Howdunit Quotes

#1. A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.

M.J. Rose

#2. It makes you feel good when a movie works. Usually when I see an old movie I've made, I say to myself, 'Oh God, why did I do this?' and 'Why didn't I change that?' and things like that.

Warren Beatty

#3. As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

Max Beerbohm

#4. It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.

Daniel Boone

#5. Daring to wear something different takes effort.

Miuccia Prada

#6. In the end the great truth will have been learned that the quest is greater than what is sought, the effort finer that the prize (or rather, that the effort is the prize), the victory cheap and hollow were it not for the rigor of the game.

Benjamin Cardozo

#7. Men seek rest in a struggle against difficulties; and when they have conquered these, rest becomes insufferable.

Blaise Pascal

#8. Time
He flexes like a whore
Falls wanking to the floor
His trick is you and me, boy

David Bowie

#9. Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

Bill Watterson

#10. Music was always the distraction, so it was the obvious choice to pursue. My dad always said to find a job I love to do, that way it wouldn't feel like a job. So I did that.

Jason Mraz

#11. There is a terrible garrulousness in most American writing, legacy of the old Frontier.

Gore Vidal

#12. There is nothing more meaningful than being true to yourself and finding your own voice. Follow your heart and don't let anyone discourage you.

Jane Fulton Alt

#13. I had great control, I never missed hitting the other's fellow bat.

Bill Terry

#14. Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets
loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet today
the institutions on which community depends are crumbling in all the
techno-societies. The result is a spreading plague of loneliness.

Alvin Toffler