John Hughes Quotes

What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.

John Hughes

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• When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to learn about themselves instead of change each other, they are infusing their relationship with the energy of spiritual partnership.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • People
  • Energy
  • Change

• I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Work
  • Taken

• What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Pretty
  • Say
  • Potatoes

• I would have loved to have been a cricketer.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Loved
  • Would
  • Been

• I have to earn re-election. That's the way I see it.

  

  Yvette Clarke
  • Way
  • See
  • Earn

• It's true that hydropower exploitation can bring economic development, but not necessarily to the benefit of local people.

  

  Ma Jun
  • People
  • True
  • Development

• No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Age
  • Unique

• I used to tell people if they looked at a map, it was right in the middle of the United States. But now everybody knows Oklahoma because of the Thunder and their success. I don't know if I'll get 'Why?' anymore.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Why
  • Success

• It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.

  

  Kate Mara
  • People
  • Love
  • Exciting

• I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Man
  • Always
  • Sound

• History proves abundantly that pure science, undertaken without regard to applications to human needs, is usually ultimately of direct benefit to mankind.

  

  Irving Langmuir
  • History
  • Science
  • Human

• The Beatles, the Small Faces and the Kinks were great bands, but that was in the '60s.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Great
  • Small
  • Beatles

• Sunday, I go to church; I take the day off. I rest.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Day
  • Church
  • Rest

• When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Moon
  • Living
  • Year

• Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Time
  • Men
  • Action

• There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • People
  • Country
  • May

• You can get through your whole day only around people who will tell you that you're wonderful. But pretty soon they're going to have to be lying about that.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Day

• The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches, and then moves on.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • City
  • Cat

• The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • Writing
  • Reading

• This crusade to separate church and state is only one expression of my raison d'être. I'm an atheist, but I'm also an anarchist, and a feminist, and an integrationist.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Church
  • Raison

• Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

  

  Darold Treffert
  • Thinking
  • Brain
  • Autism

• As a professional athlete I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before.

  

  Chael Sonnen
  • Fighting
  • Feels
  • Emotion

• What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.

  

  John Hughes