Top 192 Hughes Quotes & Sayings

No matter what I think about Matt Hughes, and it's not much, he's a dangerous opponent.

I'd love to fight Matt Hughes again.

I wanted to pay homage to someone who was such an important literary figure in my life. I think Langston Hughes would be proud of the picture Black Nativity, yet it's a contemporary story about a family living in Harlem. I named the lead character Langston, put a little bit of poetry in there, and some Langston Hughes quotes, and, of course, his stage play, Black Nativity.

It is tragic that Howard Hughes had to die to prove that he was alive.

I so related to John Hughes movies.

I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.

At City I went back there on the basis of playing for manager Mark Hughes.

First off, I love Woody Allen. His early movies, like 'Hannah and Her Sisters,' are incredible. I also love anything by Billy Wilder, Ron Howard and John Hughes. I really grew up on the Hughes films, which are the ones I go back and watch all the time, just to see how they were put together.

You can talk about Michael Jackson all you want, but John Hughes was the soundtrack to my 1980s life.

I grew up in the '80s and John Hughes was the filmmaker making serious movies for teenagers.

I think Mark Hughes is the type of manager people want to play for.

Hughes: (Talking for Mustang) 'I won't allow you to die under my jurisdiction because it'd be a pain to clean up the mess.' That's what he said. Edward: Fine. Tell him, 'Understood. I'll never die before you, colonel, you @#'$ idiot.' Hughes: Ha ha ha! They say the ruder you are, the luckier you are! In that case, you and Roy are gonna live forever!

I'm excited about working with Mark Hughes and building a good relationship with him.

It's a rarity in this sport that you really get a guy that's not a good person. I think we've found that in Matt Hughes.

The second Hughes fight was a huge reality check. But it didn't hit me right away.

John Hughes loved improvisers.

Matt and Mark (Hughes) used to pound each other on the farm as young boys.

Mark Hughes played until he was nearly 40 at a decent level, and I think I can do the same.

Mark Hughes at his very best: he loves to feel people right behind him.

I wanted to be Langston Hughes.

I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.

Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.

I think when romantic comedies are done well, it's a great genre. 'When Harry Met Sally' is kind of a benchmark for me, but I'm very happy to admit that I love 'Pretty Woman.' I do! It's a great film, and so is 'Sixteen Candles.' I was a big John Hughes fan - still am. I have moments where I have to watch a Hughes film.

Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys Hughes, filled with gaudy colour, slapstick, puns, fantastic creatures, and the occasional unexpected chill. Hughes' world is a magical one - and his language if the most magical thing of all.

I am saddened to hear of the passing of William 'Bill' J. Hughes, former U.S. Representative and Ambassador. Mr. Hughes has fought for South Jersey for decades and it is an honor to have known him and followed in his footsteps. South Jersey and the world are better for having had him.

The influence of John Hughes is fully felt in the melodrama 'Donnie Darko.' This first film written and directed by Richard Kelly is a wobbly cannonball of a movie that tries to go Mr. Hughes one better; it's like a Hughes version of a novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it

I love John Hughes films.

I'm a huge Glenn Hughes fan.

Fulham wanted me when I was 16. They were in the Premier League at the time with Mark Hughes, and I was close to going.

I like John Hughes movies.

You could not have done it better than Hughes.

I'm only doing my job, and if I score against Mark Hughes' team, it's nothing personal.

It's been my dream to fight Matt Hughes for the championship.

From a vocal standpoint, Glenn Hughes is just a god.

Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

Growing up, I supported Manchester United, and my hero was Mark Hughes.

This boy turkied my Thanksgiving, but I won't let him Grinch my Christmas. -Dean Hughes (Midway to Heaven)

An entire empire built on teenage angst, yes? Thank you, John Hughes!

I am only doing my job, and if I score against Mark Hughes' team, it is nothing personal.

I know it didn't always go so well under Mark Hughes but it wasn't as if he didn't give me a chance or anything. He really did.

For years, Warner Bros. was trying to get me to make a movie about Howard Hughes.

Hughes' debut novel, At Dawn, follows a former All-American wrestler, and is there any better metaphor for contemporary American life? We're all wrestling, tussling with the economy, no jobs, doing the best we can. Hughes doesn't flinch from the tough existential questions. He embraces them.

When I was in high school, I remember writing a research paper, and the teacher said I should write about Langston Hughes. I felt as if I was the only black dude who didn't like Langston Hughes. He didn't seem as dark and layered as someone like Flannery O'Connor.

I think saying 'a John Hughes movie' is just shorthand for a lot of people to say 'a coming-of-age story,' because I think, when you're of a certain age, that's what John Hughes means to you.

John Hughes had such a huge impact on filmmaking.

I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures.

I was just after Generation X. I missed the John Hughes movies; I had to watch them on TBS.

No no no no no. RIP Phillip Hughes.

Adding a player like Jack Hughes, a lot of teams in the NHL would dream of that talent.

My life with Howard Hughes was and shall remain a matter on which I will have no comment.

There was a policy at Hughes against drinking at lunch, but the men ignored it.

Me and Hughes, we're two different kinds of people.

I have respected every manager I have played under, but if you can't learn from someone like Mark Hughes, it is going to be hard for you.

Ted Hughes is dead. That's a fact, OK. Then there's something called the poetry of Ted Hughes. The poetry of Ted Hughes is more real, very soon, than the myth that Ted Hughes existed - because that can't be proven.

It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.

After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks.

Chuck Hughes is one of my very good friends.

The Howard Hughes I knew began to change after his plane crash in 1941.