A.G. Howard Quotes

I am unable to rouse much interest in any highly civilized race, country or epoch, including this one.

When I cannot stand alone, it will be time to die.

It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

No man can be convinced when he will not.

I reckon if I ever marry, she will have to be a strong woman in a circus or something.

Don't you think that as a people, Americans have less poetry, real poetry, in their souls than any other nations?

In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.

What always was must always be.

I have put off the past like a worn-out cloak.

I see in the papers where Roy Guthrie committed suicide. Why, I wonder?

It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.

I became a writer in spite of my environments.

Wits and swords are as straws against the wisdom of the Darkness.

It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .

3-D is a truly exciting possibility.

I didn't go to school three years for nothing. It was something that was understood. Even though I went to play baseball, one day I would come back and get my degree.

My father always said that if you want oranges, you have to go to where the oranges grow.

Dating black women will ruin your life

There's no excuse to hit a woman... Ever. Not even in a movie role, because you might really like it. And then what?

I just wanted to be a scientist

You just drop a character like this that and the other and it's done.

I found from working on the film that I am a bigot, at times. And that I am also a coward, at times.

The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.

I am an engineer, but what I find important and necessary is that you just learn things as you go along.

Don't just view me as an actor.

I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know

I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don't realize.

The Oscar is the fantasy that you're afraid to believe in, but in the secrecy of your dark room, you dream and wait for it.

When you feel betrayed by someone that you trust the most... As an actor, you look for something that's going to let you express some of your inner emotions and anger.

I'm damn near 37 years old, and I'm jumping up and down on the bed like my 10-year-old. I was a wild man

I want to do things in my community, get out of the public eye, just be normal. You get your 15 minutes of fame, I hear, and I've had 14. The clock's ticking.

I've been number two in films for donkey's years.

Don't nurse your dreams, Rosy. You can't help having them, but don't nurse them. If you nurse your dreams, they tend to come true.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

Self awakening enables you to see the human scene as it is, not as it appears to be, which frees you of its chaos.

You need only choose ... then keep choosing as many times as necessary. That is all you need do. And it is certainly something you can do. Then as you continue to choose, everything is yours.

It is wise to seek immortality for time defeats all other ambitions.

I have been maturing as a teacher.

Gardening is an art form, but it has lost its sense of history.

Gardens are our link with the divine.

When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of his generation and one of the biggest political men of our country.

One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.

Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president.