James Howe Quotes

I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.

James Howe

• Up
• Writing
• Words
• Growing
• Author

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• When I was maybe 22, 23 years old or so, I was sort of floating in between New Japan, Ring of Honor, TNA - not really committed to one place.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Honor
  • New
  • Ring

• I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.

  

  J. Cole
  • Different
  • Why
  • Black

• About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Job
  • Game

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Job
  • Interesting
  • Persistence

• I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Time
  • Long
  • Painting

• Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Interested
  • Project
  • Machine

• I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Thought
  • Scared
  • Floating

• I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Hate
  • Always
  • Again

• A lot of times people hide their quirks when they're first getting to know a person.

  

  Kali Hawk
  • People
  • Know
  • First

• My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.

  

  Halsey
  • Mom
  • Issue
  • Ever

• They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Time
  • Long
  • School

• During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Children
  • Political
  • Small

• We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Great
  • Dreams

• My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Children
  • School
  • Bad

• I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • Think
  • Now

• I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Football
  • Hair
  • Street

• My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mom

• The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was, 'Let's explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let's explore so we can become more powerful.'

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Country

• The fingers feel the lines, they prod the space - your ageing face,The face that was once so beautiful, is still there but unrecognisable...

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
  • Beautiful
  • Space

• One day, when I was still living at home, a friend told 'Texas' Jean Valli about me. She was originally from Syracuse, N.Y., and lived in New Jersey but sang country. One night, she had me come up on stage where she was performing. I sang 'My Mother's Eyes,' and she was knocked out.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Up
  • Country
  • Home

• I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Up
  • Water
  • Speed

• I've been lucky that I've performed with a lot of the classical people I've wanted to work with so I'd like to do something that people didn't see coming. Like Madonna, or being Welsh - the Tom Jones thing. Or somebody suggested N-Dubz - that would be brilliant!

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • People
  • Work

• I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.

  

  James Howe
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Words