Langston Hughes Quotes

For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

Langston Hughes

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• If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Understand

• Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Know
  • Drama
  • Movies

• I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Pretty
  • Everything
  • Taste

• When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Kids
  • You
  • Mom

• We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Value

• What I find is that it's the middle-aged authors who have lived a life who have the most important, interesting voices. They just need someone to give them the key to unlock the door.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Life
  • Important
  • Interesting

• I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Movie

• Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Live
  • Money
  • Job

• I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Peace
  • Myself
  • Shoes

• Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

  

  Yves Tanguy
  • Work
  • Community
  • Geography

• Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Work
  • Recognition
  • Worthy

• I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Me

• In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Up
  • Day
  • Summer

• I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Remember
  • Dad
  • Moving

• My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles when 'West Side Story' was real. They have the scars to prove it.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Real
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Pat Buchanan likes to say we're in a culture war. The Civil War was a culture war, and brothers killed brothers. I wonder if they avoided dinner conversation about politics. What if this culture war turned into a real war? I'd look back on that dinner and wish that I'd ordered a side of argument.6

  

  Ze Frank
  • Real
  • War
  • Culture

• I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Great

• Kierkegaard writes: If Christianity were so easy and cozy, why should God in his Scriptures have set Heaven and Earth in motion and threatened eternal punishments? - Question: But then in that case why is this Scriptures so unclear?

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • God
  • Why
  • Earth

• For me, one of the most important things I look for in an actor is whether we can converse. Do we have a similar ability to discuss a character?

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • Important
  • Character

• I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Crime
  • Fiction
  • Lewis

• Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Self
  • Defense
  • Poison

• 'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those heavenly bodies, shooting stars, the crescent moon, celestial phenomenon. Owls fly at night, and first kisses happen. Night is romantic. Alternately, darkness hides the worst of human behavior.

  

  Luanne Rice
  • Night
  • Moon
  • Romantic

• We want to get this good music to as many people as possible because I think it heals, it soothes, I think music is incredibly important, especially in today's chaos.

  

  Graham Nash
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.

  

  Langston Hughes