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.
-
I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
-
Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.
-
The great thing is that I'm getting my revenge on everybody who treated me badly in high school. The bad thing is I had to go back to high school to do it.
-
...it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.
-
The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.
-
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.
