Howe's Quotes

#1. Forgetting what it's like to suffer can be a good thing, since suffering can make people too cutthroat for society's good. But suffering also breeds certain capacities that are easily lost, such as the ability to focus and a willingness to engage with conflict.

Ben Ryder Howe

#2. I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

Fanny Howe

#3. Maybe this is what it's like for all only children: To love the family that isn't almost as much as the one that is.

James Howe

#4. So, this is a rabbit, I thought. He sort of looks like Chester, only he's got longer ears and a shorter tail. And a motor in his nose.

James Howe

#5. In Virgil's account of the good housewife, who rises early in order to measure out the work of the household, and in Solomon's description of the thrifty woman of his time, one sees the value set upon feminine industry and economy in times far removed from our own.

Julia Ward Howe

#6. Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

E.W. Howe

#7. I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession.

John Howe

#8. Everyone hates a martyr; it's no wonder martyrs were burned at the stake.

E.W. Howe

#9. Just because you don't believe it[] [ ... ]doesn't mean that it's not true.

Katherine Howe

#10. Alexander von Humboldt's wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person's stunning new translation makes the wonders of this classic accessible to the English-language world of the present.

Daniel Walker Howe

#11. In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.

Fanny Howe

#12. George Smith shows how many of the prophet's followers embraced plural marriage during a period when the LDS Church was emphatically denying the practice ... [and he tells this in] a lucid writing style.

Daniel Walker Howe

#13. When I'm with other people who inspire my silliness or sense of humor, I'm funny. When I sit down to write, it's hard not to be funny.

James Howe

#14. There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.

Gordie Howe

#15. A women could never be President. A condidate must be over 35, and where are you going to find a woman who will admit she's over 35?

E.W. Howe

#16. Soundwaves. It's the difference between one stillness and another stillness.

Susan Howe

#17. The ring comes whenever it will
because it's dark
where the mountains mother
and being stuck in one spot
is something to ring bells about

Fanny Howe

#18. Only by being present can you be happy. Too much attention to the past and the future takes the now away. And once it's gone, you never get it back.

Katherine Howe

#19. Sometimes kids just act impulsively, but it's because we have strong feelings, not because we're trying to make trouble.

James Howe

#20. The Lord works in mysterious ways. What's true to one man, a wonder and a marvel, might not seem so to another, as God didn't intend it for him.

Katherine Howe

#21. Her freckles were delectable. Most fellows didn't care for freckles as a rule, thinking they were tough-looking. But Betty's were appealing. Like cake batter you could wipe off with your thumb, buttery and sweet.

Katherine Howe

#22. There's no rage like old lady rage, just as there's no tenderness like old lady tenderness.

Tina Howe

#23. Impossible," he said "I am in love with my food source.

James Howe

#24. There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.

E.W. Howe

#25. I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read children's books, adult books, current authors, and classics, but I like fiction the most.

James Howe

#26. We tell each other stories to help each other live. That's why I read poetry. I read poetry to stay alive. That's why I went to poetry in the first place, that's why I stay with it, that's why I'll never leave it.

Marie Howe

#27. God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.

Katherine Howe

#28. Joe: Oo, Brittany "Aren't I Fabulous?" Hobson?
Addie: She's not that bad.
Joe: Brittany "All the Boys Like Me, I'm so Popular I Could Die" Hobson.
Addie: Joe!

James Howe

#29. Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action.

Reuel Howe

#30. I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little.

John Howe

#31. It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

Julia Ward Howe

#32. Overall I can fairly safely say Bobby Orr impressed me more than anybody with his tremendous talents. In Bobby's first N.H.L. game he layed the lumber to Gordie's head. Later Howe retalliated and wanted to let the kid know he wasn't washed up yet.

Gordie Howe

#33. There's a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That's the fascination of archives. There's still a bodily trace.

Susan Howe

#34. No man's credit is ever as good as his money.

E.W. Howe

#35. You don't have to have a boyfriend
or a girlfriend to know love.
Just open up your heart and
let the world in. Your heart
is bigger than you can imagine,
and so is the world, and so,
granddaughter, are you.
- Addie's grandmother

James Howe

#36. Originality is the discovery of how to shed identity before the magic mirror of Antiquity's sovereign power.

Susan Howe

#37. If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.

E.W. Howe

#38. The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

E.W. Howe

#39. The Stage Office" on Mount Washington housed the first year-round weather observatory in the 1870s. It was used again when observers re-occupied the summit in 1933. Max Engelhart was serving snacks here when a storm overtook him in October 1926.

Nicholas S. Howe

#40. Legendary rock musician. Poet laureate of the working class. Voice of America's conscience.

Harrison Howe

#41. Once at a potent leader's voice I stayed; Once I went back when a good monarch prayed; Mortals, howe'er we grieve, howe'er deplore, The flying shadow will return no more.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#42. When you're living through it, though, especially when you are twelve and you think the whole world is changing until you realize it isn't the world, it's you, no piece seems little. It's all so big you think it can kill you. But it doesn't. Which is why the story goes on.

James Howe

#43. It's one of the reasons [professional politicians] why people's confidence in the electoral system has declined so much. They have all become shadowy political creatures

Geoffrey Howe

#44. To me, hockey was always tremendous fun. That's what kept me going for so long. I simply love to play hockey.

Gordie Howe

#45. ( ... ) You're very young."
"No one's young anymore. Anyone who's survived this long is ancient."
There's a smile pulling up one corner of his mouth.

Stephenie Meyer

#46. Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story ... told for the body to forget what it once loved.

Marie Howe

#47. One of the advantages, one of the special things, about playing in Detroit or Montreal is guys like Gordie Howe walk in the room. I didn't know he was here tonight, it was kind of a coincidence to get that assist on a night that he's here.

Steve Yzerman

#48. How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.

Julia Ward Howe

#49. And that's an even greater love: to love somebody when he's a little ... worn at the edges.
- Teddy Bear

James Howe

#50. Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

James Howe

#51. Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep things very simple.

James Wong Howe

#52. Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.

E.W. Howe

#53. One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

E.W. Howe

#54. The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

E.W. Howe

#55. Sometimes it's not how much light you use to get an effect, it's how
little you use and still make it work. There are a lot of rules to be
broken in photography, and you've got to have courage.

James Wong Howe

#56. The first time I met Wayne Gretzky ... he never said anything back.

Gordie Howe

#57. I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.

Julia Ward Howe

#58. You can't do anything unless you do it yourself. And usually you can't do it yourself very well.

E.W. Howe

#59. There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

E.W. Howe

#60. Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.

E.W. Howe

#61. Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

E.W. Howe

#62. Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

Julia Ward Howe

#63. I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.

Susan Howe

#64. The tools I handle are words. They may be unappreciated or misunderstood, but they tell us who we are.

Tina Howe

#65. I propose going up the Delaware, In order to be nearer this place than I should be by taking The course of the Chesapeake which I once intended."1 - William Howe, July 16, 1777

Michael Harris

#66. When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.

E.W. Howe

#67. Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

E.W. Howe

#68. There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.

Geoffrey Howe

#69. Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.

Irving Howe

#70. Many a man is saved from being a thief by finding everything locked up.

E.W. Howe

#71. When we think we have something to say we are usually wrong. We are fooling ourselves. Trip into discovery. Don't write what you know, discover something new.

Marie Howe

#72. Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.

E.W. Howe

#73. Brian Howe had no mother, so he won't be missed.

Mary Bell

#74. An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.

E.W. Howe

#75. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but names will break our spirit.

James Howe

#76. Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

Joseph Howe

#77. Sometimes I think it's easier to stand up to the whole school
or the whole world even
than it is to stand up to one person, especially if that person really matters to you.

James Howe

#78. The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

Irving Howe

#79. Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.

Irving Howe

#80. Life is short and there will always be dirty dishes, so let's dance.

James Howe

#81. If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.

Fanny Howe

#82. When she said that last part, she raised her eyebrows, or at least, I thought that's what she was trying to do. The Botox made it so all she could do was widen her eyes until they bulged.

Katherine Howe

#83. When a Girl's on a pedestal, there's nothing some people would like better than to shove her off it, just to know what kind of noise she'd make when she shattered.

Katherine Howe

#84. There's no such thing as a wasted wish.

James Howe

#85. The well-being of the British people and the health of our economy are far more important than any government's commitment to a particular strategy, but to change course now would be fatal to the whole counter-inflation strategy.

Geoffrey Howe

#86. In Maureen Owen's perfectly titled Erosion's Pull, words and lines map, unmap, and revamp our everyday postcontemporary geographies: ironies and ambiguities, surrealistic conundrums, kaleidoscopic comedies, puzzlements, certain and uncertain loves and losses.

Susan Howe

#87. Every poem holds the unspeakable inside it. The unsayable ... The thing that you can't really say because it's too complicated. It's too complex for us. Every poem has that silence deep in the center of it.

Marie Howe

#88. Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

E.W. Howe

#89. Stranger! henceforth be warned; and know that pride,
Howe'er disguised in its own majesty,
Is littleness; that he, who feels contempt
For any living thing, hath faculties
Which he has never used; that thought with him
Is in its infancy ...

William Wordsworth

#90. What must it be like
to move through your days always
in step with a friend?

James Howe

#91. Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.

E.W. Howe

#92. If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

E.W. Howe

#93. As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.

Julia Ward Howe

#94. A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.

E.W. Howe

#95. [Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

James Howe

#96. A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

E.W. Howe

#97. I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.

Fanny Howe

#98. Like an unfinished symphony, her story played on my mind for most of my life. It would rock to the tune of the passage of time, an adagio of high notes, low notes an illusive movements. Then when I least expected it, I happened upon the missing notes in the life of Charlotte Howe Taylor.

Sally Armstrong

#99. Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.

E.W. Howe

#100. I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

E.W. Howe