Charles Hamilton Houston Quotes

The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.

Charles Hamilton Houston

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 3, 1895 - April 22, 1950

Topics

TimeHateMenWarMindLaw

I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.

Meg Cabot

ProfessionalWriteLeaveUsedJust

What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.

John Hughes

DoingDirectorMakingThoughShould

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Robert Louis Stevenson

LoveGivingYouLovingNeverGive

Celebrity gets you access to world leaders.

Michael Douglas

WorldYouCelebrityLeadersAccess

I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

Alyssa Milano

LifeWalkYourselfYouAngelsOut

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Robert Crais

IdeasStoryBlackWhiteCardsWall

My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.

Mike Myers

BeerParentsMeEatingKidAlways

My father was the youngest of seven, and nobody lived to be 60. And so we were always sitting shiva in my house, and my father would say, 'Life goes on.'

Judy Blume

LifeFatherHouseNobodySitting

Film is a temporal medium as much as it is a visual medium: you're playing with time, and you don't have that ability where someone can pause at home. That's such a fundamental part of what makes filmmaking exciting to me. I don't really have as much interest in any other medium. I just like the control.

Jon Watts

HomeTimeMeControlSomeoneYou

You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive until you see a Dick Dale concert.

Dick Dale

LivePassionMeWritingStoryYou

I was always afraid to write music.

Dory Previn

MusicWriteAlwaysAfraid

I find teenage girls endlessly funny.

Chris Lilley

FunnyFindTeenage GirlsTeenage

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