Top 100 Hughes Quotes
#1. Airwaves get buzzed from pot By Trevor Hughes,
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#2. I have respected every manager I have played under, but if you can't learn from someone like Mark Hughes, it is going to be hard for you.
Charlie Adam
#3. I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.
Martin Scorsese
#4. We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel.
Howard Hughes
#5. Matt and Mark (Hughes) used to pound each other on the farm as young boys.
Mike Goldberg
#6. Perhaps," Mg. Katter cut in, "she's finally gotten smart. In and out, job done."
Mg. Hughes said, "No. Not her." He paused. "She knows Emery is critical to the syndicate, they all do. He's personally invested in it. That, and she's always kept a . . . keen . . . interest in him.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#7. I was just after Generation X. I missed the John Hughes movies; I had to watch them on TBS.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#8. An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.
Jim C. Hines
#9. I am that rose that grew from concrete, I am the ENTIRE mother to son Langston Hughes poem. And I'm still climbing ...
Jaha Knight
#10. Howard Hughes was obsessed with me. But at first it seemed as if he were offering me a superb career opportunity.
Jane Greer
#11. They held up 'The Outlaw' for five years. And Howard Hughes had me doing publicity for it every day, five days a week for five years.
Jane Russell
#12. I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.
Joel Edgerton
#13. Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was - by Time corporate standards - just a little lazy.
David Halberstam
#14. if you're going to use the word 'dream' in a poem, you had better be langston hughes.
Jewelle L. Gomez
#15. Do you know what writing a book is? It's sitting alone in a room for weeks without making contact with another human. I felt like Howard Hughes.
Jon Stewart
#16. I read that John Hughes script for 'Mr. Mom,' and I thought, 'This guy is a funny writer.' I went: 'You ought to stick around and direct this thing.' But he didn't; he left, and look what he became. A really legendary comedy director.
Michael Keaton
#17. My life with Howard Hughes was and shall remain a matter on which I will have no comment.
Jean Peters
#18. I am not the "Ann" to whom the letters were sent. That was Ann Isabel Hughes.
Ann Marie
#19. 'Menace II Society' itself was a groundbreaking film. It's definitely going to go in the vaults of classics in all of cinema. The Hughes Brothers created an incredible project. Just gave the world something a little different than what we had seen in previous films in that same genre.
Larenz Tate
#20. Working with Woody Allen is like filming Howard Hughes's will. It's a very mysterious and strange event. You never get a peek at the whole will.
Michael O'Donoghue
#21. After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.
Michael J. Fox
#22. Growing up, I supported Manchester United, and my hero was Mark Hughes.
Brian O'Driscoll
#23. I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.
Kevin Smith
#24. You could not have done it better than Hughes.
Robert Pape
#25. He wasn't just dead; he was severely dead. He was one of the deadest people Hughes had ever seen, and Hughes had seen quite a few.
Barry Lyga
#26. If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.
Aimee Mullins
#27. At boarding school you had to wear your name across your chest and your back, and obviously I had a pretty funny name. It wasn't Brown or Smith or Hughes.
Diane Cilento
#28. I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.
Ben Vereen
#29. There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.
Esther Williams
#30. My story is really an affirmation of my strength and my luck. To live with a great artist like Ted Hughes or Mick Jagger is a very, very destructive role for a woman trying to be herself. In fact, it can't be done.
Marianne Faithfull
#31. I'm married to Senator Vincent Hughes of Pennsylvania, so I always am speaking my mind. I remember, growing up, my parents were always involved in what was going on in the community, and their involvement helped me in so many different ways and other people within our community.
Sheryl Lee Ralph
#32. If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes' hands and a bass in the other, he'll choose the Mars bar.
Gary Moore
#33. Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with the economy, no jobs, doing the best we can. Hughes doesn't flinch from the tough existential questions. He embraces them.
Joshua Mohr
#34. I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.
Nicolas Winding Refn
#35. Don't be ridiculous," Mg. Aviosky assured her as Magicians Katter and Hughes studied Mg. Thane lying on the floor by the light of four candles. "The only one who can manipulate Emery Thane's future is Emery Thane himself.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#37. Tonight I'll be interviewing Ken Watanabe, Keisha Castle Hughes, Benecio Del Toro and Djimon Honsou - and yes, those are actors, not caterers.
Joan Rivers
#38. Mark Hughes at his very best: he loves to feel people right behind him ...
Kevin Keegan
#39. Every single Asian dude who went to high school or junior high during the era of John Hughes movies was called 'Donger,'
Martin Wong
#40. Langston Hughes, who wrote, "That Justice is a blind goddess/Is a thing to which we black are wise:/Her bandage hides two festering sores/That once perhaps were eyes." As
C. Arthur Ellis Jr
#41. It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.
Anthony Michael Hall
#42. As I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Academy, I came fact to face with Alwen Hughes. She looked just as stunning as she had done in my first year at art school.
Rolf Harris
#43. Around the edge of the crowd was a little 13-year-old bouncing up and down with a grin that went from ear to ear. She was so happy for her sister. It was a charming moment, and I think thats the essence of what Emily Hughes is.
Dick Button
#44. First off, I love Woody Allen. His early movies, like 'Hannah and Her Sisters,' are incredible. I also love anything by Billy Wilder, Ron Howard and John Hughes. I really grew up on the Hughes films, which are the ones I go back and watch all the time, just to see how they were put together.
Tim Story
#45. You'll never know the true meaning of winning until you've lost" - Pierre S. Hughes
Pierre S. Hughes
#46. Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear.
Philip Howard, 20th Earl Of Arundel
#47. Suicide Note:
The calm,
Cool face of the river
Asked me for a kiss.
-Langston Hughes
Kay Redfield Jamison
#48. I think I draw most inspiration from writers like Richelle Mead and filmmakers like John Hughes. They both really understand the experience of being a teenager and how insistent and intense everything feels, but they're also smart, savvy, and fun.
Amanda Hocking
#49. I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.
John Cusack
#50. It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.
Peter Schjeldahl
#51. I think they're having trouble adjusting to the emotions they have outside of their dreams. At any rate, they keep acting like demented teenagers from a porno version of a John Hughes film. (Asmodeus)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#52. Charles Evans Hughes, former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, said: "Men do not die from overwork. They die from dissipation and worry." Yes, from dissipation of their energies - and worry because they never seem to get their work done.
Dale Carnegie
#53. It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future' and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.
Chris Evans
#54. Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish poets. Oswald is one of our finest.
Tobias Hill
#55. When I was about 14, in about 1984, I decided to become a great poet. Faber & Faber was going to publish me, and when Ted Hughes read my first anthology he would invite me to Yorkshire for meat pies and mentorship.
David Mitchell
#56. I'm a huge fan of John Hughes and can say that 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles' is easily a top 3 favorite. I'm also a huge fan of all the Second City talent, and I think my Dad and Bill Murray are long lost twins.
Ryan McPartlin
#58. I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.
William Howard Taft
#59. Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.
Esther Williams
#60. Have you ever seen that guy who has the record for fattest man in the world? Bob Hughes, the fattest man in the world ... 1400 pounds. Ladies and gentlemen, the man has let himself go.
Jerry Seinfeld
#61. If you're not paranoid you've got to be crazy!"
- Michael C. Hughes
Michael C. Hughes
#62. I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.
Martin Scorsese
#64. My mum still says the biggest mistake I ever made was not being Benedict Lloyd-Hughes. She's very upset. But the only one who calls me Benedict in real life is my granny.
Ben Lloyd-Hughes
#65. How much tragedy has to happen before I split wide open?
Sam Hughes
Alisa Mullen
#66. Mark Hughes crossed every I and dotted every T.
Robbie Savage
#67. Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Ted Morgan
#68. Slowly, after dozens of rejection slips and failures and false starts and postponed dreams
what Langston Hughes called dreams deferred
I stepped onto the hallowed ground of being a published novelist, and then, fifteen years later, I started to make real money.
Anne Lamott
#69. Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god ... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
Martin Scorsese
#70. The Howard Hughes thing hadn't actually sounded like such a bad deal until about ... oh, eight thirty-five this morning. Something about having his ex carry him to the bathroom and help him wash his balls just took all the fun out of becoming an eccentric recluse.
Heidi Betts
#71. In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.
Anthony Michael Hall
#72. This story means that we must live in full consciousness of the miracle of divine providence, understanding that God has total hands-on control of the world - and that all of life is to be lived for him without fear and with increasing expectation. R. Kent Hughes
Anonymous
#73. Hughes often said that men fail to make progress in learning not for lack of time or ability but for lack of hard work.
Douglas Bond
#74. This boy turkied my Thanksgiving, but I won't let him Grinch my Christmas. -Dean Hughes (Midway to Heaven)
Dean Hughes
#75. I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
Anne Stevenson
#76. '90210' was looking at teenagers from a perspective that hadn't really been seen on television, though it had been seen in movies like some John Hughes films. I don't know if you want to say '90210' was real, but what the characters were going through was relatable - in a very glamorous environment.
Darren Star
#77. The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
Gene Tierney
#78. If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.
Pearl Cleage
#80. You can talk about Michael Jackson all you want, but John Hughes was the soundtrack to my 1980s life.
Shawn Amos
#81. All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.
Caprice Crane
#83. I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.
Karen Hughes
#85. I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.
E. J. Hughes
#86. I even hung mobiles, banners, and wind chimes from the ceiling in any wide open space." In an aside she commented, "Moving objects especially mess with their ability to pull themselves together." "Is that so? Now you're the expert on ghost prevention?" "I guess so. It worked.
Rhonda Hughes
#87. I liked being active. I liked being creative.
Sarah Hughes
#88. In my position, the right witchdoctor
Might have caught you in flight with his bare hands,
Tossed you, cooling, one hand to the other,
Godless, happy, quieted.
I managed
A wisp of your hair, your ring, your watch, your nightgown.
Ted Hughes
#89. Your explanation depresses me," I said.
"Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.
Langston Hughes
#90. Worship must be - Christ centered, Holy Spirit led, a Response to the Father, about Intimacy and Service and always lead to Transformation!
Tim Hughes
#91. The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.
John Hughes
#92. Tell all my mourners
To mourn in red-
Cause there ain't no sense
In my bein' dead.
Langston Hughes
#93. I left my soul at Tears of Crimson, the New Orleans Vampire Bar. If found, don't return follow me into the endless night.
Michelle Hughes
#94. Never make a decision. Let someone else make it and then if it turns out to be the wrong one, you can disclaim it, and if it is the right one you can abide by it.
Howard Hughes
#95. They only want to weep
As after the huge wars
Senseless huge wars
Huge senseless weeping.
Ted Hughes
#96. Am I the man who killed Deep Purple? I don't think so. I think every band from that era, even if you look at Led Zeppelin, if you look at their first four albums, they're extremely different from one another, and I've never made the same album twice.
Glenn Hughes
#97. I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.
Chris Hughes
#98. Get some sleep, pup,' the Chihuahua told him. 'After your first match, you already grabbed the attention of the fans. Tomorrow you must win their hearts.
Devon Hughes
#99. He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of.
Ted Hughes
#100. Even to an outsider like myself, not only in the theatre was such disunity evident, but in much else in government Spain. Alvarez del Vayo, Socialist Minister of Foreign Affairs, once asked, Why is it Spain's people are so great, but her leaders so small?
Langston Hughes
