E. W. Howe Quotes

Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

E. W. Howe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 3, 1853 - October 3, 1937

Topics

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Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

Andrew Johnson

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We just assumed that Walter Cronkite was unbiased. In hindsight, it is clear that Walter Cronkite was biased and that he used feigned objectivity as the cudgel to change the American narrative from being a right of center one to being a left of center one.

Andrew Breitbart

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What is the difference between the novelist and the liar? At some moments, I have often wondered.

Amitava Kumar

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A great opera house isn't run by a director, but by a great administrator.

Steven Berkoff

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Sam Snead had perhaps the most stylish solution to the balding golfer: A snappy fedora that became his signature style, so much so that many never knew he was tonsorially bereft.

Steve Rushin

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I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.

Tom Ford

BeautyMeThinkWillDecadeAlways

Instead of candidates hiring people, like yours truly, to create campaign media that works on both conscious and subconscious levels to sway the voting public, what if all TV ads were, by law, only allowed to feature the candidate, with, say, the American flag as the backdrop, alone, speaking directly to the camera?

Ron Howard

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Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

Roman Coppola

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So much of the world is digital.

Michael Tubbs

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I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

Douglas Wilson

DesignPlanAlwaysStickOpinionated

Rather than thinking of ourselves as a computer, and trying to give you computer-like functionality, it's better to start from the understanding that this is a pair of glasses, and say, 'How smart can we make these glasses for you?'

Astro Teller

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The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Peter Drucker

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