Quotes About Howard

Howard then made Seabiscuit's entry for the Santa Anita Handicap. He left the jockey space blank.

Let out of his stall with the two men standing by, Seabiscuit head-butted Howard. Smith made his case in four sentences: "Get me that horse. He has real stuff in him. I can improve him. I'm positive

The first time I saw Werth in a Nationals uniform, it was like, 'Dude, this is weird'.

'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.

'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.

Not prayer nor Bible verse, nor scholarship nor wit, nor grant under seal nor statute law can alter the fact of villain blood. Not all his craft and guile can make him a Howard, or a Cheney, or a Fitzwilliam, a Stanley or even a Seymour: not even in an emergency.

Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.

Regrets at losing social or financial opportunities are both delusion and needless pain.

While he was pilloried for enforcing a severe regime of punishment to force them to look for jobs, he was trying behind the scenes to persuade the government to take another course entirely. He wanted tax breaks for those on welfare to encourage them to take work. This was his one big idea in the portfolio and he has cited it since as evidence that somewhere inside the Liberal Party the DLP was alive and well. But not very alive: the plan was killed off by Howard.

A minute later, the young Turk and Howard parted on frosty terms, not much warmed by Howard's twenty-pence tip, the only extra change he had in his pocket. It is on journeys like this – where one is so horribly misunderstood – that you find yourself longing for home, that place where you are entirely understood, for better or for worse.

Kiki turned to her husband with a thesis for a face, of which only Howard could know every line and reference.

L]ook, of course I know you and your family have beliefs,' began Howard uneasily, as if 'beliefs' were a kind of condition, like oral herpes.

The first movie I did that was inspired by true events was 'Apollo 13.'

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Adams

Perhaps we admire certain qualities in Rome only because we are Jews—just as our being Jews makes us the implacable enemies of other qualities that Rome embraces.

I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]

The Growth and Structure of His Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1968)

The Beginnings of Western Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992). Geocentric cosmology seems

recent popular biography by a fine science writer is James Gleick's Isaac Newton (New York: Pantheon Books, 2003)

The Mass Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994).

Drawing out Leviathan: Dinosaurs and the Science Wars (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001).

David Young, in his excellent book The Discovery of Evolution, strikes just the right note of balance in our interpretation of science; his words can serve as a coda for this chapter:

Steve Woolgar develops his views in confrontational style in Science: The Very Idea (London: Tavistock Publications, 1988

One very good introduction to the topic of scientific explanation is the chapter "Scientific Explanation" by Wesley C. Salmon in Salmon et al., Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1992).