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

• To write long pieces - or not even long pieces - to write stuff like the columns of Red Smith and people like that - they're different then what it is today. Everything today is based on x's and o's. Inside baseball, it's all, 'Who's gonna win?' or you're comparing things - it's not as thoughtful as it used to be.

  

  Frank Deford
  • People
  • Different
  • Long

• Bob Saget is the bear from the Golden Crisp box.

  

  King Tuff

• Personally, I think I did horribly on him in the first half. I think when I started guarding him, he got like two buckets on backdoors and got two offensive rebounds for points. I was really frustrated with that. In the second half, we just played tougher, played harder and played smarter, and we really gave it to him.

  

  Bobby Frasor
  • Played
  • Frustrated
  • Smarter

• It's about making small changes at first and adding foods to your diet before you take any away; start with one extra vegetable or fruit at every meal, and hey, presto, that's 21 portions a week.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Small

• Say what you want but you NEVER say it with violence!

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Want
  • Never
  • Violence

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

  

  John Hughes