Howell Davis quotes

“Hark ye, you Cocklyn and la Bouche, I find by strengthening you, I have put a rod into your hands to whip myself, but I am still able to deal with you both; but since we met in love, let us part in love, for I find that three of a trade can never agree.”
-- Howell Davis

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“All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.”

“My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.”

“I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.”

“I like to think of myself as a pirate and you're just walking that person out on the plank. And then you pull them back when you get what you want. Of course, sometimes, in the beginning, you're going to push a little too far.”

“Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.”

Source : A.J.P. Taylor (1996). “Origin Of The Second World War”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

“You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.”

“The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.”

“I need to be able to explain myself in context.”

“You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.”

“In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her of her hope of being able still to confront us, on the continent itself, with an adversary of a stature equal to our own.”