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Quotes About Hughes

Hughes might discuss Calvinism ably, but he did not live it, he was—by Time corporate standards—just a little lazy.
~ David Halberstam
Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?
~ Langston Hughes
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
~ Gene Tierney
He had again seen it in the insignia of S.H.A.D.O. – the 'Supreme Headquarters, Alien Defence Organisation' from the TV show UFO.
~ Rian Hughes
I thought the first Welsh team I played in was the golden generation, with Neville Southall, Mark Hughes, Ian Rush, Dean Saunders, Gary Speed, and Ryan Giggs.
~ Chris Coleman
If we are going to ask questions of the defensive guys, then we are going to ask questions of the guys at the top end as well.
~ Mark Hughes
No. But we do have to spend enough money to make Hughes pass for a Russian oligarch. That Tommy Bahama look won't cut it.
~ Andrew Mayne
Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.
~ Robert Hughes
Only when Brub had acknowledged the introduction and turned to his wife did the waver of fear come to her.
~ Dorothy B. Hughes
It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.
~ Walter Keane
The fundamental difference between us and the terror network we fight is that we value every life.
~ Karen Hughes
There are no legends about the Duponts; the legends are about Howard Hughes.
~ John Gregory Dunne
I wanted to be Langston Hughes.
~ Jason Reynolds
The second Hughes fight was a huge reality check. But it didn't hit me right away.
~ B. J. Penn
he comes across as alarmingly unpredictable, leaping out at unsuspecting passers-by and startling them with a moral challenge.
~ Bettany Hughes
Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
~ Langston Hughes
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
~ Robert Hughes
Further testimony and legal documents reflected an impressive list of former business partners, including Howard Hughes cohort Robert Maheu and Texas oil magnate Clint Murchison.
~ Kenn Thomas
The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.
~ Gene Tierney
I'd seen all of John Hughes's movies. All the Spielberg stuff. A bunch of '80s horror, like 'Evil Dead.'
~ Finn Wolfhard
Good morning, daddy!Ain't you heardThe boogie-woogie rumbleOf a dream deferred?
~ Langston Hughes
Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.
~ Langston Hughes
Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me
~ Langston Hughes
There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it
~ Esther Williams