#howard

You seem damn sure of yourself for a man your age?" "I am as old as I can be at my age. I don't know very much, but I know the water. ↗

— Howard Fast

#the-immigrants #age

They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years. ↗

— Jane Russell

#days #doing #every #every day #five

Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities--something best described as a profound vivacity, a continual and sincere response to all that she encountered in her path through life. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#beauty

Cabal regarded her with mild amusement. “Smile when you whisper,” he advised her. “You’re supposed to be flirting with me, if you recall?” She stared at him icily. Then suddenly her expression thawed and she smiled winsomely, her eyes dewy with romantic love. “Oh, sweetheart… somebody tried to kill you? Whosoever would do such a thing to my nimpty-bimpty snookums?” Cabal could not have been more horrified if she’d pulled off her face to reveal a gaping chasm of eternal night from which glistening tentacles coiled and groped. That had already happened to him once in his life, and he wasn’t keen to repeat the experience. “What?” he managed in a dry whisper. “Smile when you whisper,” she said, her expression fixed and blood-curdlingly coquettish. You’re supposed to be flirting with me, remember?” “Please don’t do that. ↗

— Jonathan L. Howard

#jonathan-l-howard #leonie-barrow #experience

I'm not going into personal details of meetings I have with anybody, be it John Howard or President Bush or President Putin or President Yeltsin, in years gone by, whoever it may be, I'm not going into that. ↗

— Alexander Downer

#bush #details #going #gone #howard

I think Christine and Chad are on the opposite extremes of the spectrum. Christine is a model victim, and Chad is a model perpetrator, and Howard is closer to the middle. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#christine #closer #extremes #howard #i

John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster. ↗

— Graham Chapman

#howard #human #john #kind #made

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#began #change #crash #his #howard

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

#afford #army #hires #howard #howard hughes

Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will. ↗

— Michael O'Donoghue

#event #filming #get #howard #hughes