John Hughes Quotes

When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

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• I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• It's really exciting to be able to represent the cruiserweights and go to Monday Night Raw. I grew up watching Monday Night Raw, and it's really a big dream of mine to perform on that stage.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Night

• The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Hands
  • Horse
  • Monday

• Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Time
  • Train

• It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Experience
  • Born
  • Saturday

• I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Friends
  • Song

• You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Work
  • Done
  • Want

• 'Antiques Roadshow' is my favorite show. Every Monday night I have one hour of appointment television. I get the popcorn out and tell my husband, 'Don't bother me.'

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Night
  • Me
  • Husband

• There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

  

  Ed McMahon
  • People
  • Time
  • House

• For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Different
  • May
  • Support

• Your abuse of our gowns amuses but does not discourage me; I shall take mine to be made up next week, and the more I look at it the better it pleases me. My cloak came on Tuesday, and, though I expected a good deal, the beauty of the lace astonished me. It is too handsome to be worn - almost too handsome to be looked at.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Up
  • Good
  • Abuse

• If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure – because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society – then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.

  

  Clive Barker
  • Great
  • May
  • Night

• I don't miss the limelight, not at all. I'm just more comfortable out of it. I don't miss 'Monday Night Football.' I just don't miss it. I'm lucky. When I stopped playing, I didn't miss it. I feel blessed that it's not been a problem. I have great memories. I feel really lucky.

  

  Don Meredith
  • Great
  • Night
  • Football

• The game is not won by a pep talk on Saturday. It's won by preparation of your club from Monday until game time. If they're not ready on Saturday, you're not going to get them ready by trying to inspire them with a dog-eat-dog sermon on that day.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Game

• Mateen pledged allegiance to ISIS during his attack, the worst terror attack on American soil since 9/11.

  

  Peter Bergen
  • American

• The whole world opened to me when I learned to read.

  

  Mary McLeod Bethune
  • World

• I was 11 when a teacher suggested to my parents that they should send me to drama classes to curb my disruptive ways in the classroom. The next Saturday I was acting, and thereafter it became a ritual of my youth to see a show at the Belvoir on Sundays and, if I was lucky, another at the Opera House on Monday after school.

  

  David Wenham
  • School
  • House
  • Parents

• My creative process is a bit manic at times, to be honest. I wake up Monday and Thursday stressed because I don't have a video. I usually - with the exception of maybe a handful of videos - wake up, write the video, shoot the video, edit the video, release the video all in the same day.

  

  Lilly Singh
  • Up
  • Monday
  • Thursday

• Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Book
  • Me
  • Face

• Politics, for me, is not a competition to see who's got the bigger ego. It's working together for the good of the people.

  

  Mauricio Macri
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.'

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Thinking
  • Book

• My daughter is full energy, like my wife and I, and strong-minded and has an opinion, like we do. And my boys, one's a bit more calm and chill, and the other is much more sensitive to things. You see this right away, when they're first born. One cried, one didn't, with the boys.

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • Strong
  • Energy
  • Wife

• When I was in college, my whole goal was to write for the 'Village Voice,' and I think I was doing that by the time I was twenty-one or twenty, so everything else has kind of been gravy, you know?

  

  Neil Strauss
  • Time
  • College

• When I did 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', I had the idea on Monday and the following Tuesday it was in budget at Paramount. I couldn't walk.

  

  John Hughes
  • Monday
  • Tuesday