Howland Quotes

#1. First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.

Aaron Sorkin

#2. Forget girls who died decades ago; words were ghosts. They were what haunted me.

Leila Howland

#3. There is a great deal of human nature in man.

Charles Kingsley

#4. We didn't kiss," I said. Jules cocked an eyebrow. "We brushed lips.

Leila Howland

#5. If you are one of the truly elect, be careful how you attain your eminence.

C.P. Cavafy

#6. Do not wait until you are rich before you start working for the Lord

Sunday Adelaja

#7. I never married, but if I had done so, I'm sure I'd have divorced the sod a long time ago. Life is simply too short to hang around with annoying people. That may be why I have so few friends. I'm sure my daughter concurs.

Pansy Schneider-Horst

#8. Code breaker Mabel Elliott's favorite quote was: It isn't life that matters! It's the courage we bring to it.

Hugh Walpole

#9. Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.

Bette Howland

#10. Jules hated it when I used "delicious" to describe anything but food, but that day he was nothing if not a sugar cone of melting sea salt and caramel gelato.

Leila Howland

#11. It always seemed like there was too much in real life I was supposed to be afraid of: drunk drivers, rapists, unwanted pregnancy, HPV, undercooked chicken, toxic shock syndrome, and a bad reputation.

Leila Howland

#12. Feelings find each other, I thought. Let one in and the others follow. At that moment it seemed that all our feelings were shimmering above us, around us, in a new and stunning constellation.

Leila Howland

#13. Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement, really should have their heads examined.

Lee Kuan Yew

#14. It wasn't fair. I wanted to take her to friend court. I wanted to sue her. But I could see the faces of the jury when it was revealed that her mother had just died. Died.

Leila Howland

#15. That's one thing about going to an all-girls' school your whole life: it's hard to believe that boys are people too.

Leila Howland

#16. My explosiveness, I really couldn't show it at UCLA. It's still there. It's always been there. It was not a lot of running. It was a half-court game. Coach Howland came from the Big East, and so you know that's a grind out game.

Shabazz Muhammad

#17. I wondered if I could make him laugh like that, if he was the kind of guy who believes that girls could also be funny.

Leila Howland

#18. It's not fair. Guys can embrace their fatness as a unique personality trait, but we girls have to sit on the very edge of chairs in our shorts so as not to reveal the back-of-the-leg cellulite we feel bad for having even though everyone does.

Leila Howland

#19. Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn't matter if they even happened.

Leila Howland

#20. Maybe what couldn't be named was just as real as what could be. Maybe sometimes love existed in the spaces in between.

Leila Howland

#21. And what if that news anchor is creepy? He's too smooth, and he has that hairpiece.

Leila Howland