Top 100 Hodges Quotes
#1. Next up is the fat family psychologist who makes his guests cry (he calls this "breaking through the wall of denial"), and invites them to leave if any of them dare question his methods. Hodges thinks the fat family psychologist might have learned those methods from old KGB training videos.
Stephen King
#2. Hodges has read there are wells in Iceland so deep you can drop a stone down them and never hear the splash. He thinks some human souls are like that.
Stephen King
#3. Not a giggle, Hodges thought, but a titter. Given that her husband was dead, he supposed you could even call it a widder-titter.
Stephen King
#4. End of watch is what they call it, but Hodges himself has found it impossible to give up watching.
Stephen King
#5. No one rides for free, and in the end, even the most seaworthy ship goes down, blub-blub-blub. The only way to balance that off, in Hodges's opinion, is to make the most of every day afloat.
Stephen King
#6. Pete roars with laughter and asks if Hodges knows what the blond said when she opened the box of Cheerios. Hodges says he does not. Pete makes big amazed eyes and says, Oh! Look at the cute little doughnut seeds!
Stephen King
#7. Of course you will, Hodges thinks. You might think you know what you're risking, but you don't. When you're seventeen, the future is strictly theoretical.
Stephen King
#8. Who knows CPR?" asks the one who grabbed Hodges. A roadie with a long graying ponytail steps forward. He's wearing a faded Judas Coyne tee-shirt, and his eyes are bright red. "I do, but man, I'm so stoned." "Try
Stephen King
#9. Feel like driving your car into the nearest telegraph pole? Therapist Dr Jeremy Hodges can steer you in a better direction. FREE bottle of anti-depressants for the first ten appointments. Or
Liane Moriarty
#10. If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges.
Pee Wee Reese
#11. You know the three Ages of Man, don't you?" Hodges asks. Pete shakes his head, grinning. "Youth, middle age, and you look fuckin terrific.
Stephen King
#12. No one had more impact on my career than Gil Hodges. Playing for him was a
learning experience, and he was a tower of strength. Not everbody liked him, but
everybody respected him. He went about his job in a very professional manner,
and it caused me to do the same with my job.
Tom Seaver
#13. Holly starts to cry. Jerome hugs her clumsily. He's black and she's white, he's seventeen and she's in her forties, but to Hodges Jerome looks like a father comforting his daughter after she came home from school and said no one invited her to the Spring Dance.
Stephen King
#14. Boards." He paused. "I saved the worst for last. We can declassify Princess back to plain old Eva Hodges, female, age four,
Stephen King
#15. He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.
Casey Stengel
#16. When Hodges returns to his chair with his small bundle of mail, the fight-show host is saying goodbye and promising his TV Land audience that tomorrow there will be midgets. Whether of the physical or mental variety he does not specify.
Stephen King
#17. More coffee? Hodges declines with a smile. Hot can only do so much for bad coffee.
Stephen King
#18. Hodges remembers an old saying: even on the darkest day, the sun shines on some dog's ass.
Stephen King
#19. You know you're on the right road, when the right and necessary people cross your path
Jeff Hodges
#20. Even the wolf gets anxious, but the wolf keeps moving and doing, all while being washed in the magic of moonlight
Jason E. Hodges
#21. Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.
Jim Hodges
#22. Sleeplessness and being a writer seem to go together hand in hand.
Jason E. Hodges
#23. When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.
Jim Hodges
#24. Despair is a night without lights. Dreams are the sunrise that leads you out of the darkness.
Jason E. Hodges
#25. A poet's words are like mortar to the bricks of society.
Jason E. Hodges
#26. On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene, but you need them to also have that sense of fun and that sense of movement and that ability to get the actors to really respond to the material in the way that you want them to. It's a very big thing.
Adrian Hodges
#27. Color is an intense experience on its own.
Jim Hodges
#28. History is the roadmap to a better tomorrow. Destroying it is getting rid of any chance of what not to do for future generations.
Jason E. Hodges
#30. I'm not afraid to die, but I'm also, not afraid to live.
Jason E. Hodges
#31. Lies are served like a fine delicacy. But beware, the truth of it all will sour, lodge in your throat, and choke your very existence if you continue to believe them.
Jason E. Hodges
#32. My latest works are these things with light bulbs.
Jim Hodges
#34. One is perhaps too inclined to think only of him alive at some future time when we shall meet him again; but it is really so much more helpful to think of him as just separated from us for the present.
Andrew Hodges
#35. For some folks the world is filled to the top with hurt.
Jason E. Hodges
#36. You can be the greatest at stringing words together but if you don't mean what you say your words will not live long in this world.
Jason E. Hodges
#37. People who think following your dreams is a fairytale don't realize they're living the biggest fairytale of all, following the sheep
Jason E. Hodges
#38. Many children work hard to please their parents, but what I truly longed for was good times that were about us, not about me. That is the real hole the Dodgers filled in my life.
Gil Hodges
#39. You know you're getting somewhere as a writer when the rejection letters mean as much as spam in your inbox.
Jason E. Hodges
#40. They say, poetry is dead. I say, was there ever a time they had a clue of what the state of poetry is?
Jason E. Hodges
#41. You can't make a difference unless you are different.
Chris Hodges
#42. But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.
Jim Hodges
#43. Sweat, blood, and tears mean nothing in your writing if you're not willing to burn what doesn't work.
Jason E. Hodges
#44. Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.
Jim Hodges
#45. Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings.
Leigh Mitchell Hodges
#46. My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents
Jim Hodges
#47. The second rector of [St. John's in] Providence was blown out of church one Sunday by 'an extraordinary gust of wind,' and the people, welcoming this ejection as an act of heaven, refused to let him in again.
George Hodges
#48. I think that some works are more accessible than others.
Jim Hodges
#49. Sometimes the rules of writing get in the way of a good story told.
Jason E. Hodges
#51. If you're not going to immerse yourself in your work as a writer then don't write. But beware, if you're a writer who does not write, you stand a good chance of drowning in the world that surrounds you.
Jason E. Hodges
#52. Words can be applied as one might put on a scent, such as perfume. Some scents are so wonderful and others are sickening ... titles can be the same.
Jim Hodges
#53. How will I reconcile my interest in and membership of LibraryThing with GoodReads? Can manage a workable appreciation of both?
Craig Hodges
#54. Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he's absolutely right.
Adrian Hodges
#55. For him, breaking the Enigma was much easier than the problem of dealing with other people, especially with those holding power.
Andrew Hodges
#56. I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone.
Jason E. Hodges
#57. Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.
Jim Hodges
#58. Your dreams don't stop being dreams because of circumstances.
Jason E. Hodges
#59. As a writer, a poet, you're not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you.
Jason E. Hodges
#60. Alan Turing, however, cared nothing for the opinion of society, and therefore was ahead of his time in laying bare the role of the state.
Andrew Hodges
#61. There are only two kinds of managers. Winning managers and ex-managers.
Gil Hodges
#62. Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer.
Gil Hodges
#63. Becoming a writer does not mean words will suddenly flow with perfection from your pen. It takes hard work, rejection, and the willingness to lay everything inside you out for the world to see.
Jason E. Hodges
#64. Some live it, some wish they lived it, and some never know it's there.
Jason E. Hodges
#65. We usually expect too much from people. Often we judge them based on their actions even as we judge ourselves based on our intentions.
Chris Hodges
#66. When people confront the past - their sins, wounds, and curses - they experience amazing joy, freedom, and spiritual growth. They move from just the assurance of their salvation to an experience of divine deliverance.
Chris Hodges
#67. Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place.
Jason E. Hodges
#68. The problem with baggage is that it affects other people's trips.
Chris Hodges
#69. Digging deep inside you as a writer will damn near kill you at times. But in the end, your words will be true and undeniable for the reader, and that is all that ever really matters in writing.
Jason E. Hodges
#70. Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It's an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen.
Jason E. Hodges
#71. The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy.
George Hodges
#72. When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.
Jim Hodges
#73. Because of our selfishness and inclination toward personal comfort and convenience, we'd rather not have to deal with constant change and uncertainty. We have difficulty reconciling the goodness of God with the mystery of his ways.
Chris Hodges
#74. Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday.
Jason E. Hodges
#75. The split second we cease to breathe here on planet earth, we begin to breathe celestial air, and we have no reason to grieve.
Samuel J. Hodges IV
#76. I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.
Jim Hodges
#77. A poet writes what they see every day, what they know, what they've lived or barely lived through.
Jason E. Hodges
#78. To claim that a man may trust Christ without knowing whether or not he has trusted Christ, is to articulate an absurd idea. Of course a man can know whether or not he believes in the offer of salvation.
Zane C. Hodges
#79. Sometimes it seems safer to have just enough God to get to heaven, but not so much that he radically alters our lives.
Chris Hodges
#80. Paul was focusing on what was happening in him, not to him. Likewise, we can be sure that when something is happening to us, God is doing something in us--something that will shape us for eternity.
Chris Hodges
#81. To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature.
George Hodges
#83. You're always looking to make it a bit fresh. I want to make sure people are constantly surprised and interested, and we're always talking to the directors about that. It's a big challenge to find people that can do it.
Adrian Hodges
#84. However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.
Jim Hodges
#86. Our assignment comes with the alignment. Too many people look for the assignment without first finding their alignment.
Jim Hodges
#87. The situation that women were in, at the time, was something that Dumas doesn't really go into, but it's a great subject to look at. It's a great genre because you can do a lot. Sometimes in thrillers, you can really explore things, and it's the same in this genre.
Adrian Hodges
#88. You're worth three of these other retards that I have working for me," Mr. Fletcher said. For a moment, he'd been flattered; then he realized he'd just been given the value of three retards.
T. Ellery Hodges
#89. Well, I know that I'll never forget that, but also I won't forget the hundreds of people who sent me letters, telegrams, and postcards during that World Series. There wasn't a single nasty message. Everybody tried to say something nice.
Gil Hodges
#90. Express to our world what is alive inside us not what their world says we should be ... Our true selves should never be created by others, Held in their pockets like belongings, like trinkets. We are skaters. We are artists. We are free.
Jason E. Hodges
#91. Just do the best with what you have, and you'll soon be doing it better.
Gil Hodges
#93. He ran his hand down the surface and felt some imperfections in the steel near the center. He flipped it over to see that the alien had put an engraving into one of the surfaces. "Excali-bar," Jonathan said out loud. He smiled, rolling his eyes at the alien's sense of humor.
T. Ellery Hodges
#94. The separation between any two events in the history of a particle shall be a maximum or minimum when measured along its world line.
Andrew Hodges
#95. For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day.
Jason E. Hodges
#96. And thus was kept the first Christmas, the Christmas in the year one, with carols by the choir of heaven, and God's own Son, the Saviour of the world, coming as a Christmas gift for all mankind.
George Hodges
#97. It doesn't translate perfectly, but the gist is this; fear is the heart alone.
T. Ellery Hodges
#98. God calls us to duty, and the only right answer is obedience ... whether we ourselves get enjoyment and blessing from the task or not, the call must be obeyed ... It is better to obey blunderingly than not to obey at all.
George Hodges
#99. Temptation is a test of your relationship, not your self-control.
Chris Hodges
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