A.G. Howard Quotes

I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a time out from technological progress as we know it.

When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage Its drifting in detachment down the road.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

Capitalism is not a perfect system. It may be better than all the other systems, but it's not a perfect system.

Suburbia is not going to run on biodiesel. The easy-motoring tourist industry is not going to run on biodiesel, wind power and solar fuel.

We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel.

I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish!

All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is denied.

When I hear that there are 5,000,000 working women in this country, I always take occasion to say that there are 18,000,000 but only 5,000,000 receive their wages.

You should forgive your enemies and if you haven't any, just forgive a few of your friends.

I'm on the air five hours, and I blurt out anything in my head. Dangerous? Maybe.

Always keep an 'out' in your hip pocket.

Remember, you fly an airplane with you head, not your hands and feet.

For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

The real spirit of Christmas lies in the life and mission of the Master.

Genuine effort is success.

You can't become another person if you're not self-aware.

If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.

Twenty-five years ago, the notion was you could create a general problem-solver software that could solve problems in many different domains. That just turned out to be totally wrong.

Hitler didn't travel. Stalin didn't travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn't want to have their orthodoxy challenged.

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies.

The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.

That's one thing I pride myself on is working hard in the weight room, working hard in practice, trying to become a better player.

Life is always difficult in proportion to its intensity and reality.

I reject the notion that human beings have a single intelligence, which can be drawn on for the full range of problem solving.

I'm not holding you against your will; I'm holding you against your car.

Does breakfast in bed count as a morning workout?

Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.

Every project has its own challenges and rewards. If it's not challenging, why do it?

The biggest communities in which young people now reside are online communities.

Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out how and where next I'll be steered.

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

Women were always complications, bless their perverse little hearts.