Howard K. Smith (Howard Kingsbury Smith) Quotes

They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.

Howard K. Smith

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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.

W. E. B. Du Bois
- Up
- Women
- Home
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

Earl Weaver
- Little
- Matters
- Field
It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

Camille Claudel
- Men
- Art
- Myself
I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

E. L. Doctorow
- World
- God
- Done
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

Olin Miller
- Think
- You
- Boy
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

Walter Savage Landor
- Truth
- Politics
- Argument