J. B. Hughes Quotes

As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

Believing everything she read In the daily news, (No in-between to choose) She thought that only One side won, Not that BOTH Might lose.

Never look for a worm in the apple of your eye.

It's such a Bore Being always Poor.

Sometimes a crumb falls From the tables of joy, Sometimes a bone Is flung. To some people Love is given, To others Only heaven.

Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?

I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.

I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.

Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul

Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

Harriet Tubman lived to see the harvest.

A great cricketer must be an artist and express himself in his strokes.

Listen well, and you will be pronounced a "brilliant" conversationalist!

God is sovereign. His grace cannot be tamed.

The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive.

Art grows out of modes of perception that make you feel and think...that hooks on to something deep-running in our natures.

In art there is no progress, only fluctuations of intensity.

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

Why should we expect modernist taste to be any smarter than premodernist or postmodernist?

The hallmark of the minor artist is to be obsessed with style as an end in itself.

We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism

There's no geist like the Zeitgeist.

We have entered a period of intolerance which combines, as it sometimes does in America, with a sugary taste for euphemism.

If you want to be successful in the gym, in the classroom, in college or when you get out and go into the world of work, that is going to be determined by how hard you are willing to work.

An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden, provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.

The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight.

It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.

Worry... is rust upon the blade.

What happened casually remains -

And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want. And that's his idea of a compromise.

Life isn't all beer and skittles.

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that.

I so desperately hate to end these movies that the first thing I do when I'm done is write another one. Then I don't feel sad about having to leave and everybody going away.

But most automotive dealerships are set up for customer acquisition - which is crazy when you consider the average cost of customer acquisition is $1,000 or more.

Sometimes when you're looking for an answer, you search everywhere else before you take a look at what's right in front of you.

I'm stronger knowing that while Donna Rice could be sold, she could not be bought.

Nobody can take away your future. Nobody can take away something you don't have yet.

Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?

Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun.

The fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life.

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.

Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.

Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake.

Hard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

To some people Love is given, To others Only Heaven.