Howard Hughes quotes

View Quote Show me all the blueprints.

View Quote If the Hercules does not fly, I will leave America and never come back again, and I mean it.

View Quote He owns Pan-Am. He owns Congress. He owns the Civil Aeronautics Board. But he does not own the sky.

View Quote Quarantine. Q-u-a-r-a-n-t-i-n-e. Quarantine.

View Quote I'm Howard Hughes, the aviator.

View Quote Sometimes I truly fear that I... am losing my mind. And if I did it... it would be like flying blind.

View Quote Find me some clouds!

View Quote The way of the future.

View Quote I sleep...in this room...in the dark. I have a place I can sleep. I have a chair. That's just beautiful. Oh, yeah. I like the desert. It's hot there in the desert, but it's clean. It's clean. I need to sleep. I should drink something first. I should drink something first. Wait a minute. What if that milk is sour? That milk is bad. I shouldn't pick up the bottle of milk with my right hand. And I shouldn't take the top off with my left hand...put it in my pocket. My left pocket.

View Quote Tell Jimmy I want ten chocolate chip cookies, medium chips, none too close to the outside.

View Quote Orange juice has... nutritional value. Flies outside the window, though. Little Howard loves orange juice, doesn't he just?

View Quote You come out of the blue and let me down, and have the nerve to expect graciousness.

View Quote When I grow up, I'm gonna make the biggest movies, fly the fastest planes ever built, and be the richest man in the world.