E. J. Hughes Quotes

Ads shouldn't be in people's way.

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

For 20 years I've had the privilege of representing Canada around the globe... first on the bike and then on my blades. The experiences have shaped me into who I am today.

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

I love working with kids and I want to just be able to do it from my heart and not as a job.

My goal is to try to avoid a regular job.

With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.

If we believe in them, love them and trust them, they see who they are through our eyes.

This is a highly reliable power source. Being a large credit card processor, doing $6 million an hour in transactions, our computers have to work.

If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life.

I stared at the television in shock, watching as my private life was revealed to the world.

I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.

Parents are the weak link in the chain when it comes to protecting their children.

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.

It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.

Worry, about the 'thousand and one' details entailed. My one-track mind has to be relieved of these worries completely or I cannot get started working on my paintings, or even get to sleep at night.

I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.

The small figures that appear in my paintings are there only because they were there when I was working from nature on my preliminary sketches with pencil.

One of the things I like about our contract is that you have relieved me of a great deal of personal interviewing and corresponding, among other things, which allows me a lot more time for painting.

It has been said that if the opening phrase of a classical minuet can be fitted to the words "Are you the O'Reilly who owns this hotel?" then it was written by Haydn; if it can't then it wasn't.

I thank God for his many blessings he has given me, but money and prestige are not what it's about. I seek spiritual progression.

Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!

I love the art form of songwriting. I get to carry a lot of vibes to a lot of people. My songs are all about the human condition, and people will be able to find themselves in my songs.

I suppose it's really satisfying to play someone with secrets. It's really satisfying to decide how and when those things are going to start being revealed, and how subtle to be.

I'm incredibly grateful for Sophie Barthes, I'll always be incredibly grateful for her being generous enough to believe in what I thought. And it was just lucky that I met the right person.

If you want an honest dialogue, you can't criticize someone for what they say. You can't teach someone to think in a certain way.

There was still an element in acting, certainly for my dad, of like, "This is lunacy." But then once my parents could tell that I was serious, it was like, "Okay then."

Once you get an agent you're given an opportunity to try a little bit more. It's a really long ladder.

A man's tie should never be louder than his wife.

I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.

It would be a nice problem to have. It would mean we had reached the final. I'd like to think common sense would prevail and we'd have the use of both of them.

The outpouring of generosity is overwhelming. People across the Lehigh Valley are moved by the images they are seeing on TV and they want to know how they can help.

I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly.

Frankly, the people probably most interested in having computer lists on disk are junk mail vendors and solicitors.

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.

I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

If we are going to commit American troops, we must be certain they have a clear mission, an achievable goal and an exit strategy.

Many of us will not survive our tests in mortality without help from others. And just as true: in helping others we keep our own spirits alive.

I thought 'I can't be an actor, I can't'. Then this film came up and it was like someone saying to me, 'You can, don't give up'.

I absolutely love being a mother. It's been a blessing. It's fun and it's hard, but it's absolutely amazing.

I come from a big family, so I'd like to have a big family.

The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night And I love the rain.

I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!

As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have my own window to shoot from.

Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.

A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.

Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro - and beautiful!

Your explanation depresses me," I said. "Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple.

Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?