Hugh Quotes

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.

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

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

Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.

The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you can use it to buy things.

I just love making a fool out of myself. I made my living as a clown at kids' parties for about three years.

This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won't, and we can't mend it.

If the ocean was pure mind and I was a wave, I would be in terror if Itried to distinguish myself fromthe water that produced me.What is a wave without water, and what is a mind without God?

To have memories of those you have loved and lost is perhaps harder than to have no memories.

Moods should be heard but never danced to.

Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out.

In this crucible of wickedness the true greatness of Mormon shines like a star.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

We're separated by our myths.

I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated.

If I'm a lush at anything, it's food and drink. I'm not materialistic in any way, but I value food.

The sky is full of tokens which speak to the intelligent.

There is no place love is not.

Practice is the battle you must win.

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

When I left South Africa in 1960 I was 20 years old. I wanted to try to get an education, and music education was not available for me in South Africa.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

Life begins when you do.

I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time.

A sense of humor is needed armor.

I remain good friends with most of the major relationships in my life.

People project their own dreams, fantasies, and prejudices onto my life. So people are either fans, or jealous, or disagree. Everybody marches to a different drummer.

Acting is not very good for relationships - but very good for when they are over.

Tomorrow, the market will probably continue upward driven by the dollar, but it won't go up much because of caution before the employment figures.

There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn't married. You have to keep your hand in.

Creating my own world in a comic or selling my first penny newspaper aged nine was a way of gaining recognition and acceptance by my peers.

[Recent evidence regarding quantum mechanics is] sufficient to rule out all theological options but one - the Bible's.

If the strong nuclear force were slightly weaker, multi-proton nuclei would not hold together. Hydrogen would be the only element in the universe.

The plan of salvation as stated in the Bible can be seen through observation of the universe around us.

Unilateralism is not internationalism, It is nationalist egotism gone mad.

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

O that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel!

Wolverine was created in the '60s, but he feels like a '70s character in every way. More Dirty Harry, more politically incorrect, the hair, the mutton chops.

You have to eat before you train. Otherwise, that really intense training, after about 40 minutes you start to flag.

I guess you could say, I'm just a typical Methodist kid at heart.