It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
ROBERT HUGHES A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the...
ROBERT HUGHES The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...
ROBERT HUGHES It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
ROBERT HUGHES An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intens...
ROBERT HUGHES A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all th...
ROBERT HUGHES Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
ROBERT HUGHES Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
ROBERT HUGHES One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano p...
ROBERT HUGHES [It] was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
ROBERT HUGHES Indeed, the idea that doubt can be heroic, if it is locked into a structure as grand as that of the ...
ROBERT HUGHES if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual anal...
ROBERT HUGHES Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain...
ROBERT HUGHES The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as...
ROBERT HUGHES Woven through these galleries are some of the most deliriously awful canvases of the 19th century hi...
ROBERT HUGHES [It was] an obsolete pachyderm of tawny limestone.
ROBERT HUGHES The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us i...
ROBERT HUGHES We are now exposed to more images in a day than anyone in the 14th century would have known in a lif...
ROBERT HUGHES The World's Fair audience tended to think of the machine as unqualifiedly good, strong, stupid and o...
ROBERT HUGHES We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in ...
ROBERT HUGHES A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifix...
ROBERT HUGHES [The prisons are] the monuments of Australia-the Paestums [of] an extraordinary time-an effort to ex...
ROBERT HUGHES In one sense, (Duchamp's) “The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell ...
ROBERT HUGHES Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public
ROBERT HUGHES In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World...
ROBERT HUGHES Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre
ROBERT HUGHES Matisses and Miro's hung transfixed like rabbits in the glare of spotlights.
ROBERT HUGHES Today is just the beginning of this effort. It (the disaster) isn't something we should tuck away an...
ROBERT HUGHES For the machine meant the conquest of horizontal space. It also meant a sense of that space which fe...
ROBERT HUGHES What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence...
ROBERT HUGHES Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rap...
ROBERT HUGHES I have never been against new art as such; some of it is good, much is crap, most is somewhere in be...
ROBERT HUGHES It leaves you with a kind of empty feeling,
ROBERT HUGHES An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do wha...
LANGSTON HUGHES Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
LANGSTON HUGHES The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.
TED HUGHES It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
TED HUGHES What happens in the heart simply happens.
TED HUGHES The facts are on our side.
KAREN HUGHES We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.
KAREN HUGHES And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to mem...
KAREN HUGHES I never dreamed I would one day work at it White House.
KAREN HUGHES Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing.
KAREN HUGHES For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Co...
KAREN HUGHES I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered hi...
KAREN HUGHES I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a...
KAREN HUGHES And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.
KAREN HUGHES Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly ru...
KAREN HUGHES I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigor...
KAREN HUGHES In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris,...
KAREN HUGHES The President has a wonderful sense of humor, which is one of the reasons it is so much fun to work ...
KAREN HUGHES Unfortunately, you know, working in a spirit of cooperation and respect requires someone else to rea...
KAREN HUGHES As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
KAREN HUGHES The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
KAREN HUGHES We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us b...
LANGSTON HUGHES Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.
HOWARD HUGHES What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
LANGSTON HUGHES My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
LANGSTON HUGHES Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
LANGSTON HUGHES I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short no...
LANGSTON HUGHES I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
LANGSTON HUGHES We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without...
LANGSTON HUGHES I will not take 'but' for an answer.
LANGSTON HUGHES I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our Eng...
LANGSTON HUGHES One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can ...
LANGSTON HUGHES I must never write when I do not want to write.
LANGSTON HUGHES When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
LANGSTON HUGHES In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except i...
LANGSTON HUGHES The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if th...
CHARLES HUGHES We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is...
CHARLES HUGHES What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry uplike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a soreAnd the...
LANGSTON HUGHES Listen, Christ,You did alright in your day, I reckonBut that days gone now. They ghosted you up a sw...
LANGSTON HUGHES There isnt such a reasonable fellow in the world, to hear him talk. He Tom Brown never wants anythin...
THOMAS HUGHES 'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spar...
ADAM HUGHES I get less and less sketching done at shows, as more and more people want to come up and talk or get...
ADAM HUGHES I think all children draw, as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only diffe...
ADAM HUGHES A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbi...
ADAM HUGHES Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop...
ADAM HUGHES I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscio...
ADAM HUGHES That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the iss...
ADAM HUGHES I've been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure ou...
ADAM HUGHES I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the De...
ADAM HUGHES /> Birmingham game on 16 October, but I don't know whether that is possible, it is too early to say,...
AARON HUGHES The hernia has been fixed now and I don't want to break it again, so it would be pointless playing o...
AARON HUGHES Hopefully it will not be too long before I'm back.
AARON HUGHES It was something I needed done. I felt it go in the second half of the Chelsea game at the weekend,
AARON HUGHES I am sure it would have been easy to get out of the Malta trip as it was a friendly match but everyo...
AARON HUGHES I can't say too much about what happened with George McCartney because I do not know the full story ...
AARON HUGHES Talk of other players being ready to quit is wide of the mark.
AARON HUGHES I want to put an end to all this talk of players not wanting to play for Sanchez - it is simply not ...
AARON HUGHES Reaching our first major finals since the 1986 World Cup in Mexico has to be a realistic target,
AARON HUGHES I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from w...
CHARLES HUGHES I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not t...
LANGSTON HUGHES Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involve...
THOMAS HUGHES Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a n...
LANGSTON HUGHES Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.
LANGSTON HUGHES The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us th...
CHERYL HUGHES The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears o...
TED HUGHES If you're all so peaceful up there, how did you get such greedy and cruel ideas?"
The dragon wa...
TED HUGHES My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I thin...
YELLE HUGHES Well, Son, I tell you, life for me aint been no crystal stair.
Its been hard and bare and rough p...
LANGSTON HUGHES A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
CHARLES HUGHES The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
CHARLES HUGHES No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the ...
LANGSTON HUGHES As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
I wish...
HUGHES MEARNS Nothing destroys a team quite so quickly as inaccurate passing.Nothing builds a team's confidence mo...
CHARLES HUGHES Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
LANGSTON HUGHES I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
LANGSTON HUGHES I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.
LANGSTON HUGHES Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
LANGSTON HUGHES We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without...
LANGSTON HUGHES I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you real...
LANGSTON HUGHES When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
CHARLES HUGHES Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must ...
THOMAS HUGHES Her face was her chaperone.
RUPERT HUGHES But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a so...
LANGSTON HUGHES Life isn't all beer and skittles.
THOMAS HUGHES Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. -Langston Hugh...
LANGSTON HUGHES All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.
RICHARD HUGHES The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us th...
CHERYL HUGHES When people cheat in any arena, they diminish themselves-they threaten their own self-esteem and the...
CHERYL HUGHES My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more tha...
LANGSTON HUGHES The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built... I put the s...
HOWARD HUGHES At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity,...
JOHN HUGHES I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone be...
CLARA HUGHES It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don&...
JOHN HUGHES My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
LANGSTON HUGHES Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your ...
GLENN HUGHES Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
LANGSTON HUGHES Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
LANGSTON HUGHES Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
LANGSTON HUGHES Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being ...
TED HUGHES Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them ...
MATT HUGHES I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any...
JOHN HUGHES She's done it and she's on her way. She needed to think about how to do that by making the right dec...
ANN HUGHES How do we get our message out? It so easily gets portrayed that the Democratic Party is negative and...
ANN HUGHES It has been a long time coming. If he had not received a knighthood this year I would have carried o...
ANN HUGHES If I find out that I missed a good sale, I just feel sick,
ANN HUGHES I like a lot of stuff -- the more stuff the better. My philosophy is that you can never have too muc...
ANN HUGHES The bottom line is he's still gonna die for this crime, ... Now [Cooper] knows what it's like to go ...
ANN HUGHES I think its particularly good for cases that have some real sensitivity, like sexual harassment or a...
ANN HUGHES It is growing exponentially, ... It's rapidly increasing because the pressures on the justice system...
ANN HUGHES She is a classic case of how to be more a part of the team. She is popular with the girls and boys (...
ANN HUGHES She is playing for the sake of the team now. She's learned that the little bumps you hit along the w...
ANN HUGHES I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human bloo...
LANGSTON HUGHES They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip an...
KATHRYN HUGHES We try really hard to maintain the focus of this day on the kids.
ALLEN HUGHES As far as we're concerned, they are the real stars of the event.
ALLEN HUGHES It really is about a whole lot of people working together that really can make a difference if you b...
ALLEN HUGHES Part of this day really is a celebration of all of the work the motorcyclists have done. They've wor...
ALLEN HUGHES When you have someone like him for four years and working like that, it's hard to see him lose. He s...
ALLEN HUGHES When he's on, he is as good as anyone we've had. Technique-wise, he's as explosive a wrestler as we'...
ALLEN HUGHES It seems like we've started (in the heavyweights) the last three, four matches. It helps when you ha...
ALLEN HUGHES We've met them the last two years and we knew they were good. They're better than they were last yea...
ALLEN HUGHES Bigger kids, once they're on the mat, it's hard to get off. That gave us momentum.
ALLEN HUGHES We weren't expecting it but we'll take it. He's a first-year boy and everything thing he works on in...
ALLEN HUGHES We're attempting to help people move through the pilgrimage from being victims to being victors for ...
ALFRED HUGHES We're putting people before the reconstruction of buildings,
ALFRED HUGHES It is so important in this time of dispossession taking place that we recognize we have one another,...
ALFRED HUGHES God calls us from being victims to being victors in Jesus Christ,
ALFRED HUGHES My concern is their health and their lives, ... These people have not been eating properly. I hope t...
ALFRED HUGHES There's so much in our city: music, art, architecture, ... I don't know why we need to appeal to the...
ALFRED HUGHES This is indeed a historic moment in the life of the church of New Orleans, indeed for the whole city...
ALFRED HUGHES are so badly impacted that they probably will have to be rebuilt.
ALFRED HUGHES The people of New Orleans are a people of faith, and we can begin to explore the possibilities, ... ...
ALFRED HUGHES The church in New Orleans is alive,
ALFRED HUGHES It was a real neighborhood school. I mean, we used to call it the Irish Catholic ghetto. And there i...
AMY HUGHES Therefore, customers do not have to deploy a solution from each family in order to receive a very ri...
AMY HUGHES She's taking it in stride, and I just really want to say I hope everybody does well.
AMY HUGHES While Cisco can't comment specifically about competitor claims, what we can say is Cisco does offer ...
AMY HUGHES While Cisco can't comment specifically about competitor claims, what we can say is Cisco does offer ...
AMY HUGHES They're not just on the team because they are from the local area. Both of these girls are very dese...
AMY HUGHES There's nothing we really want to get out of it, other than to show we're a part of the community.
AMY HUGHES Every time I've seen the bats, it's been from the bridge. It's kind of neat to see them from the wat...
AMY HUGHES It's a lot of single people who are new to town. People who work as programmers during the day and a...
AMY HUGHES I wanted to meet some more friends and be part of a larger social circle.
AMY HUGHES When I was 17, I went to India for six weeks and had what, at the time, was a very challenging trip....
CHRIS HUGHES I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've...
ADAM HUGHES Play off everyone against each other so that you have more avenues of action open to you.
HOWARD HUGHES To my mind, it is the duty of the younger Negro artist, if he accepts any duties at all from outside...
LANGSTON HUGHES My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My fav...
LANGSTON HUGHES Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or ...
LANGSTON HUGHES What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.
JOHN HUGHES Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It invo...
THOMAS HUGHES A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but soun...
GLENN HUGHES Many filmmakers portray teenagers as immoral and ignorant, with pursuits that are pretty base... But...
JOHN HUGHES Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.
LANGSTON HUGHES Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing ...
LANGSTON HUGHES Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beatin...
LANGSTON HUGHES I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write anoth...
JOHN HUGHES Even the 'Negro' shows like 'Amos and Andy' and 'Beulah' are written largely...
LANGSTON HUGHES I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.
CLARA HUGHES Federated had two good years in 1998 and 1999, but before that its performance was middling at best,...
BRIDGET HUGHES If a fund's performance is mediocre, or the fund is having other troubles, average to above-average ...
BRIDGET HUGHES This fund snaps up fast-moving firms of all market caps, trying to cut them loose before they overhe...
BRIDGET HUGHES If you want to invest in emerging markets, invest in a good manager. Although emerging market funds ...
BRIDGET HUGHES I started skating because I loved it. I started when I was three and I didn't know all the sacri...
SARAH HUGHES My general feeling is that date make-up should be an honest advertisement for a potential relationsh...
SALI HUGHES And that's how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can regist...
TED HUGHES Looks like what drives me crazy
Don't have no effect on you--
But I'm gonna keep on at it<...
LANGSTON HUGHES