Top 100 Quotes About Hines
#1. Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.
Wendell Pierce
#2. We are men on a budget. I mean, why go all the way to Amsterdam when you can just go to Harry Hines?
Anthony Langston
#3. All writers believe in the magic of books; Jim Hines has created a system where that magic becomes real, usable, and very definitely not always safe.
Tanya Huff
#4. Hines Ward, Plaxico Burress, Jerome Bettis-they are great leaders. I listen to everything they say.
Ben Roethlisberger
#5. I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something.
Jasmine Guy
#6. If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.
Laurieann Gibson
#7. She [Mrs. Hines] stood before the door as if she were barring them from the house
a dumpy, fat little woman with a round face like dirty and unovened dough, and a tight screw of scant hair.
William Faulkner
#8. I'm not going to lie: There are times I play mind tricks on myself, like that the French fries are poison. With desserts, I'll let myself have just one bite, but I'll look like a freak when I'm eating it, like when I did Duncan Hines commercials as a kid, just savoring every morsel.
Fergie
#9. Marijuana brownies are amazing. Very simple to make, too. Just get some Duncan Hines brownie mix and cook the weed right in there. Drop it right in with the butter. I don't know who came up with this idea first, but it's sheer genius.
George Lopez
#10. My favorite sport is football. I'm a die hard Steelers fan. Favorite players were Hines Ward and Greg Lloyd.
Anthony Jeselnik
#11. As parents, we're human beings, too, but sometimes we're not as understanding as we'd like to be.
Gregory Hines
#12. When Theolyn died, the humans had built an enormous pyre and placed his body at the center. How was [Veka] supposed to know humans cremated their dead instead of cooking them? She had figured it out quickly enough, but not before Jimar and his ilk had spotted her standing at the pyre, fork in hand.
Jim C. Hines
#14. Instead of Debbie Does Dallas, we get Gandalf Guts Goblins.
Jim C. Hines
#15. My mom used to tell me, 'I live every day of my life for you.' I understand that now. The older I get, the more I understand.
Hines Ward
#16. For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.
Cheryl Hines
#17. My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'
Cheryl Hines
#18. Smudge continued running laps, flames flickering like tiny orange banners on his back. He was never wrong about danger, but he couldn't tell you if that danger was a meteorite streaking toward the roof or an amorous moose running amok in the parking lot.
Jim C. Hines
#19. Given the issues with certain SF/F trophies (like the World Fantasy Award, which is 1) butt-ugly and 2) based on one disgustingly racist dude), all trophies from this point forward should be made out of LEGO. That way if you don't like it, you can just make it into something else.
Jim C. Hines
#20. Ever the women must work," Brigid grumbled.
Sanna Hines
#21. 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
#22. I had said before that all stories were magic. It had never occurred to me that all magic was stories.
Jim C. Hines
#23. I love hot sauce. It can't be hot enough for me.
Cheryl Hines
#24. This presents a serious question." They both looked at me. "What's that?" asked Lena. "Whether to start you off with a Doctor Who marathon or dive straight into Firefly.
Jim C. Hines
#26. I grew up in the '50s, a tough time for African Americans. I had friends whose fathers would openly say, 'Just bite your tongu;, don't cause any problems.' My father was not like that. Even in the toughest times racially, if somebody disrespected his family, they were in trouble.
Gregory Hines
#27. They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit.
Gregory Hines
#28. The sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who might have worked, having been canonically established as being ineffective on wood, but nobody had ever figured out how to use the controls on the blasted thing.
Jim C. Hines
#29. You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair.
Gregory Hines
#30. Well, usually, when you're doing a sitcom, you get a script and every word or for the most part, is written. So, you know, if it's a 30-minute sitcom, then it's a 35-page script or something like that.
Cheryl Hines
#31. I just learned how to scuba dive. I'd been scared to rely on one little air hose for oxygen, but swimming with all those fish is exhilarating.
Cheryl Hines
#32. The more they evolved from monsters into angsty, sexy superheroes, the more the odds of a human being surviving an encounter with an angry vampire shrank to nothing.
Jim C. Hines
#33. Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs.
Gregory Hines
#34. Pac-Man?" The beast looked up at me, oversized fangs giving it an expression that straddled the line between deadly and dopey. A string of drool waved pendulum-like from the jaw, pushing it firmly into the latter category. "When he was a puppy, he tried to eat a ghost," Pallas explained.
Jim C. Hines
#35. I have seen John Scalzi's pose-off picture. There are no words. There is only inarticulate whimpering.
Jim C. Hines
#36. There is no right choice. You chose. Your job now is to make the most of that choice.
Jim C. Hines
#37. I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.
Gregory Hines
#38. This is my story, this is my song, praising my Saviour all the day long.
Jerome Hines
#39. I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.
Hines Ward
#40. I grew up kind of fast. I had a lot of responsibilities-cleaning the house, going to school on my own, making good grades on my own
Hines Ward
#41. I was amused to note that even vampires obeyed the unwritten rules of elevator etiquette.
Jim C. Hines
#42. Someone once told me that we move when it becomes less painful than staying where we are.
Anne Hines
#43. Judge not, lest ye be punched in the face for being a self-righteous prick.
Jim C. Hines
#44. The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.
Gregory Hines
#45. It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But it really was more emotionally challenging.
Gregory Hines
#46. People really appreciate the way I play.
Hines Ward
#47. had gone to work in Worcester's famous Washburn & Moen barbed wire factory: Swedes were preferred by employers there because, unlike the Irish, they did not tend to get either fighting drunk or unionized.
Richard Davenport-Hines
#48. If you really want to kill a libriomancer, hook a bomb up to a big red button and tell him not to press it
Jim C. Hines
#49. He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning.
Richard Davenport-Hines
#50. Stupidity is a mindset of those who refuse knowledge! A mistake of judgment is an error, we make mistakes all of the time, it's stupid if you keep making the same mistakes often.
Monica Chrisandtras Hines
#51. It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
John Hines
#52. God is love, at times we forget that we're human perhaps with common frailties and flaws. Love is the ability to accept this without judgement.
Monica Chrisandtras Hines
#53. Any factual errors that remain are entirely the fault of Bob, who snuck into the offices at DAW to try to sabotage my book. I hate that guy.
Jim C. Hines
#54. I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance.
Gregory Hines
#55. I returned the vial to the book, then surveyed the damage to my library. Angry as I was at Deb's betrayal, seeing the bullet-ridden texts was worse. It was one thing to shoot at me, but to destroy my books
Jim C. Hines
#56. He was sceptical about the value of almost all work, save for the pleasure it gives the worker,' reported Virginia Woolf. 'He works only because he likes it.
Richard Davenport-Hines
#57. Once in a while I'll order an omelet, 'cause I'm not very good at making omelets.
Cheryl Hines
#58. Isaac, tell your girlfriend she can't bring weapons into holy-shit-your-spider's-on-fire!
Jim C. Hines
#59. Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.
Cheryl Hines
#60. The life of an adventurer appeared to consist of roughly six parts boredom to one part stark terror, or so it seemed to Jig.
Jim C. Hines
#61. My roots are on the live performing stage, so while I enjoy making films and the other things that I do, when I get on stage, I feel at home; I'm comfortable.
Gregory Hines
#62. He had also jinxed my telescope so that every time I looked at Mars, Marvin the Martian popped up and threatened to destroy the Earth with an explosive space-modulator.
Jim C. Hines
#63. When my brother and me got into performing in the late '40s and early '50s, it was a sensational opportunity to learn from our elders. Every show we played had a dancer, a comic, a juggler, a singer, an acrobat. I came to appreciate virtuosity in all forms of the business.
Gregory Hines
#64. Nearly everyone wants at least one outstanding meal a day.
Duncan Hines
#65. Well, I am producing a show that's going to be on NBC this fall. It's called 'School Pride,' and it's a reality show where we're going around the country and renovating schools. It's really great.
Cheryl Hines
#66. The older you are, the more you have to offer. Life begins at 40 and it just gets better and better.
Marcia Hines
#67. If you see me up there on the stand smiling, I'm lost!
Earl Hines
#68. One of the library occupants was Lawrence Beesley, a Dulwich College science master seeking new chances in America (his small son grew up to marry Dodie Smith, the author of The 101 Dalmatians).
Richard Davenport-Hines
#69. Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.
John Hines
#70. An infinite number of monkeys have said an infinite number of things about the Hugos this year. People on all sides have said intelligent and insightful things, and people on all sides have said asinine things. The amount of words spent on this makes the Wheel of Time saga look like flash fiction.
Jim C. Hines
#71. We should sing as we speak. I feel almost all vocal problems can be solved by shaping the singing technique to conform to the speaking technique. Singing is simply sustained speech.
Jerome Hines
#72. I've tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry.
Jim C. Hines
#73. My experience is at The Groundlings Theater, where we created different characters and did sketch comedy. And sometimes the characters were outrageous, but they always came from a real place. So even working there, we had to create characters from the people that we knew.
Cheryl Hines
#74. New rule: every fantasy author who doesn't treat horses like tireless hairy motorcycles automatically gets a Hugo.
Jim C. Hines
#76. And for me to have my name mentioned among some of the Super Bowl MVPs that played in the Super Bowl, words can't describe it. It's totally a dream come true.
Hines Ward
#77. Story was magic. Magic was story. Memory was also story, disparate events linked together in our mind to create a narrative.
Jim C. Hines
#78. I can't protect you from the stars, but I can tell you stories that may help at night when they are staring at you.
Karen Hines
#79. I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
Earl Hines
#80. It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.
Jerome Hines
#81. Forget about what goblins would do. Forget about what an adventurer would do. I need to figure out what Jig should do.
Jim C. Hines
#82. He is the Baltimore Ravens. He's their franchise.
Hines Ward
#83. The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.
Jerome Hines
#84. To find inner peace and happiness, you need to exercise
Jake Hines
#85. You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.
Earl Hines
#86. You don't do what's right because you know it will work out. You do it because you know it's right.
Jim C. Hines
#87. A hundred feet underground, in a fake field beneath a fake sky, with an ogre slaughtered like no more than a rat to a cat, and he sends us to search for the unusual.
Jim C. Hines
#88. I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.
Cheryl Hines
#89. The Go Red for Women campaign raises awareness of the risk of heart disease. I think a lot of people don't realize that heart disease is the number one killer of women. So what we're doing is encouraging women to tell five other women to learn more about heart disease and how they can prevent it.
Cheryl Hines
#90. Well, I was born in Miami, and then I lived for a long time in Tallahassee, and before that, Winter Haven, which is a tiny town in Florida. I was not a city girl.
Cheryl Hines
#91. Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit.
[Blog post, March 12, 2012]
Jim C. Hines
#92. I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up. The audience never knows, but that's when I smile the most, when I show the most ivory.
Earl Hines
#93. Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.
Jerome Hines
#94. Value those whose capabilities are insurmountable you yourself possess the same strength....there's NO value in clowns! Believe and overcome!
Monica Chrisandtras Hines
#95. The other thing is that women my age know that looks are only skin deep. They don't matter. What matters is who you are. Hopefully at the end of the day, you're a good person. That's what counts.
Marcia Hines
#96. The hard truth is often simply: learn to act like a normal person.
Will Hines
#97. Manipulating people is what's so fun about poker. I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable.
Cheryl Hines
#98. A cop friend downstate had once described what he called the 'pucker effect,' the body's automatic response when something just wasn't right. He wasn't talking about the lips; the puckering happened farther south, and every cop learned to trust that instinct.
Jim C. Hines
#99. Questing is hard. Fortunately, Thomas is here to spoon-feed them answers. We're one step away from him giving them an instruction sheet by Ikea, with cartoonish diagrams and a little goddess-slaying allen wrench.
Jim C. Hines
#100. I hadn't thought to bring anything to wash down the blood. I wondered if they had a font for holy water, and whether anyone would object to me using it as a drinking fountain. Though given that I was trying to absorb vampire magic, using holy water as a chaser probably wasn't a great idea.
Jim C. Hines
