Simon Hughes famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You don't need a helmet facing Waqar [Younis] so much as a steel toe cap
-- Simon Hughes

#Needs #Steel #Toes
Worry... is rust upon the blade.
-- Simon Hughes

#Worry #Anxiety #Rust
It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man that he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade.
-- Simon Hughes

#Men #Worry #Healthy
The sight of Imran [Khan] tearing fearsomely down the hill and the baying of the crowd made me realise for the first time that adrenalin was sometimes brown
-- Simon Hughes

#Sight #Crowds #Firsts
Dermot Reeve was so self-obsessed that even on the local nudist beach he only admired himself
-- Simon Hughes

#Beach #Self #Nudists
Clinching the [County] Championship is a strange sensation... There's more atmosphere in a doctor's waiting room
-- Simon Hughes

#Doctors #Waiting Rooms #Atmosphere

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things â€“ once commenced â€“ only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending â€“ sweet or sour â€“ and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?
Remember you love writing.Â It wouldnâ€™t be worth it if you didnâ€™t.Â If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back,
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.
Back of the beating hammer By which the steel is wrought, Back of the workshop's clamor The seeker may find the thought.
I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go `round all the time dolled up in kippie clothes-wear everything but a corset...can`t stub my toe in this picture nor anything! Just imagine having to play-act all the time without ever getting hit with anything!
I like working with different directors; it keeps you on your toes.
The past was but the cemetery of our illusions: one simply stubbed one's toes on the gravestones.

Simon Hughes famous quotes

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