Henry Miller Quotes

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

Henry Miller

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 26, 1891 - June 7, 1980

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Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

Robert Herrick

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Growing up, I didn't come from a musical family. Neither of my parents played an instrument, sang out loud, or listened to the radio with frequency. The record collection in the living room was only about 2 feet long - and that included 4 solid inches of Neil Diamond and Herb Alpert.

Amor Towles

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I watched 'Holiday' in college, and that was when I had my first fantasy of being Katharine Hepburn, standing at the top of the staircase in a huge Hollywood mansion.

Siri Hustvedt

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You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.'

Louis Susman

WishEasyYouKnowDoneSay

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

Confucius

StrengthHomeIntegrityNation

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

Claire Tomalin

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If our most highly qualified General Staff officers had been told to work out the most nonsensical high level organization for war which they could think of, they could not have produced anything more stupid that that which we have at present.

Claus von Stauffenberg

WorkWarOrganizationStupidThink

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

Anthony Kiedis

BusinessMusicWordsKnowTalkEven

The Chinese government does not like people betting against the yuan.

Anthony Scaramucci

GovernmentPeopleAgainstBetting

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.

Alice Miller

SimpleChildhoodPeopleFreeBelieve

I don't really read Stephen King - I just can't read scary things because it stays with me too long - but I truly liked his memoir of the craft of writing.

Phoebe Robinson

KingMeWritingLongCraftScary

I met Robert Redford at the Golden Globes because he stepped on my foot. He stepped on my foot as he was walking by, and he was like, 'Oh, I'm so sorry!' And I was like, 'It's all right. Robert Redford can step on my foot.'

Retta

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