I tried to start a theatre in LA and failed miserably, but I was probably not meant to raise money.
BETH HENLEY I think that people have to be able to see two sides of the coin to survive because it is a racist s...
BETH HENLEY I think I had a job in a children's theatre. I taught badly because I was into nihilism at the time ...
BETH HENLEY I remember not knowing what a cue light was because I'd never worked in a production that was high c...
BETH HENLEY I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
BETH HENLEY I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays.
BETH HENLEY I didn't really know how to get it to a producer or how to get it to an agent. Nobody's going to loo...
BETH HENLEY I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.
BETH HENLEY But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a ...
BETH HENLEY "He started hating me, cause I couldn't laugh at his jokes. I just started finding it impossible to ...
BETH HENLEY What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn&...
BETH HENLEY Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class.
BETH HENLEY The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas...
BETH HENLEY It was kind of enlightening to become a playwright.
BETH HENLEY The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked ...
BETH HENLEY Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this di...
BETH HENLEY It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having ...
BETH HENLEY But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, a...
BETH HENLEY That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at le...
BETH HENLEY You can't just go in there and open your mouth until the cast and director feel comfortable with...
BETH HENLEY Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre depa...
BETH HENLEY The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan ...
BETH HENLEY Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York...
BETH HENLEY My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisi...
BETH HENLEY It's called Sisters of the Winter Madrigal. It was interesting for me to see it done after so ma...
BETH HENLEY In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
BETH HENLEY I'm very into the first production of the show.
BETH HENLEY I was just restless with being in school; so I went out to Los Angeles.
BETH HENLEY I did write a couple of original screenplays, but I'd rather write plays.
BETH HENLEY Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can reall...
BETH HENLEY Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, real...
BETH HENLEY My fault now is making my plays too short.
BETH HENLEY To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the de...
VIRGINIA HENLEY Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
DON HENLEY A man with a briefcase can steal millions more than any man with a gun.
DON HENLEY I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I...
DON HENLEY You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know,...
ANTHONY HENLEY Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look ba...
DON HENLEY Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun
DON HENLEY I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politic...
DON HENLEY I find it hard to believe that a horoscope would be ""true"" for 1/12 of the population that are all...
ANJIE HENLEY When its snowing like this, you better at least ""like"" who you live with.
ANJIE HENLEY having a "Conscious" is not learned by nature or nuture , it is not hereditary or inherited , and yo...
ANJIE HENLEY If you always need to catch up on something , does that mean that you were never caught up to begin ...
ANJIE HENLEY When I was your age, son, we didn't even have a damn Guitar Hero, we had to play AIR boy, you hear m...
ANJIE HENLEY Photographer: [fah-tog-ruh-fer]-noun A person who has resorted to using a camera to record and e...
ANJIE HENLEY It was an easy decision for me which books to self-publish as ebooks. I got the rights back to two A...
VIRGINIA HENLEY I first started writing historical fiction in the late '70s and kept pictures of Kathleen Woodiw...
VIRGINIA HENLEY I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in su...
DON HENLEY I have always been drawn to the Restoration period of Charles II. I have a soft spot for Charles Stu...
VIRGINIA HENLEY I like individuality in fashion - it annoys me when celebrities put on a bodycon dress and a pair of...
GEORGIE HENLEY I was born in England and went to school there. That's when I discovered my undying passion for ...
VIRGINIA HENLEY I did a great deal of research to write 'The Irish Duke.' Since all the people in this Lords...
VIRGINIA HENLEY I really look up to people who experiment in all areas and I think Johnny Depp is a really good acto...
GEORGIE HENLEY I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those art...
DON HENLEY the difference between classy and trashy correlates to assertive and aggressive
ANJIE HENLEY There is a shortage, a national deficit of people that are looking for people to love and allow othe...
ANJIE HENLEY When it came down to crunch time, their kids made the plays and ours didn't.
DAVID HENLEY [Henley said his family has tempered his outlook.] I think there's more of a balance in the music, ....
DON HENLEY It's time to get down to the heart of the matter. And I think it's about forgiveness?even if you don...
DON HENLEY Dirty Laundry
DON HENLEY We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you 'bout the pla...
DON HENLEY Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don't look back, you can never look back.
DON HENLEY Business continues to be extremely robust, which makes us bullish on the second quarter and the rest...
JEFF HENLEY Business continues to be extremely robust, which makes us bullish on the second quarter and the rest...
JEFF HENLEY I devour history books. I love anything by Thomas B. Costain or George MacDonald Fraser. He writes m...
VIRGINIA HENLEY The Boys of Summer,
DON HENLEY I'm sure The Eagles will go into the studio eventually, probably in the fall after we get back and g...
DON HENLEY Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution li...
DON HENLEY Photographer: [fah-tog-ruh-fer]-noun A person who has resorted to using a camera to record and expre...
ANJIE HENLEY I was either standing in your shadow, or blocking your light; Though I kept on trying I could not ge...
DON HENLEY i had my first hot flash yesterday and was told by a good friend that Merlot and coffee help....well...
ANJIE HENLEY Unlike a Garden, a friendship needs two tenders in order for it to grow
ANJIE HENLEY When all you can afford is peanut butter, at least make peanut butter cookies!
ANJIE HENLEY When God wakes up, he turns on the sun
ANJIE HENLEY When you wish out loud, magic happens
ANJIE HENLEY When the world gives us harsh cold winds our true friends, like our favorite blanket, wraps us up in...
ANJIE HENLEY People just made up that old saying about sticks and stones............ they lied
ANJIE HENLEY as I lose my eyesight my vision improves .....
ANJIE HENLEY don't ever give up on the fairy tale........... when you do it becomes certain that it will never ha...
ANJIE HENLEY Its not about the SIZE of the equipment or the PRICE TAG either, its all about how you use your equi...
ANJIE HENLEY ANY RELATIONSHIP (family, friends, lovers, etc) ............ takes two to "tend to it" if you don't ...
ANJIE HENLEY life should be as easy as mario makes it.........you just jump a few hurdles, kill a few monsters an...
ANJIE HENLEY You cannot grow sunflowers with poison ivy seeds
ANJIE HENLEY They say that blood is thicker than water............. well so is TAR baby........... and don't forg...
ANJIE HENLEY When its snowing like this, you better at least "like" who you live with.
ANJIE HENLEY I think sometimes it would be good to tear my heart from my chest and bury it in my yard and then sa...
ANJIE HENLEY Sometimes not talking about it , is the best way I know to talk about it.
ANJIE HENLEY I find it hard to believe that a horoscope would be "true" for 1/12 of the population that are all b...
ANJIE HENLEY Have you ever noticed that the Rotten and Tart Apples tend to fall closer to the trees than the swee...
ANJIE HENLEY Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will ta...
DON HENLEY I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him.
DON HENLEY Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group t...
DON HENLEY The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been endi...
DON HENLEY In this case, it was much colder than forecast, not only for our systems, but other systems in the a...
TOM HENLEY A last-second loss just crushes you. Tonight it was a 19-point game. In a game like that, you slowly...
DAVID HENLEY In our last two games we had double-digit leads and lost because we quit playing defense. That was p...
DAVID HENLEY We played really well in the first half. We played hard on defense and moved the ball. When we do th...
DAVID HENLEY That's got to be creeping into (our players') minds a little bit. But they still found a way to win.
DAVID HENLEY He always gives us a lift.
DAVID HENLEY It's better to be sitting here talking about playing poorly and winning than going home with a loss.
DAVID HENLEY I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right ...
DON HENLEY I'm not really sure what we'll do there. We'll have to work through what comes across from Optus and...
GARRY HENLEY We have to ask, 'where are the crossovers in knowledge'.
GARRY HENLEY In the next six to twelve months, we'll be substantially bigger and growing in this space.
GARRY HENLEY We had to reinforce with our staff that [the takeover] makes sense. We are the catalyst to help driv...
GARRY HENLEY As rates rise, there would be more demand because most investors are interested in protecting themse...
HENLEY SMITH We thrive on volatility. That's better for me because it will broaden my trading ranges that we can ...
HENLEY SMITH The argument in the bond market is not that it's inflationary but it's a drag on disposable income, ...
HENLEY SMITH We're slowing down our growth in spending in Asia, but we're not going into a retrenchment mode. Tha...
JEFF HENLEY Nine months ago, we set out to save one billion dollars annually by using our own Internet e-Busines...
JEFF HENLEY Nobody knows exactly how this year is going to play out, ... We do know there was a bubble of spendi...
JEFF HENLEY A billion dollars in annual savings translates to a 10-point improvement in our margins. We did bett...
JEFF HENLEY We have an enormous sales pipeline for both applications and technology, ... Typically that's proven...
JEFF HENLEY As far as we can tell, technology spending for enterprise hardware and software remains very soft an...
JEFF HENLEY Our assumption is that the U.S. economy will continue to improve, at least gradually, but technology...
JEFF HENLEY Our visibility going forward remains very limited, as has been the case for the last 18 months,
JEFF HENLEY Solid execution in the field, a strengthening competitive position, and an improving economy contrib...
JEFF HENLEY Given the difficult global economy and the increasing uncertainty caused by the impending war in Ira...
JEFF HENLEY Coach (Lavin) has been telling us to crash the net, so that is what I did on that play. Everyone kne...
TOM HENLEY Thick is the darkness--
Sunward, O, sunward!
Rough is the highway--
Onward, still o...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Master of masters,
O maker of heroes,
Thunder the brave,
Irresistible message:
'...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY O Death! O Change! O Time! Without you, O! the insufferable eyes Of these poor Might-Have-B...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishment the scroll. I am the master of my fa...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west, Where the sun, his day's work en...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods ma...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY A late lark twitters from the quiet skies:
And from the west,
Where the sun, his day's work en...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but ...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY The smoke ascends In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires Shine and are changed. In the valley...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon ...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practic...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusio...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chan...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my f...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the ma...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY This is the merit and distinction of art: to be more real than reality, to be not nature but nature&...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY What is the voice of strange command Calling you still, as friend calls friend, With love that...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Failing yet gracious, Slow pacing, soon homing, A patriarch that strolls Through the ten...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Here is a promise Of summer to be.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality i...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Feminism was a dirty word. Women's issues weren't being adequately covered.
RITA HENLEY JENSEN We're delving into the psychology of undercover work that they weren't able to do in the series - wh...
BARRY SHABAKA HENLEY You saw every strata of the African American community, ... the doctor, the janitor, the guy who jus...
BARRY SHABAKA HENLEY Balzac's ambition was to be omnipotent. He would be Michelangelesque, and that by sheer force of...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Saturday, May 22d.---It is now Saturday night, and I must prepare for the holy Sabbath. My Bible and...
JAMES HENLEY THORNWELL Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever go...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my f...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody, but unbowed.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Night with her train of stars / And her great gift of sleep.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Shakespeare and Rembrandt have in common the faculty of quickening speculation and compelling the mi...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, rev...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Out of the starless night that covers me,
(O tribulation of the wind that rolls!)
Black ...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Shakespeare often writes so ill that you hesitate to believe he could ever write supremely well; or,...
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY As a kid, I was always mad - just noticing the women at Thanksgiving, running around the kitchen, wh...
BETH DITTO A beautiful plant is like having a friend around the house.
BETH DITTO It's not the winning that teaches you how to be resilient. It's the setback. It's the lo...
BETH BROOKE My dad would always say, 'Girl, you've been given gifts. Use them.' And what he meant by...
BETH BROOKE I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned te...
BETH DITTO Setbacks are just learning experiences.
BETH BROOKE I'm shameless, and I love a pun. There's a lot of Beth puns.
BETH DITTO Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.
BETH GIBBONS The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben...
BETH ORTON I enjoy doing fun things outdoors with my son to stay in shape. We like camping together. After a we...
BETH RIESGRAF My dad liked to boil a squirrel head and suck the brains out the nose. Smaller than a chicken, bigge...
BETH DITTO We are, at least in part, who we remember ourselves to be. Take away our memories, and you take away...
BETH REVIS I've belched a lot more since I had gall bladder surgery. I don't know why.
BETH DITTO Jessica. For god's sake," he said. "Allow me to do at least one common courtesy for you. In spite ow...
BETH FANTASKEY Choice or no, my heart is his.
BETH REVIS Where do you. come from?" Frank challenged, puffing his chest, a little bolder now that he could bre...
BETH FANTASKEY Why did I sign up for this?'

'Because we grow by challenging ourselves.
BETH FANTASKEY I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things ...
BETH GUTCHEON What is clear is that business leaders must commit to champion change - to be transparent about thei...
BETH BROOKE Portland is a place where you can find a community as a feminist, a vegan or a fat activist. Artists...
BETH DITTO I didn't have a fireworks moment for my salvation. I had a falling in love with Jesus in Sunday ...
BETH MOORE Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if...
BETH GRANT God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a parti...
BETH MOORE I knew that if I wanted to stop being a pushover I had to get comfortable with small rejections myse...
BETH DITTO The fans of 'Speed' are very different from the fans of 'To Wong Foo,' which are dif...
BETH GRANT More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It mu...
BETH REVIS I have this vintage Valentino clutch. Ughhh, it's so pretty! Also, I'm not a big fur person,...
BETH RIESGRAF As a business that's strategy-focused, I regularly experience bias on the part of male clients who a...
BETH ZIMMERMAN Many of the environmental modifications of interest to women are so fundamental that I expect them t...
BETH ZIMMERMAN Women want to simplify what they perceive to be an unnecessarily complex shopping process. Above all...
BETH ZIMMERMAN When you go from one lecture hall to another or even home for the holidays, there is a desire to be ...
BETH ZIMMERMAN The key is for product manufacturers and developers is to maintain as much of the essential function...
BETH ZIMMERMAN Have some idea of how much you want to spend when you go into a contract with anyone. Allow approxim...
BETH YOUNG I always do landscape design with the functional needs of the homeowners foremost in my mind.
BETH YOUNG I think the confidence and optimism are there. I think they are really starting to believe. Confiden...
BETH YOUNG I heard her shout that she was good for 16. I told Simone I was going to hold her to it. She said, '...
BETH YOUNG There's still a lot of basketball to be played. We visit Allen on Tuesday and they're always tough. ...
BETH YOUNG We probably have six who can score 18 to 20 points. We have five to six which can easily do it.
BETH YOUNG We are the epitome of a true team. We don't have any superstars and everyone has stepped up in one w...
BETH YOUNG There's a lot more attention being given to board leadership than there was a couple of years ago. W...
BETH YOUNG You can't get down in this district. We started 0-2 and that makes it hard. You can't ever give up.
BETH YOUNG