResponsibilityPeopleGrowUp

Nothing beats the original Krispy Kreme.

Jason Behr

NothingOriginalBeats

My mum lives in Boston; she's famous for teaching wushu and t'ai chi. So from when I was young, my mum and aunt were like: 'You're training; you're not playing baseball or football.' Training every day was normal. Later, when I was almost a teenager, Bruce Lee became my idol.

Donnie Yen

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Michael was divorced, lonely, and wanted children. I was the one who said to him, 'I will have your babies.'

Debbie Rowe

ChildrenLonelySaidWillHimYour

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

Christopher Nolan

PowerMeaningYouFirstSomething

I'm made up of immigrant stock. I went to a primary school in London. I grew up eating Spangles, why shouldn't I be as well placed to speak for Londoners as anyone else?

Boris Johnson

SchoolEatingSpeakWhyLondonUp

My father taught me Basic and rudimentary C, I learned everything else on my own, including studying computational complexity on my own. That's more a function of my age than anything else though - back when I was in school there were hardly any programming classes.

Bram Cohen

FatherAgeSchoolMeBackMy Own

By weight, you are more human than bacteria, because your cells are bigger, but by numbers, it's not even close.

Bonnie Bassler

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