Langston Hughes Quotes
Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
-
Women dress very much according to their moods, so when you see their shoes, it really shows you the character and what they want to show to the world, and what they are feeling at that time.
-
I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
-
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
-
In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
-
It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
-
The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
-
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
-
I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.
-
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
-
With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.
-
If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
-
I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
-
Being a recognised face has its problems. I miss the freedom to go anywhere I want to.
-
US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
-
People are incredible creatures of habit.
-
The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
-
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
-
It's just wrong to work your whole life to build up a nest egg, build your own business - you pass away, and Uncle Sam can swoop in and take away nearly half of everything you've earned. Can you imagine that? Having to sell off most of your land just to keep it from the government, just to save the house.
-
I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; it's a very specific task.
-
No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning.
-
I've never had an easy relationship with critics. I hold a lot of homicide in my heart. If this was another time, I'd be packing a piece.
-
Way Down South in Dixie (Break the heart of me) They hung my black young lover To a cross roads tree.
