A.G. Howard Quotes

Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.

I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.

I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty.

If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions.

I love taking the ball from other people. It's like taking their manhood.

It took me a while to realize I'm an NBA player.

As long as we keep winning, I'm happy.

I haven't really reached my peak yet.

When I make exciting plays, it's usually because I was in the right place at the right time.

A lot of teams made a mistake in the NBA draft.

I'm pretty athletic. I do things sometimes even I can't believe.

I wasn't expecting to do what I'm doing now...I've grown as a player and as a man.

A lot of people think Utah is a bad place to play, but hell nah.

The world was divided into two groups: those who showered at night, and those who showered in the morning.

Sweeney: I can just see all you tough young soldiers cuddling together. Richard: Not cuddling, huddling. There's a difference.

A thousand thoughts ran through my mind. Well, at least six or seven, anyway, because a thousand thoughts are a lot. Try counting your own thoughts and see how long it takes you to get to a thousand.

He supposed he knew, rationally, that she wasn't the prettiest woman in the world, but if his eyes saw any imperfections, his heart didn't care.

Death isn't peaceful; it is just nothing. Everything is gone. No more sunrises, no more hopes, no more fears. Nothing.

Are you making fun of my hero complex?' Yeah.

Honey, the only experts in PMS are men. That's why men are so good at fighting wars; they learned Escape and Evade at home.

His mouth was hot and hungry, and he kissed the way no man should kiss and still be allowed to run free.

Oh, is that what's in the box? You threw my engagement ring at me?

What are you doing?” she cried in protest. “Playing,” he said, the single word rough, almost guttural.

Cows are the Devil's handmaidens.

Hormones were as potent as whiskey, and twice as sneaky.

Was the period of happiness worth the unhappiness that followed a breakup? Most people seemed to think so, because they got on the love train time and time again.

It was just a kiss – " "Yeah, and King Kong was just a monkey.

I've finally learned not to want things I cannot have.

Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need.

None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.

Hindsight is common and bland as boiled potatoes.

To fear the bourgeois is bourgeois.

Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?

To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.

The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.

It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about an unfortunate bone structure and a healthy head of hair.

We must rediscover the habit of thinking the best of each other

There is only one opinion poll that I am interested in and that is the one that will take place on election day.

Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.

I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.

NaNo[ National Novel Writing Month] is an awesome opportunity to stretch your writing muscles and gives you permission to write in a way you probably wouldn't do in a normal circumstance.

M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing.

Time reveals all translation to be paraphrase.

Life is but a web spun of ghosts and dreams and illusions.

My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecillic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul.

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

The sea-road is good for wanderers and landless men. There is quenching of thirst on the grey paths of the winds, and the flying clouds to still the sting of lost dreams.

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.

The printed page was like wine to me.