Barry Hughart Quotes

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

Barry Hughart

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• Hip-hop is a vehicle.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Hip Hop
  • Vehicle

• I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Life
  • Music
  • Guy

• I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Die

• I think that probably the time that people stopped thinking of Starbuck as 'a woman' was when they stopped thinking of the old show.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• Whenever I get days off, I go home, or friends and family come up. I'm in contact with them every day, so it's like we live next door, but obviously we live in two different countries. Football is my job, and everyone around me has given me the opportunity to purely concentrate on football, and everyone else worries about everything else.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

  

  Mae West
  • You
  • Funny
  • Clean

• I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Women

• I don't think that much change comes from economists. I think it comes more from political realities. Probably the two giants of the 20th century, who actually did shift government policy in the U.S. and around the world, were John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman. I don't see anybody in our system who is at that level of influence.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • World
  • Political
  • Change

• Our main goal is to honor God and to honor this country by honoring and serving those families who serve.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • God
  • Country
  • Goal

• How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Father
  • Man
  • Shadow

• I had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Normal

• Whate'erI may have been, or am, doth rest betweenHeaven and myself; I shall not choose a mortalTo be my mediator.

  

  Lord Byron
  • May
  • Rest

• In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • People
  • Up

• The subject may appear an insignificant one, but we shall see that it possesses some interest; and the maxim 'de minimis lex non curat,' does not apply to science.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • May
  • Science

• I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out.

  

  Mark Skousen
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Wall

• I've always loved clothes, especially handbags and shoes. I'd rather save my money on clothing and wear crap, but have the handbags and shoes. I used to buy a Ferragamo or Louis Vuitton bag every job that I got. Now I have a child, and we pay for private school, so I've had to scale back!

  

  Alicia Coppola
  • School
  • Money
  • Job

• Eat some pizza, play some Xbox, watch some TV. Gross? Maybe. Me? Yes.

  

  Dustin Diamond
  • Pizza

• My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Eyes

• Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of what is officially taught and generally accepted, is less and less likely to thrive. It is, we repeat, by far easier to enslave a literate people than an illiterate one, strange as this may seem at first sight. And the enslavement is more likely to be lasting.

  

  Savitri Devi
  • People
  • Real
  • Strange

• I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

  

  John D. Long
  • Men
  • War

• My father died five days before I returned to New York. He was only fifty-three years old. My parents and my father's doctor had all decided it was wiser for me to go to South America than to stay home and see Papa waste away. For a long time, I felt an enormous sense of guilt about having left my father's side when he was so sick.

  

  Beverly Sills
  • Time
  • Long
  • Home

• I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don't feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Hair
  • Feels
  • Color

• It's a very confusing experience living as a woman in Japan. If your husband is white-collar, the wife is blue. Even if you marry a person of status, the wife inevitably remains a rung below.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Experience
  • Wife
  • Woman

• Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can.

  

  Barry Hughart