Definition of Henry

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Definition of Henry
	Henry The unit of electric induction; the induction in a circuit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampere a second. Related Definitions: Ampere, At, Circuit, Current, Electric, Electro-Motive, Force, In, Induced, Inducing, Induction, Is, Of, One, Rate, Second, The, This, Unit, Volt, When, While

Henry Quotations

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Oscar Wilde

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
Alexis de Tocqueville

If a guy is over 25 percent jerk, he's in trouble. And Henry was 95 percent.
Lee Iacocca

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
Robert Louis Stevenson

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.
Norman MacCaig

Henry Fonda gave me a spanking during a scene in Spencer's Mountain.
Maureen O'Hara

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.
Leslie Fiedler

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.
Leslie Fiedler

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.
Chuck Jones

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.
Peter Fonda

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