J. B. Hughes Quotes

Endless night of Eternal love in the heart of the French Quarter. Tears of Crimson, the New Orleans Vampire Bar.

The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.

Whether David believed in her affliction or not didn’t change the fact that it existed, and some day it would catch up with her.

Silence gives notice to the music of the senses that would otherwise not be heard.

The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.

Once you're in the rumor mill, you never come out. You're stuck, constantly hearing the same half-truth stories about yourself.

Anyone who takes a decided line in certain matters, is sure to lead all the rest.

...every now and then I watched him beam at Olivia. He obviously adored her. And I realized that meeting her father made me look at Olivia differently. She was somebody's little girl.

Waddya want me to do? through my sling shot at him?

Shopkeepers —the great landed and commercial interests—regularly sat and slept, and where the two publicans occupied pews, but seldom made even the pretence of worshipping.

This work of making trade righteous, of Christianizing trade, looks like the very hardest the Gospel has ever had to take in hand—in England at any rate.

Grey hoped the Church would yet be able to save England from the fate of Tyre or Carthage, the great trading nations

There were pecans, there were cashews and then there was just plain nuts.

The truly scary thing about undiscovered lies is that they have a greater capacity to diminish us than exposed ones. They erode our strength, our self-esteem, our very foundation.

I was born when he kissed me, I died when he left me, I lived a few weeks while he loved me

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden deaths do.

If Moses had been a committee the Israelites would still be in Egypt.

We are under a Constitution but the Constitution is what the judges say it is.

While democracy must have its organization and controls its vital breath is individual liberty.

As I was going up the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish I wish he'd stay away.

All that non-fiction can do is answer questions. It's fiction's business to ask them.

The universe is not hostile nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.

His ears made him look like a taxi cab with both doors open.

I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well you are certain they will get better.

Her face was her chaperone.

It is not work that kills men it is worry. Work is healthy you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.