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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. — Langston Hughes

Real love is intentional, an act of the will. — Barbara Hughes

Just because you never look at me doesn't mean I'm not here. — Mark Peter Hughes

How much tragedy has to happen before I split wide open?
Sam Hughes — Alisa Mullen

It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. — Ted Hughes

A simple tale, told at the right moment, transforms a person's life with the order its pattern brings to incoherent energies. (Myth and Education) — Ted Hughes

Tell all my mourners
To mourn in red-
Cause there ain't no sense
In my bein' dead. — Langston Hughes

The wolf is living for the earth. — Ted Hughes

The prerequisite for writing is having something to say. — Langston Hughes

So the self under the eye lies,
Attendant and withdrawn. — Ted Hughes

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. — Langston Hughes

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? — Robert Hughes

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people. — Chris Hughes

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

Legalism is man-centered; discipline is God-centered. — Barbara Hughes

It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors. — E. J. Hughes

We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves. — Langston Hughes

And I was reminded once again how a song really can change the world. — Mark Peter Hughes

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. — Tamara Hughes

She was like having our own nanny, the Sex Nanny Sent By Satan. — Mark Peter Hughes

Gather out of star-dust, Earth-dust, Cloud-dust, Storm-dust, And splinters of hail, One handful of dream-dust, Not for sale. — Langston Hughes

I find that screen kissing wears very thin very quickly. — John Hughes

I don't want to be too cool. You get so caught up with whether you're doing it right. — John Hughes

Now, I am completely independent - I earn my living by speaking and writing. — Karen Hughes

I can assure you we are all strong-willed, forceful personalities and the president encourages vigorous debate. — Karen Hughes

My life with Howard Hughes was and shall remain a matter on which I will have no comment. — Jean Peters

How can there be too many typefaces in the world? Are there too many songs, too many books, too many places to go? — Rian Hughes

Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude. — Robert Hughes

I just skated for the fun of it. — Sarah Hughes

That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order." "What a task! He ought to have three heads. — Thomas Hughes

Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice! — Glenn Hughes

Napoleon was in high spirits. He dined on potatoes fried — Jack Hughes

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it. — Esther Williams

The real mystery is this strange need. Why can't we just hide it and shut up? Why do we have to blab? Why do human beings need to confess? — Ted Hughes

Sometimes people do misguided things for the most honorable of reasons. — Tamara Hughes

Rest at pale evening ... A tall slim tree ... Night coming tenderly Black like me — Langston Hughes

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

I don't think I'm making any great statements, and I certainly don't think I'm making art. — John Hughes

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks. — Michael J. Fox

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true. — Langston Hughes

Then everybody wept,
Or sat, too exhausted to weep,
Or lay, too hurt to weep. — Ted Hughes

With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed. — Ted Hughes

Her face was her chaperone. — Rupert Hughes

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built ... I put the sweat of my life into this thing. — Howard Hughes

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

What happens in the heart, simply happens — Ted Hughes

Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between. — Langston Hughes

All I care about in this goddamn life are me, my drums, and you. — John Hughes

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. — Dean Hughes

Happiness is not something you have in your hands; it is something you carry in your heart. — Al Hughes

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

A nerd will be a nerd all his life. — John Hughes

I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie. — Joel Edgerton

If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes. — Pearl Cleage

And if you don't accept my challenge," shouted the Iron Man, "then you're a miserable cowardly reptile, not fit to bother with. — Ted Hughes

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

If pornographers can hook adolescents when their hormones are raging, they know they'll have an ongoing consumer base for life. — Donna Rice Hughes

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

He was his own leftover, the spat-out scrag. He was what his brain could make nothing of. — Ted Hughes

I shall also take you forth and carve our names together in a yew tree, haloed with stars ... — Ted Hughes

Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education. — Thomas Hughes

I think the greatest records we've ever heard, from Zeppelin to Purple to Sabbath to The Who, were all recorded in the studio live. — Glenn Hughes

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! — Glenn Hughes

It was a dream of mine to be an Olympic champion but not a lifelong goal. — Sarah Hughes

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers. — Nicolas Winding Refn

God can have our money and not have our hearts, but He cannot have our hearts without having our money. — R. Kent Hughes

We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line. — Langston Hughes

My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I hate him." Poseidon to his brother, Zeus. — Yelle Hughes

Some word - from before this translation — Ted Hughes

I'm also working with Mrs. Bush on some education projects in Afghanistan, so I get to see her a great deal. — Karen Hughes

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

Let the rain sing you a lullaby. — Langston Hughes

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying. — Langston Hughes

Yes, he is not unused to playing in midfield, but at the same time he's not used to playing there either. — Emlyn Hughes

We are guilty of idolatry every time we think about God in any way other than the way Scripture portrays Him. — Barbara Hughes

God in his infinite wisdom
Did not make me very wise-
So when my actions are stupid
They hardly take God by surprise. — Langston Hughes

What happened casually remains - — Ted Hughes

That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out. — Adam Hughes

She carried her head like a lady and her body like a snake. — Dorothy B. Hughes

Parents are the weak link in the chain when it comes to protecting their children. — Donna Rice Hughes

Passion will make you crazy, but is there any other way to live? — Howard Hughes

He who helps destroy the boll-weevil has done as constructive work as he who plants the seed. — Rupert Hughes

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

As a child I wanted to become an architect. — Chris Hughes

All angels are men, all men are crows, and all crows are liars. — Laura M Hughes

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

Foget Murphy's Law. Nixe's Law: if you were waiting to make a left turn, there was always one oncoming fucktard who sailed through on the red. — Mary Hughes

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. — Clara Hughes

Faith has played a major role in my life. Whenever I feel an obstacle is too great, I can always go to God in prayer and He'll help me through it. — Patrick Henry Hughes

Worry is only rust on the blade. — Henry Hughes

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. — Sylvia Plath

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public — Robert Hughes

Those were times when brave men who knew and loved their profession couldn't be overlooked. — Thomas Hughes

A crucified Savior is not well served by self-pleasing, self-indulging people. — R. Kent Hughes

Your explanation depresses me," I said.
"Your nonsense depresses me," said Simple. — Langston Hughes

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was - by Time corporate standards - just a little lazy. — David Halberstam

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941. — Gene Tierney

We don't have a monopoly. Anyone who wants to dig a well without a Hughes bit can always use a pick and shovel. — Howard Hughes

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams ... — Langston Hughes

I swear to the Lord,I still can't see,Why Democracy means,Everybody but me. — Langston Hughes