James Howell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
-
To this day, some of my closest friends say, 'Gaga, you know, everything's great. You're a singer; your dreams have come true.' But, still, when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up, it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.
-
I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
-
The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
-
One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
-
Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.
-
A potential person is not a person, any more than an acorn is an oak tree. I don't think women should have to give birth just because a sperm met an egg.
-
Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
-
First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.
-
Before competition, I start to question things. I don't know why it happens, but you've got to control it so you don't get too far out of the race.
-
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
-
In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
-
I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.
-
My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
-
I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize you can do anything if you want to bad enough.
-
The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.
-
Facebook? I have no clue about it. MySpace, none of that. I'm the worst.
-
The Indians are finding the gaps like a pin in a haystack.
-
Many adult book authors supplement their income by teaching at the college level. Full-time professors fare well, but pay for adjunct professors is notoriously shabby. Children's book authors have a sweeter deal. We're invited by schools, libraries, law firms, and Fortune 500 companies to share our best writing tips and strategies.
-
Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
-
I think the biggest thing that I have to do is to remind people that poetry is there for us to turn to not only to remind us that we're not alone - for example, if we are grieving the loss of someone - but also to help us celebrate our joys. That's why so many people I know who've gotten married will have a poem read at the wedding.
-
Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
-
Charles is Charles. Wale is Wale. It's two separate entities that have nothing to do with each other and probably will never have anything to do with each other and I wish him the best.
-
Neither go to a wedding nor a christening unbid.
