Hugh Quotes

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.

Playboy, very clearly, from the outset, has fought against the historical repression of women. The notion that we were anywhere else simply defies the reality.

We shall not surrender.

I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work.

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people.

I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look.

Because of the nature of my life, it's difficult for people to recognize that a person can live a full life, and maybe an unorthodox life, and still be on the side of the angels.

The best part about being married is that feeling of being a team. All couples have ups and downs, so having someone you trust is priceless

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in the twilight of a civilization he is chiefly a taxpaying animal.

Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

To tell you the truth, man, we spend most of the time travelling in hotels, in festivals, in concert halls, clubs, airports. The most unenjoyable part is all the security at airports.

I could do with more mobbing. Particularly from women. I'd like to be treated like Ricky Martin.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

My strength has now been reduced to the equivalent of 36 squadrons...we should be able to carry on the war single-handed for some time if not indefinitely.

I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

Most words evolved as a description of the outside world, hence their inadequacy to describe what is going on inside me.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my film idols.

People get their information in different ways now. And we are a little poorer for it, because the way you get information affects what you learn.

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before.

The thing we need most is each other.

Coaches are sales people and change agents.

How pleasant it is to have money.

They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.

The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

My gosh, I love food. If I wasn't an actor, I could be a completely different body shape right now.

We really must keep under control, and pretty strict control, the area within which 'The Man in Whitehall' knows best.

Whenever I find myself arguing for something with great passion, I can be certain I'm not convinced.

I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a 'flat white.' It's like a small latte with less milk - they're popular in Australia.

In olden times an enemy was sometimes poisoned by a bouquet,--deceit sugar-coated.

Even a brilliant research scientist can waste his or her efforts, in [Stephan Hawking's] case on theoretically impossible lines of research, if he or she rejects clear evidence pointing to God.

There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each other's lives.

Everybody marches to a different drummer.

People don't need to become more aware of poverty - they need to know how to end it.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

GOOD IDEAS ALTER THE BALANCE IN RELATIONSHIPS. THAT IS WHY GOOD IDEAS ARE ALWAYS INITIALLY RESISTED.

To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.

I think getting married was a mistake along the way, but at the same time I wouldn't have the wonderful children I have if I didn't get married.

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.

It's not all rainbows and ponies.

I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.

I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino.

The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.