J. B. Hughes Quotes

To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.

I have been treated as a freak, rather like the fat lady at the circus.

A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people.

A taste of righteousness can be easily perverted into an overweening sense of self-righteousness and judgmentalism.

There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude.

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

The aeroplane is an invention of the devil and will never play any part in such a serious business as the defence of the nation, my boy!

What happens in the heart simply happens.

I want to leave behind me the name of a fellow who never bullied a little boy, or turned his back on a big one.

War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

Profit per se is not my motive.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

You're only as good as your last dish.

That's what is most satisfying, is having overcome that pain. Pain that is so intense that when you finish, it feels like you're going to die. That's what I wanted, and that's what I got.

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.

I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do.

I am kind of like a diesel. It is the cyclist in me.

Since it was too difficult to get into the Screen Actor's Guild in New York, I moved to Miami in 1982 and started a successful career as a television commercial actress, obtaining my SAG card there.

I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.

It was hard to turn down the money since I didn't have a job, but I didn't want to exploit my notoriety because I knew the way I'd been living was wrong.

At thirteen I began modeling, doing my first television commercial in ninth grade for Pizza Hut.

Before the group left, Gary asked for my phone number, and the next day he called to ask me to dinner that night. I had no idea he was married, but I found out that night.

It’s harder to come back than it is to arrive.

One of the main reasons I paint is because I think nature is so wonderful. I want to try to get my feelings of that down on canvas, if possible.

My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.

Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.

As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.

It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.

It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.

When I see these primitive effects coming into my pictures subconsciously, even though the perspective may be slightly out, I leave them in if it helps the general composition.

It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.

Unfortunately when I start to talk or when someone watches over my shoulders my pencil either stops or I draw meaningless lines.

I've found from years of trial that the only way I can work is to make sketches in pencil from Nature, purely as reference material for future use in the studio.

I don't know just what, but there will have to be some drastic changes made besides cutting down on boating to get my mind more on painting.

If I didn't have a conviction that a serious painter can portray Nature more profoundly than the best colour photography, I'd probably give it all up or go abstract or take up photography.

The primitive style makes nature look like stage scenery.

I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.

I hope my work isn't dismissed by the critics as illustration or photography.

It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.

When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singing just for you, you may be right!

Free and just political institutions are absolutely essential to the progress and development both of the individual and of the race.

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

And when I started college, I think I was good at two things: arguing and asking questions.