Howard Dwaine Dorough Quotes
There have been bumps, but everything has happened for a reason - maybe apart from the loss of some loved ones - and we have always tried to find a positive from it.
Quotes to Explore
-
I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
-
I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.
-
I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
-
I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
-
It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
-
If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
-
It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
-
I liked animals better than people. That's one of the reasons I wanted to be a vet - then I found out that every pet had a person that owned 'em.
-
I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
-
I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
-
I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
-
My awkward stage extended well into high school.
-
One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
-
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
-
The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
-
Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
-
I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
-
Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
-
People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
-
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
-
Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.
-
It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.
-
Milk every moment for all the pleasure you can get from it.
-
There have been bumps, but everything has happened for a reason - maybe apart from the loss of some loved ones - and we have always tried to find a positive from it.
