Henry Mayhew Quotes

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

Henry Mayhew

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I've followed Gary Oldman his whole career... I've watched the movies he's directed, like 'Nil by Mouth' - I've seen that five times!

Joel Kinnaman

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The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.

Max Nordau

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I've had bad jobs. Now I have a good one. I'm thankful.

Maurice Greene

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I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

Jeff Kinney

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Everything on this record is what I really wanted to say, and I'm back to being the poet I always thought I was.

Stevie Nicks

ThoughtBackSayEverythingPoet

We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

Robert Toombs

FearConflictWeaknessHandsLong

I have been in the business for 62 years. It's a match made in heaven.

Ronnie Corbett

BusinessHeavenYearsBeenMade

The United States has an unfair advantage, as most of the popular cloud services, search engines, computer and mobile operating systems or web browsers are made by U.S. companies. When the rest of the world uses the net, they are effectively using U.S.-based services, making them a legal target for U.S. intelligence.

Mikko Hypponen

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You can't rent a car in Bermuda; about twenty miles long and two miles wide at its fattest, it deems itself too small for surplus traffic.

Jonathan Miles

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I hope Seth Rollins becomes the safest, best wrestler in the world. And I wish him all the luck in the world.

Bret Hart

HopeBestLuckWorldWishI Wish

I love my dad. There is no doubt about that. He is a wonderful man and a good person. Like many father/son relationships, we have our struggles, our misunderstandings, and our miscommunications. We are very different people, but also very similar at the same time.

Brad Goreski

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The Internet has done a wonderful thing for us. But democracy doesn't work unless people are well informed, and I don't know that we are. People just don't have the time.

Brad Pitt

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