Houstan Quotes & Sayings

The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art. — Kurt Vonnegut

Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's. — Muhammad Ali

The churn of stale words in the heart again
love love love thud of the old plunger
pestling the unalterable
whey of words — Samuel Beckett

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it. — Stefan Hell

Every time I see you, the only thing that is on my mind is
"Grab her. Kiss her. — Subhasis Das

All this time she'd thought it God's will that she be a spinster. She had grown content with that expectation, taking satisfaction in the wisdom she'd gained through her experience with Stephen. No man would dupe her again. But what if living alone was never part of God's plan for her? What if she chose that life because it was safe - because she was afraid? — Karen Witemeyer

I sort of miss everybody I told about. — J.D. Salinger

We feel and know that we are eternal. — Baruch Spinoza

Q. This may be a bit gruesome, but ... if someone's DNA suddenly vanished, how long would that person last? — Randall Munroe

I pity the village where no one is a saint, but I also pity the village where everyone is a saint! — Nikos Kazantzakis

On the second floor was the office in which Houston pounded an ancient typewriter with two fingers, always setting an example of unceasing hard work for his admiring students. They had no hint of the fact that their hard-driving dean had contracted tuberculosis while serving as a GI in France in Word War I. Houstan always seemed vibrant and impassioned in the chase for justice as he tried to expose his students to everything relating to the law that might give them an advantage.
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"I never worked hard until I got to the Howard Law School and met Charlie Houston," Marshal told me. "I saw this man's dedication, his vision, his willingness to sacrifice, and I told myself, 'You either shape up or ship out.' When you are being challenged by a great human being, you know that you can't ship out."
So Houston rescued Marshall and launched him into a career as one of the greatest lawyers in American history. — Carl T. Rowan

A very dear friend of mine great actress named Wendy Rich Stetson was very active in the theater department at Amherst and I went to all the plays she was in, and it became very clear to me that what she was doing was something I wanted to be doing. — John Cariani