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It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears abo...
HOWARD NEMEROV

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

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is cons...
HOWARD NEMEROV

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being una...
HOWARD NEMEROV

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
HOWARD NEMEROV

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible th...
HOWARD NEMEROV

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

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

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ...
HOWARD NEMEROV

I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is...
HOWARD NEMEROV

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

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.
HOWARD NEMEROV

The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being una...
HOWARD NEMEROV

I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound; but maybe it is o...
HOWARD NEMEROV

I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarel...
HOWARD NEMEROV

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is cons...
HOWARD NEMEROV

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), ...
HOWARD NEMEROV

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known ...
HOWARD NEMEROV

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake p...
HOWARD NEMEROV

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.
HOWARD NEMEROV

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.
HOWARD NEMEROV A vest as admired Voltiger had on, Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won, Whose artf...
LORD HOWARD "NED" HOWARD

A dream is the bearer of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.
HOWARD THURMAN

I think there is probably no better person to aspire to emulate than Steve Jobs and what he has done...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of c...
HOWARD GARDNER

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have popu...
HOWARD RHEINGOLD The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.
VERNON HOWARD Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
VERNON HOWARD It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
VERNON HOWARD Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not ...
VERNON HOWARD The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is hap...
VERNON HOWARD Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoiden...
VERNON HOWARD For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting ...
VERNON HOWARD Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a po...
VERNON HOWARD To change what you get, you must change who you are.
VERNON HOWARD All forms of self-defeating behavior are unseen and unconscious, which is why their existence is den...
VERNON HOWARD Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.
VERNON HOWARD A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. T...
VERNON HOWARD Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash...
VERNON HOWARD Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
VERNON HOWARD Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
VERNON HOWARD What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows ...
VERNON HOWARD Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the othe...
VERNON HOWARD Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.
VERNON HOWARD

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.
HARLAN HOWARD

Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
HOWARD HUGHES

On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

I was born on the other side of the tracks, in public housing in Brooklyn, New York. My dad never ma...
HOWARD SCHULTZ Things go bad after a divorce and often stay that way. It is rare for the parties to return placidly...
HOWARD JACOBSON I've waffled before. I'll waffle again.
HOWARD DEAN The issue is not abortion. The issue is whether women can make up their own mind instead of some rig...
HOWARD DEAN Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. ...
HOWARD DEAN From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created...
HOWARD DEAN At every turn when there has been an imbalance of power, the truth questioned, or our beliefs and va...
HOWARD DEAN

Mindfulness means being aware of how you're deploying your attention and making decisions about ...
HOWARD RHEINGOLD

There are customers we serve, and customers we service.
-Captain Andreyasn
HOWARD TAYLER

Are you done briefing the company yet?"

"We, um... Haven't gotten through the introductio...
HOWARD TAYLER

Air traffic control is going to have a steamy old fit on your dime, boy.

They can get in ...
HOWARD TAYLER

Oh, that's great. That way, when things have quieted down, and we come up for air, or money, or re-s...
HOWARD TAYLER

Being a mercenary, though... Hey, we just go wherever there's a mixture of money and trouble, and ev...
HOWARD TAYLER

New orders: Make sure everybody who doesn't want to live here is aboard in five minutes. We are leav...
HOWARD TAYLER

Maxim 6:
If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.

HOWARD TAYLER

Maxim 1:
Pillage, then burn.

-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Merc...
HOWARD TAYLER

Maxim 2:
A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn't know what's going on.
HOWARD TAYLER

Maxim 3:
An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.

-The Seventy Maxi...
HOWARD TAYLER

I have a terrible lifestyle. And I don't really see it changing. Maybe in 10 years I'll see ...
BRITTANY HOWARD

We will not know unless we begin.
HOWARD ZINN

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a ...
HOWARD AIKEN

May I now pass on to this Congress advice which I received recently from a fellow Vermonter - Either...
HOWARD AIKEN

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we wou...
HOWARD AIKEN

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
HOWARD AIKEN

Certainly the caffeine in coffee, whether it's Starbucks or generic coffee, is somewhat of a sti...
HOWARD SCHULTZ The Things that Cause a Quiet Life

My friend, the things that do attain
The happy li...
HENRY HOWARD Whatever you want, you have the power to attain it. The man or woman who calmly and matter-of-factly...
VERNON HOWARD

Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred...
HOWARD COBLE

We can't wait for Washington. Business leaders are going to have to galvanize their own constitu...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Business leaders cannot be bystanders.
HOWARD SCHULTZ

Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and...
HOWARD COBLE You are changed by the people you are closest to, and this has allowed me to forgive myself for the ...
HOWARD JACOBSON

For whatever reason, whenever I'm having a get-together, I'll turn on my projector and play ...
BRITTANY HOWARD

If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
HOWARD ZINN

My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven...
HOWARD SCHULTZ

In the 1960s, if you were a blue collar worker or uneducated, and you had an injury on the job, the ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many ...
TERRENCE HOWARD

You can't fatten the pig on market day.
JOHN HOWARD

Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.
HOWARD HENDRICKS

I have very close friends who are very devout Catholics, and I talked to them before the 'Da Vin...
RON HOWARD The most important thing in my life is Christ. He's more important than winning or losing or whe...
TIM HOWARD

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have ...
HOWARD COSELL Art is... a question mark in the minds of those who want to know what's happening.
AARON HOWARD If ignorance is bliss, then I'd hope to, one day, be MultiOrgasmic.
AARON HOWARD Responsible Drinking? Now that's an Oxymoron.
AARON HOWARD LIfe? LIfe? It's Death that makes life worth living for.
AARON HOWARD

I shove him back. “I can convince him.”
“What? By seducing him?” Morpheus scof...
A.G. HOWARD

He spins us both, wrapping us in his wings until I’m dazed and giggling.
“I wanted to l...
A.G. HOWARD The futures of Crackle and Hulu and so forth become more and more important as we connect to more an...
HOWARD STRINGER It's a brave new world.
HOWARD KURTZ Our lights are probably on until 3 in the morning because there is always somebody here doing someth...
ADAM HOWARD People like to see me play because I don't get in that much.
ADAM HOWARD It's something he has to do he's the point guard and the team has to listen to the point guard he te...
ADAM HOWARD Orlando talking is a big thing and we joke with him about it. Off the court he's shy but on the cour...
ADAM HOWARD I could tell he was gassed at the end of round two. I'll go even harder when I see someone is gassed...
ADAM HOWARD I was trying not to get shot on and it happened anyway. I thought I was going to get pinned there, b...
ADAM HOWARD It was a huge win for me. Now I just have to find a way to beat him at the league tournament.
ADAM HOWARD The trouble comes when we try to fashion our success to the outside world's specifications even thou...
HOWARD WHITMAN Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own go...
HOWARD WHITMAN I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few...
HOWARD HAWKS Through the door at the end of the hall, Bushrod could see daylight. Gray and sullen it was, but day...
HOWARD BAHR Diebold controls 20% of the nation's voting machines.. totals can apparently be manipulated from out...
HOWARD DEAN GOP Floating Idea to Push Out Moore so Governor Could Appoint Epstein ...
DAVID HOWARD “My Peregrination Cap,” he grumbles, straightening his tie and vest while wavering on w...
A.G. HOWARD Judging by the sounds of general panic, I want a gun like that.
HOWARD TAYLER I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothi...
HOWARD ZINN Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
VERNON HOWARD Country music is three chords and the truth.
HARLAN HOWARD Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism.
HOWARD DIETZ The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting p...
VERNON HOWARD Some people expect the door of opportunity to be opened with an electric eye.
HOWARD HENDRICKS Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at la...
VERNON HOWARD If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.
CURLY HOWARD I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that....
HOWARD STERN M-O-T-H-E-R
M is for the million things she gave me,
O means only that she's growing old,
T...
HOWARD JOHNSON You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.
RON HOWARD By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate...
VERNON HOWARD We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
VERNON HOWARD Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash...
VERNON HOWARD We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually ar...
VERNON HOWARD A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
HOWARD SCOTT We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
VERNON HOWARD Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our un...
VERNON HOWARD If you have a lemon, make lemonade.
HOWARD GOSSAGE Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
VERNON HOWARD Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family: Whatever you call it, whoever ...
JANE HOWARD I must acknowledge an interest, or rather a dismay, in discussing this 'family memoir,' for from exp...
RICHARD HOWARD Freedom begins as we become conscious of it.
VERNON HOWARD We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
VERNON HOWARD One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
SIDNEY HOWARD I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.
HOWARD BARKER The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have ...
HOWARD COSELL The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and ...
HOWARD BRENTON Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.
THOMAS HOWARD Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their thro...
HOWARD AIKEN At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical dif...
HOWARD AIKEN The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human ...
HOWARD AIKEN Community cannot long feed on itself, it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond: th...
HOWARD THURMAN It's ok for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly
HOWARD STERN Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond...
HOWARD THURMAN Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpo...
HOWARD THURMAN Don
HOWARD THURMAN Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the worl...
HOWARD THURMAN Life is a cement trampoline.
HOWARD NORDBERG A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval...
VERNON HOWARD A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no ...
HOWARD CROSBY I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful co...
HOWARD ZINN Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
HOWARD ZINN I've gotten to know John Kerry since the primaries. The reason I'm going out and working my you know...
HOWARD DEAN John Kerry's position and my position are not very different about what we would do. Interestingly e...
HOWARD DEAN First of all I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he'...
HOWARD DEAN Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them ...
HOWARD AIKEN Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them d...
HOWARD AIKEN Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever ...
JANE HOWARD Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
HOWARD SCOTT But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.
HOWARD ZINN Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.
HOWARD ZINN I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
HOWARD DIETZ The truth is that to enjoy acting one must be an exhibitionist at heart, one must revel in those exp...
LESLIE HOWARD I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whateve...
HOWARD GARDNER I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.
HOWARD COSELL We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of...
HOWARD CARTER Until fairly recently, Amish teachers would reprimand the student who raised his or her hand as bein...
HOWARD RHEINGOLD The Amish communities of Pennsylvania, despite the retro image of horse-drawn buggies and straw hats...
HOWARD RHEINGOLD Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after...
HOWARD DEAN People were very nice to me. They knew I didn't have the money to do figure-drawing classes, so ...
BYRON HOWARD The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the s...
HOWARD HUGHES Schoolchildren are not taught how to distinguish accurate information from inaccurate information on...
HOWARD RHEINGOLD If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you'...
HOWARD GARDNER I don't share the view that China and the U.S. need to reach some kind of strategic accommodatio...
JOHN HOWARD Contacts would bother me. I'm just not that used to them. I think glasses are a great accessory.
BRITTANY HOWARD When I occasionally indulge in sort of a 'look back' at highlights, it's so interesting ...
RON HOWARD When you're young and you're striving, it's all uphill, and it's easier to climb. Th...
RON HOWARD There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the a...
HOWARD RHEINGOLD The Coast Guard has long been known as the armed service that gets more done for less.
HOWARD COBLE Twilight - a time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from ...
HOWARD THURMAN Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.
HOWARD SCHULTZ In the United States today, the Declaration of Independence hangs on schoolroom walls, but foreign p...
HOWARD ZINN Starbucks has a role and a meaningful relationship with people that is not only about the coffee.
HOWARD SCHULTZ Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend ...
HOWARD SCHULTZ Starbucks is committed to evolving and enhancing our customer experience with innovative and wholeso...
HOWARD SCHULTZ Being confident is the key to life. Don't be afraid to be you! I'm super different from a lo...
LEO HOWARD I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion.
LEO HOWARD I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I d...
LEO HOWARD I was bullied in first grade, and it's definitely not fun. But always tell somebody instead of h...
LEO HOWARD It was fantastic playing Conan; it was such an experience to go out of the country and be this barba...
LEO HOWARD Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an ac...
LEO HOWARD Don't give in to all the cliques and popularity. It means nothing. I know super popular guys, an...
LEO HOWARD I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure...
LEO HOWARD If you're OK with being clumsy, it's funny. But if you are super embarrassed, people are goi...
LEO HOWARD So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.
TERRENCE HOWARD As the work proceeded we found that the western end of the cutting receded under the slope of the ro...
HOWARD CARTER These ancient huts were soon cleared of the rubbish covering them. I planned them, and removed them ...
HOWARD CARTER

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