A.G. Howard Quotes

Currently, most States do not recognize within their borders concealed carry permits issued in other States.

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power

How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?...Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation...repeating rumors and stories which have not been submitted to the test of truth?

I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.

Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.

Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

Laughter is just like champagne -- only without the headache afterwards.

Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

I do take the threat of terrorism seriously. You cannot eliminate that threat or diminish that threat by bombing a country.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

Most of suburbia will end up in three ways: ruins, slums, salvage yards for materials.

Right now as an artist, what I want to do is be a part of works that are unignorable. I couldn't be less interested in how people receive it, honestly. As long as it's unignorable.

That is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life, running through the jungle in heels. Because also, mud was often times three feet deep, and that was full on for sure.

I think his greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man.

I'm vulnerable to criticism. Any artist is, because you work alone in your studio and, until recently, critics were the only way you'd get any feedback.

Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book.

The goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.

Collecting has been my great extravagance. It's a way of being. I collect for the same reason that I eat too much-I'm one of nature's shoppers.

I took the route favoured by all worldly failures and became a spiritual success.

I have accomplished little enough, but such as it is, it is the result of my own efforts.

You can control your choices but you can't control the outcome of those choices.

The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.

One must exploit the asynchronies that have befallen one, link them to a promising issue or domain, reframe frustrations as opportunities, and, above all, persevere.

While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.

Paint ideas, paint thought.

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.

I seem to be some sort of lightning rod. I just really irritate people, you know? I really do.

Once in awhile you have a thought, and you rhyme it.

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

Disputants often fare poorly when they each act greedily and deceptively.

The art of compromise centers on the willingness to give up something in order to get something else in return. Successful artists get more than they give up.

How can I wear the harness of toil And sweat at the daily round, While in my soul forever The drums of Pictdom sound?

A mediator is an impartial outsider who tries to aid the negotiators in their quest to find a compromise agreement.

Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

The clearer that division [of social media] is between it not being a reflection of reality, and being a complete make-believe world, the more we're helping ourselves.

Passion lies between one mark and the next, and also within all of them.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

Never traffic in unpracticed truth.

Keep your head up, keep your heart strong. Keep your mind set, keep your hair long.

I'm trapped inside of me and I don't go out at all. I go to bed at eight o'clock at night. I never go out during the week. I'm in psychotherapy four days a week, pretty heavy commitment to it.

Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.

The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.