Hugh Quotes

I just don't believe in love at first sight any more, even though I've based my whole career on the concept.

The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.

Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.

Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.

I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering, that there is a sort of psychic economy, whereby if you embrace success, happiness and comfort, these things have to be paid for.

If a man takes off his sunglasses I can hear him better.

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.

We came back right over the World Trade Center, and could see, even from that altitude the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

We may not be weaklings because we have a strong enemy.

When your dreams becoming reality, they're no longer your dreams.

Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous.

When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.

All my experiences removed geography from my world.

I grew up with protests, marches, demonstrations, struggle. But I come from a clan of community workers.

Poverty keeps together more homes than it breaks up.

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history.

I would just hear piano players and I would hear music, and just think - I don't just want to sit here and passively listen; I want to get inside it.

At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.

You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

Look, my philosophy in life is expect nothing and everything is a bonus.

I was raised in a truly typical Midwestern home with a lot of repression. My life, and the creation of Playboy, were a response to that repression.

Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

My first wife was a brunette, and Barbi Benton, my major romantic relationship of the early 1970s, was a brunette. But since the end of my marriage, all of my girlfriends have been blonds.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.

Of course UFOs are real-and they are interplanetary.....The cumulative evidence for the existence of UFOs is quite overwhelming and I accept the fact of their existence.

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.

Now [after doing Pilates], I have muscles of steel and could easily deal with giving birth.

Afloat.We move: Delicious! Ah, What else is like the gondola?

Doing anything worthwhile takes forever.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

I don't think what I do is influenced by suffering. I come from a talented people who are prolific in music and dance.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!

This country is a one-party country. Half of it is called Republican and half is called Democrat. It doesn't make any difference. All the really good ideas belong to the Libertarians.

In many ways, Im younger than I was 20 years ago.

Keep on being yourself.

If I had my way... there wouldn't be a single lion or tiger in captivity anywhere in the world. They never take to it. They're never happy. They never settle down... You can see it in their eyes.

When a man but half forgives his enemy, it is like leaving a bag of rusty nails to interpose between them.

Some people will like me and some won't. So I might as well be myself, and then at least I'll know that the people who like me, like me.

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.

Next time I will ..." "From now on I will ..." - What makes me think I am wiser today than I will be tomorrow?

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.