Quotes of Howard - somelinesforyou

“ The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. ”

- Paul Theroux

“ I'm from New York, so I'm a big Howard Stern fan. ”

- Stephen Root

“ I did not do such a great job restraining myself. But if Howard can do better than me and restrain himself, I think he's going to do the other roles of a chairman extraordinarily well. ”

- Edward G. Rendell

“ I think that people like the Howard Sterns, the Bill O'Reillys and to a lesser degree the bin Ladens of the world are making a horrible contribution. ”

- Sean Penn

“ I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck. ”

- Michelle Pfeiffer

“ Howard Dean's statgements break a 50-year record in which Presidents, Republicans and Democrates, members of Congress of both parties have supported our relationship with Israel. ”

- Joseph Lieberman

“ Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it. ”

- Ted Morgan

“ After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks. ”

- Michael J. Fox

“ Frank Howard of the Nats is the only active player who can hit his weight and still have a respectable batting average ”

- Leonard Robert Davids

“ I could never do a show, or be a personality like Howard Stern, where you take all that heat from critics. What he does, he does, but the critical heat would crucify me. ”

- Chuck Barris

“ It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive. ”

- Walter Kane

“ Howard Roark laughed. He stood naked at the edge of a cliff. ”

- Ayn Rand

“ I would love to work with Ron Howard. I think he is brilliant. I love the stories that he chooses. They're always very personal and intense. He loves a lot of emotion, and he's so well equipped to pull all of that out of the actors. I really love that kind of thing and I think that's what movies should be about. ”

- Tippi Hedren

“ I don't know that I had any particular influence, but when I came into the business my idols were people like John Ford and Willy Wyler and Howard Hawkes, later on Joseph Mankiewicz and others like that. But I don't know that I picked up, necessarily, anything… ”

- Robert Wise

“ The guy wrote this great piece great character and wanted somebody to carry that story. Or Jerry Bruckheimer, thinking I can do anything - It's exciting, you know. Michael Mann calling me up and saying, 'What do you think about playing Howard Cosell?' That's a leap of some kind of faith or whatever it is. ”

- Jon Voight

“ The way I could sell the most records was suggested to me by James Newton Howard, is to do an album of piano instrumentals with orchestra. Put a handsome guy on the cover, give him a name like Brian Hamilton, call it Starstreams and put it out without my name on it. ”

- Randy Newman

“ A number of plastic surgeons are claiming that looking at John Kerry now, as opposed to a few months ago, they believe he's had Botox shots. They claim a number of his worry lines have vanished. They haven't vanished, just Howard Dean is wearing them now. ”

- Jay Leno

“ Howard Dean is a cruel and extremist demagogue. And Howard Dean is as ignorant on John Ashcroft as he is on national security. If this cruel, loudmouth extremist is the cream of the Democrat crop, next November's going to make the 1984 election look like a squeaker. ”

- Tom Delay

“ The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon… ”

- Daniel J. Boorstin

“ It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love… ”

- Joan Didion
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