Words matter. These are the best Hawks Quotes from famous people such as Richard Farnsworth, Stephen Fry, John Burroughs, Michael Shellenberger, Neil Marshall, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh – I worked for some real good directors.
But if one could go back in time, I’d love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who’s one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in ‘Rio Bravo’.
August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
Hawks and doves have long found common ground opposing the spread of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear states.
‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ made me want to make films. I am wild about the films of John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, Howard Hawks and Sam Peckinpah.
Wind energy threatens golden eagles, bald eagles, burrowing owls, red-tailed hawks, Swainson’s hawks, American kestrels, white-tailed kites, peregrine falcons, and prairie falcons, among many others.
When I see myself – ‘John Collins the Atlanta Hawks’ – saying that and hearing that, hearing myself say that, looking in the mirror, and realizing ‘man I made it’ is crazy to think about.
An owl is traditionally a symbol of wisdom, so we are neither doves nor hawks but owls, and we are vigilant when others are resting.
I think I was always this person. If you see my early work, my first TV show called ‘Shikast’ and a lot of ‘Sea Hawks.’ I think I was dealing with a misplaced definition of success.
I have a Dominique Wilkins Hawks jersey that I still wear. That’s probably my favorite one. What’s funny is that I spend all this time collecting jerseys, and now people are out there collecting mine.
I was an all-around player – if I was just a scorer, there’s no way the Hawks would have won 50 games four years in a row.
When I was younger, all my friends were older – John Ford, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. I loved talking to those people.
I’ve got everything I need: a nice piece of land with hawks and owls and incredible sunsets, and the good will of my neighbors.
I’d been a fan of old film comedies like Preston Sturges and Howard Hawks movies – the fast-paced dialogue in movies like ‘His Girl Friday’ and ‘Bringing Up Baby’ and ‘Twentieth Century’ and ‘Sullivan’s Travels.’
In many traditions, hawks are sacred: Apollo’s messengers for the Greeks, sun symbols for the ancient Egyptians and, in the case of the Lakota Sioux, embodiments of clear vision, speed and single-minded dedication.
I grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, so in Iowa, we didn’t have a pro sports team, so it was all about the Hawks, and everybody was a Hawkeyes fan, and everybody had their black and gold and had something Hawkeye related.
I want to stay with the Hawks.
It’s in the Hawks’ DNA to win one, so I want to be a part of the Hawks’ DNA and the Hawks’ lineage of guys who have won a Slam Dunk Championship.
I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks’ screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the relations between men and women were at their civilized height in terms of banter and exchange of wit and equality.
When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks.
After ‘Sea Hawks,’ television became very strange for me, I could not relate to the stories that were being shown on TV.
Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.
