J. B. Hughes Quotes

These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.

When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.

I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.

It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job.

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.

I think you learn how to write by reading an enormous amount, so then your memory is stocked with various constructions, various ways of shaping a paragraph, shaping a chapter.

Givers for God disarm the power of money.

A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.

Works of art... do not force meanings on their audience; meaning emerges, adds up, unfolds from their imagined centres... takes one through the process of discovering meaning.

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

It is an oldish question, but not perhaps a very interesting one, whether cooking is an art or not.

One thing is sure: the Sagrada Familia is the first Catholic temple whose bacon was ever saved by Shinto tourism. Not even Gaudi, who believed in miracles, could have forseen that.

No art goes unmediated by other art.

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks.

America is a construction of mind, not of race or inherited class or ancestral territory.

But the existence of a cult does not mean that images appropriate to it automatically follow.

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

On Platini's presidential watch... he has to balance all the leagues, all the dreams and needs of hundreds of clubs across his continent.

The desire to be primitive was very much a function of fin-de-siècle imperialism; it appealed to strong egos and domineering minds.

In America, nostalgia for things is apt to set in before they go.

Katarina Witt. She was the ultimate competitor. She would just stare down people before competition. She was relentless on the ice.

The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown

Dermot Reeve was so self-obsessed that even on the local nudist beach he only admired himself

Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room

Applause is the beginning of abuse

The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me.

The jaws' hooked clamp and fangs Not to be changed at this date; A life subdued to its instrument.

In the pit of red You hid from the bone-clinic whiteness But the jewel you lost was blue.

Nobody knew the Iron Man had fallen. Night passed.

So the self under the eye lies, Attendant and withdrawn.

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world.

Heaven, they say, protects children, sailors, and drunken men; and whatever answers to Heaven in the academical system protects freshmen.

Whatever your story, the world does not need to mould you.

Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.

Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows, Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be.

So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was born.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry--I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.

Looks like what drives me crazyDon't have no effect on you--But I'm gonna keep on at itTill it drives you crazy, too.

Cheap little rhymesA cheap little tuneAre sometimes as dangerousAs a sliver of the moon.

Out of love, No regrets--Though the goodnessBe wasted forever.Out of love, No regrets--Though the returnBe never.

Pleasured equallyIn seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seekingAnd finding.

I stay cool, and dig all jive, That's the way I stay alive.My motto, as I live and learn, isDig and be dugIn return.

Hold fast to dreamsfor if dreams dielife is a broken-winged birdthat can not fly.Hold fast to dreamsfor when dreams golife is a barren fieldfrozen with snow.

God in his infinite wisdomDid not make me very wise-So when my actions are stupidThey hardly take God by surprise.