A.G. Howard Quotes

Who wants a dream that's near-fetched?

Always challenge the old ways.

My mother taught me something at a young age - she said 'you are the company you keep.' To define yourself by some label or some level of resources - that's pretty shallow.

Be bold, but be fair. Don't give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail

There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

I do feel, in a sense, the rules of engagement for citizenship has changed, and we must encourage other people to speak up and to take action.

When you start on a new film, no matter how many you've done before that, I think I've done close to 80 films, but it's always kind of a fun adventure.

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.

The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.

The most valuable practice aid is patience.

It is the height of professionalism to be able to make an ordinary piece of music sound good. When playing routine melodic studies the player must treat them as if they are musical value.

For playing a man to a square to which it cannot be legally moved, the adversary, at his option, may require him to move the man legally, or to move the King.

I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.

Well, first of all, I'm worth every penny.

Mike Walker is the Hemingway of gossip.

Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.

War in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.

Yes, we're dreamers. We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don't want war. We don't want capitalism. We want a decent society.

Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

I've never believed in lower wages. Never. Never believed in lower wages, I've never believed in lower wages as an economic instrument.

If I were running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and be praying as many times as possible for a victory not only for Obama but also for the Democrats.

It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia.

An exile from home splendour dazzles in vain,Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again;The birds singing gayly, that came at my call,Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all.

I'm glad I stayed in school four years. It matured me as a man and as a basketball player.

I was bullied in first grade, and it's definitely not fun. But always tell somebody instead of holding it in. Communicate with people and just say, 'Hey, I'm being bullied. I need help.'

Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.

I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial arts.

Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear.

Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.

I have gone into yesterday and tomorrow and both were as real as today -- which is like the dreams of ghosts!

Every religion, in my opinion, has something to bring, and I think we all learn from everyone that there's no right, perfect way to look at something.

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

This bloke was so pissed, he thought his vomit had come to life!

I'm truly blessed to be where I am and accomplish what I have.

I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

Politics make me sick

We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.

The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

Judging by the sounds of general panic, I want a gun like that.

I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.

He’s a pagan! I’m an artist! We’re naturally sympathetic!

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

I have a plot, but not much happens.