A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.
HARLAN HOWARD Country music is three chords and the truth.
HARLAN HOWARD I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.
HARLAN HOWARD I usually start with a title or maybe a little rhyme or phrase.
HARLAN HOWARD Like [
HARLAN HOWARD A lot of songs you write are just for exercise -- just pencil sharpeners.
HARLAN HOWARD Work is both my living and my pleasure.
HARLAN HOWARD I'm always collecting emotions for future reference.
HARLAN HOWARD To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another wa...
HARLAN STONE Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a ...
HARLAN STONE Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority.
HARLAN STONE I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But t...
HARLAN COBEN I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a littl...
HARLAN COBEN 'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who sho...
HARLAN COBEN I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think...
HARLAN COBEN Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I ...
HARLAN COBEN I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
HARLAN COBEN In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
HARLAN COBEN I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
HARLAN COBEN The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I ke...
HARLAN COBEN When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don...
HARLAN COBEN You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, becaus...
HARLAN COBEN Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
HARLAN COBEN A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was m...
HARLAN COBEN What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the...
HARLAN COBEN In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. W...
HARLAN COBEN Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you...
HARLAN COBEN I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, I love to fool you a third time. And just when yo...
HARLAN COBEN More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
HARLAN COBEN K is for KENGHIS KHAN. _He_ was a very _nice_ person. History has no record of him. There is a moral...
HARLAN ELLISON The two most abundant things in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
HARLAN ELLISON Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughte...
HARLAN ELLISON I remember the days of sitting at book signings, playing with my pen when no one would come, and sti...
HARLAN COBEN Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about thre...
HARLAN MILLER The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.
HARLAN ELLISON You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is en...
HARLAN ELLISON I learned why they're called wonder drugs -- you wonder what they'll do to you.
HARLAN MILLER Sex is a momentary itch, love never lets you go
HARLAN ELLISON The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some pe...
HARLAN ELLISON Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.
HARLAN COBEN Let me back up a little and tell you why I prefer writing to real life: You can rewrite. A novel, fo...
HARLAN COBEN And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, ...
HARLAN COBEN This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments...
HARLAN COBEN Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the fi...
HARLAN COBEN I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. ...
HARLAN COBEN I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game....
HARLAN COBEN I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and ha...
HARLAN COBEN The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the ...
HARLAN COBEN I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than l...
HARLAN ELLISON The muse is not an angelic voice that sits on your shoulder and sings sweetly. The muse is the most ...
HARLAN COBEN Those men established and raised this franchise to new heights.
BOB HARLAN I don't think his legacy will ever shrink.
BOB HARLAN That's what changed the football fortunes of this franchise,
BOB HARLAN It gives them something a little special.
BOB HARLAN Everybody's asking me if he said this would be his last year. Ted did not say anything about that. H...
BOB HARLAN I want to answer their request. We listen to them. They are the owners. I also want them to know we ...
BOB HARLAN Lombardi's on a high pedestal and deserves to be.
BOB HARLAN He was very honored. I told him to look up there (the facade of Lambeau Field) and picture his name ...
BOB HARLAN (Favre) hasn't told me personally, and I had lunch with Mike and Ted earlier (Friday), and he hadn't...
BOB HARLAN Continuation of the salary cap was our No. 1 goal. Without it, the long-term viability of the Packer...
BOB HARLAN True Love burns the brightest, But the brightest flames leave the deepest scars.
HARLAN ELLISON I'm going to laugh and jeer and wiggle my ears at your death throes... You can OD on religion or do...
HARLAN ELLISON The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in ...
HARLAN MILLER Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
HARLAN ELLISON Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a ...
HARLAN STONE So far in 2006 we've had 17 calls, most in the past three to four weeks.
HARLAN MILLER It was very clear the judge was displeased that the commissioners have failed to do their job and ge...
HARLAN MILLER war in the streets.
HARLAN MILLER I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
HARLAN MILLER My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I...
HARLAN COBEN I hate being wrong, but I love it when I'm set straight.
HARLAN ELLISON [On love:] I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or th...
HARLAN ELLISON I will use big words from time to time, the meanings of which I may only vaguely perceive, in hopes ...
HARLAN ELLISON I don't care who's checking him, he'll get open.
ANDRE HARLAN I have no mouth, and I must scream.
HARLAN ELLISON I always said the calendar was working in our favor. If he was going to (retire), he would have told...
BOB HARLAN If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they...
HARLAN ELLISON That's what changed the football fortunes of this franchise. It was huge. He sent a message to the r...
BOB HARLAN That's what changed the football fortunes of this franchise. It was huge, ... He sent a message to t...
BOB HARLAN As long as you have the chairman (title) and you're the CEO, you're still in charge of the organizat...
BOB HARLAN A lot of it is strictly media speculation. There are all kinds of names thrown out there. Ted (Thomp...
BOB HARLAN When belief in a god dies, the god dies
HARLAN ELLISON People who can't get laid watch _Star Trek_ and eat Twinkies!
HARLAN ELLISON The female customer is used to a much higher level of detail and much more aesthetic.
HARLAN GARDINER Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled.
HARLAN ELLISON Getting into a fight with a popular senior. Pissing off a school teacher and the local chief of poli...
HARLAN COBEN You live among this ridiculous wealth and you get lost. You worry about nonsense like spirituality a...
HARLAN COBEN He's not the fastest guy. But he always gets open and makes the big catch. He runs the best routes I...
ANDRE HARLAN When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved i...
HARLAN COBEN And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that everyone is entitled to his or her opinio...
HARLAN ELLISON If you have a roof over your head, clothes on you back, and food in your mouth. Please don't tell me...
HARLAN JEFFERSON Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of co...
HARLAN ELLISON Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often s...
HARLAN MILLER Her smile shames the sun
HARLAN COBEN There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I forc...
HARLAN COBEN Did you have one of those days today, like a nail in the foot? Did the pterodactyl corpse dropped by...
HARLAN ELLISON Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look lik...
HARLAN ELLISON ..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.
HARLAN COBEN It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a da...
HARLAN ELLISON With regard to what the United States is doing on climate change, the actions we have taken are next...
HARLAN WATSON I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid
HARLAN ELLISON In these days of widespread illiteracy, functional illiteracy... anything that keeps people stupid i...
HARLAN ELLISON Outlining is not writing. Coming up with ideas is not writing. Researching is not writing. Creating ...
HARLAN COBEN The ugliest truth is still better than the prettiest of lies.
HARLAN COBEN I pretty much only wear Lilly Pulitzer ties because my best friend owns the company.
HARLAN COBEN Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpa...
HARLAN ELLISON There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.
HARLAN COBEN I told the seniors after the third game, 'This is what you've been busting your butts since June 1, ...
TR HARLAN It's not the dead even. They're gone. Nothing you can do about that. It's what's left behind - the e...
HARLAN COBEN Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.
HARLAN COBEN The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I...
HARLAN ELLISON If you put your hand in my pocket, you’ll drag back six inches of bloody stump.
HARLAN ELLISON HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE YOU SINCE I BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION...
HARLAN ELLISON There's a difference between climate and extreme weather, ... Our scientists continually tell us we ...
HARLAN WATSON The United States is opposed to any such discussions.
HARLAN WATSON We need to pursue our international efforts in a spirit of cooperation - not coercion - with a true ...
HARLAN WATSON but I can't guarantee it's going to continue.
HARLAN WATSON One can argue whether it's slowing down fast enough, but it is slowing down. We're doing better than...
HARLAN WATSON There are many, many different ideas. People are not yet ready to move ahead under the convention. T...
HARLAN WATSON We're going to resist it, obviously.
HARLAN WATSON We are working hard on some of the advanced technologies ... but the development and deployment of t...
HARLAN WATSON A targets and timetables approach will not work for us.
HARLAN WATSON Preemption is and always will be a potentially useful tool, but it's not something you want to trot ...
HARLAN ULLMAN You have this simultaneous effect, rather like the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima, not taking days or ...
HARLAN ULLMAN For example, we are dependent on India for much of our software. So is that a vulnerability? Is that...
HARLAN ULLMAN The gesture, albeit insulting, had no sexual meaning, did not appeal to anyone's prurient interest, ...
HARLAN STONE To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another wa...
HARLAN STONE We really need to know more about the radiation environment on the Moon, especially if people will b...
HARLAN SPENCE An insolvent company—in this case, Enron—is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.
HARLAN LOEB An insolvent company - in this case, Enron - is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.
HARLAN LOEB An insolvent company — in this case, Enron — is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.
HARLAN LOEB An insolvent company in this case, Enron is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.
HARLAN LOEB An insolvent company -- in this case, Enron -- is not allowed to make payments to stockholders.
HARLAN LOEB Specific design needs to come into play for the female golfer. For example, women's golf clubs are a...
HARLAN GARDINER I took it as a challenge. For us, the move to address the (Girl) market directly, head-on, really co...
HARLAN GARDINER There's a much higher level of organization in our Girl line.
HARLAN GARDINER K is for "Kenghis Khan"; He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral i...
HARLAN ELLISON Bigfoot Networks products will infuse online gaming with blazing speed, making them a ton more fun. ...
HARLAN BEVERLY We are to online games what 3D video cards are to graphics: essential. Eventually, we plan to comple...
HARLAN BEVERLY We did not quite get all of the alignments we wanted, but we did do some things right. We put oursel...
GARY HARLAN You look at the match going in on paper and figure, this one and this one we don't have a chance of ...
GARY HARLAN Comedy is, of course, closely associated with eggs.
HARLAN TARBELL In sum," Midlife said, giving the room his best you-the-jury baritone, "Our defense will be...?" He ...
HARLAN COBEN The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil ...
JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare. Nor should this Court, ord...
JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ord...
JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, domina...
JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN The humblest is the peer of the most powerful.
JOHN MARSHALL HARLAN Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.
COLONEL HARLAN SANDERS There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.
COLONEL HARLAN SANDERS Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it.
D. HARLAN WILSON All of these top hospitals share eight common characteristics that drive their ability to deliver fa...
HARLAN M. KRUMHOLZ Over eight years there was only a 2 percent difference between heart disease among siblings with and...
HARLAN M. KRUMHOLZ Most of the innovations are about working smarter, not necessarily harder or with more staff. It is ...
HARLAN M. KRUMHOLZ 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 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