Hodges Quotes & Sayings

Next up is the fat family psychologist who makes his guests cry (he calls this "breaking through the wall of denial"), and invites them to leave if any of them dare question his methods. Hodges thinks the fat family psychologist might have learned those methods from old KGB training videos. — Stephen King

My life has been a storm of change, Some I did not want, but all I have weathered. — Jason E. Hodges

For the writer that has truly suffered, their pen, their words, their art will become as important as breathing. — Jason E. Hodges

I write novellas, short books, whatever. I set out to write a good story not write a dictionary. — Jason E. Hodges

Just do the best with what you have, and you'll soon be doing it better. — Gil Hodges

For the writer, madness should seep slowly out of them from the world they endure each day. — Jason E. Hodges

If religions have one thing in common, it's that they require us to do something to get to God. All except Christianity. So many people, including many Christians, believe that God requires us to make changes before we can approach him. But that's not true. We don't get our lives together in order to get to God. We go to God to get our lives together! So what are we supposed to do? The answer is in God's first cup of promise. He said, "I will bring you out. — Chris Hodges

Sleeplessness and being a writer seem to go together hand in hand. — Jason E. Hodges

Hodges remembers an old saying: even on the darkest day, the sun shines on some dog's ass. — Stephen King

Color is an intense experience on its own. — Jim Hodges

Holly starts to cry. Jerome hugs her clumsily. He's black and she's white, he's seventeen and she's in her forties, but to Hodges Jerome looks like a father comforting his daughter after she came home from school and said no one invited her to the Spring Dance. — Stephen King

Probably one of the most surprising discoveries I've made while studying the Bible is that God does not condone religion. It's a consistent theme throughout scripture. Religion is man's external effort to please God. But God doesn't care about all my efforts to get it right. He wants more, something far greater. — Chris Hodges

The same things that make you unique in this world, make you a target for the archers consumed by fear and jealousy. — Jason E. Hodges

A shovel is the greatest motivational teacher I know. — Jason E. Hodges

The opening of a public debate about male homosexuality in Britain in 1952 was the conflict of the small back room, in another sphere. — Andrew Hodges

Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success. — Leigh Mitchell Hodges

the key to going faster is to learn "to be comfortable being uncomfortable. — Adam Hodges

As a writer, a poet, you're not alone in wanting to be alone. Your work is a friendship that never leaves you. — Jason E. Hodges

if we seek to follow Jesus, we must be passers-by of many things around us: we should keep alert, we should discern where we are, we ought at times to avoid and not touch; we shouldn't condemn, but neither should we be duped or gullible or willing to buy the latest cultural dope on offer; we should just move along, behaving circumspectly and speaking up when necessary - boldly, charitably, humbly - and hope that our dissimilarity from many societal norms will testify to others that there exists a better, more peaceable, more loving way to live. — Addison Hodges Hart

It's not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing. Being able to do action sounds like it should be straightforward, but it really isn't. I always want the action to be witty. I don't want it to be merely routine. — Adrian Hodges

Jackson busied himself with the volunteers as they passed out flyers about the new voter ID laws that would go into effect in 2016 and signed up people to drive voters to the polls. Many of the elderly people they spoke to that morning were angry. — Cheris Hodges

You know the three Ages of Man, don't you?" Hodges asks. Pete shakes his head, grinning. "Youth, middle age, and you look fuckin terrific. — Stephen King

Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is only another way of saying that he is the way she measures her sanity. Trying to imagine her life with him gone is like standing on top of a skyscraper and looking at the sidewalk sixty stories below. — Stephen King

You do see a few people and you are thinking of how that chemistry is going to work, but it's not really fair to put people who are auditioning together in a room. You have to make that judgement yourself, and that's partly where the casting director is so good. It was that blend that we were looking for. — Adrian Hodges

Hodges has read there are wells in Iceland so deep you can drop a stone down them and never hear the splash. He thinks some human souls are like that. — Stephen King

There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make. — Jim Hodges

Too aware, even as he says this very proper thank-you, that most people become customers sooner or later, here or at one of the city's four other fine and not-so-fine sickbays. No one rides for free, and in the end, even the most seaworthy ship goes down, blub-blub-blub. The only way to balance that off, in Hodges's opinion, is to make the most of every day afloat. But if that's true, what — Stephen King

fingers clenched around the pommel of her sword. The blade trembled in her hand. Pressure swelled in her chest, her frustration bubbling within. Then she took a deep breath, — Aaron D. Hodges

End of watch is what they call it, but Hodges himself has found it impossible to give up watching. — Stephen King

The Fairy Queen has sent you to do brave deeds in this world. That High City that you see is in another world. Before you climb the path to it and hang your shield on its wall, go down into the valley and fight the dragon that you were sent to fight. — Margaret Hodges

Richelieu was a great statesman, and like all great statesman, he was a very ruthless man. He's not cruel. He just does what he has to do. And in his own mind, he's absolutely right. — Adrian Hodges

For some folks the world is filled to the top with hurt. — Jason E. Hodges

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to? — Jim Hodges

It doesn't translate perfectly, but the gist is this; fear is the heart alone. — T. Ellery Hodges

Everyone seems to agree that it is Minnesotans' responsibility to assimilate to Somali culture, not the other way around.11 The Catholic University of St. Thomas has installed Islamic prayer rooms and footbaths in order to demonstrate, according to Dean of Students Karen Lange, that the school is "diverse." Minneapolis's mayor, Betsy Hodges, has shown up wearing a full hijab to meetings with Somalis. (In fairness, it was "Forbid Your Daughter to Work Outside the Home" Day.) — Ann Coulter

Some things get worse when you share them," Jonathan said. "Dad was wise enough not to forget that." Evelyn looked at him and waited, seeming to hope that if he had said this much, he might say more. "Mother," he said, "there is not enough guilt in the world to make me forget it, either. — T. Ellery Hodges

I'm an average person. — Jim Hodges

To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature. — George Hodges

If you had a son, it would be a great thing to have him grow up to be just like Gil Hodges. — Pee Wee Reese

He also liked to root around in sales and street markets, and picked up a violin in London, on Farringdon Road, for which he took some lessons. — Andrew Hodges

Lies are served like a fine delicacy. But beware, the truth of it all will sour, lodge in your throat, and choke your very existence if you continue to believe them. — Jason E. Hodges

You know you're on the right road, when the right and necessary people cross your path — Jeff Hodges

Because of our selfishness and inclination toward personal comfort and convenience, we'd rather not have to deal with constant change and uncertainty. We have difficulty reconciling the goodness of God with the mystery of his ways. — Chris Hodges

Gehrig had one advantage over me. He was a better ballplayer. — Gil Hodges

Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm, or one of those dull days with no weather at all, life begins each morning! — Leigh Mitchell Hodges

Sometimes it seems safer to have just enough God to get to heaven, but not so much that he radically alters our lives. — Chris Hodges

Humans have the ability to rewrite history. Within a few decades it is not even questioned. Stories of the past become as real as the world you walk through today. Wars are waged over false history. Sins are denied. All for mankind to move forward and feel comfortable about its past. Your true history is written in the stars. Look up, breathe in, and be humbled by the ones who came before you. The ones who have suffered, who have endured, who have overcome. Their blood is alive in you. Their spirits roam freely in the heavens above. — Jason E. Hodges

The problem with baggage is that it affects other people's trips. — Chris Hodges

Boards." He paused. "I saved the worst for last. We can declassify Princess back to plain old Eva Hodges, female, age four, — Stephen King

But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion. — Jim Hodges

Poets, with no sponsors, no agenda, are the truest form of freedom today, bleeding out every drop of themselves for the world to either hate or devour. — Jason E. Hodges

Never be an artist that starts worshiping yourself or believe your little group is better than anyone outside of it. For, you are nothing more than a grain of sand on a hillside in this world of ours. Even Da Vinci's work is only glanced at then scrolled past on a phone or computer these days. Climb down off your throne and become humble once more. — Jason E. Hodges

One of the problems of this genre is that there are cliches everywhere, and you've got to be careful and watch out. Our rule with cliches is to either gently acknowledge them and make fun of them, or do something else. Milady is, in one sense, a villain because she does bad things. — Adrian Hodges

It's as if I were collaborating with myself, revealing my relationship to the material. My hand would make the drawing. Then my mouth would transmit it. — Jim Hodges

Sweat, blood, and tears mean nothing in your writing if you're not willing to burn what doesn't work. — Jason E. Hodges

I was a poet. I had no expectations other than creating a world of art with words that would live on long after I was gone. — Jason E. Hodges

More coffee? Hodges declines with a smile. Hot can only do so much for bad coffee. — Stephen King

The first step toward happiness is to determine to be happy. — George Hodges

A poet's words are like mortar to the bricks of society. — Jason E. Hodges

Express to our world what is alive inside us not what their world says we should be ... Our true selves should never be created by others, Held in their pockets like belongings, like trinkets. We are skaters. We are artists. We are free. — Jason E. Hodges

It would probably never have occurred to him that his own difficulties with the world were akin to those suffered by women-- as with the men's committee meetings held over his head, almost as if he were not there, and the way people took little notice of what he had said or written, but remained obsessed by details of manners or appearance. Women had to learn to compensate for these indignities by making a special effort, but Alan Turing made no such attempt. He expected the male world to work for him, and was baffled when it did not. — Andrew Hodges

You're worth three of these other retards that I have working for me," Mr. Fletcher said. For a moment, he'd been flattered; then he realized he'd just been given the value of three retards. — T. Ellery Hodges

Alan Turing, however, cared nothing for the opinion of society, and therefore was ahead of his time in laying bare the role of the state. — Andrew Hodges

I'm not afraid to die, but I'm also, not afraid to live. — Jason E. Hodges

As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me. — Jim Hodges

Some live it, some wish they lived it, and some never know it's there. — Jason E. Hodges

On 25 May 2011, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, speaking to the parliament of the United Kingdom, singled out Newton, Darwin and Alan Turing as British contributors to science. Celebrity is an imperfect measure of significance, and politicians do not confer scientific status, but Obama's choice signalled that public recognition of Alan Turing had attained a level very much higher than in 1983, when this book first appeared. — Andrew Hodges

Here's the real secret: you can fulfill the commands of the Bible better by falling in love with God than by trying to obey him. It's not that your obedience isn't significant or relevant; it's simply not the center of the wheel. No, the hub of your life is your relationship with God. Your behavior and obedience radiate like spokes from the center of your life and allow you to roll forward. When you try to make your eternal behavior the hub on which you turn, you get stuck. Forward motion must be fueled by love. — Chris Hodges

You can use the fun of the genre, but I also really wanted to come at it from the point of view of some really complex characterization. There was a lot that I wanted it to do, and I wanted it to be fun. It's fun, but it's not simple fun. — Adrian Hodges

The second rector of [St. John's in] Providence was blown out of church one Sunday by 'an extraordinary gust of wind,' and the people, welcoming this ejection as an act of heaven, refused to let him in again. — George Hodges

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological. — Jim Hodges

We didn't have AC or Cable TV. We had shade trees and storytellers. This is where my writing comes from. — Jason E. Hodges

uncomputable numbers — Andrew Hodges

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:6-7). — Chris Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs. — Jim Hodges

The split second we cease to breathe here on planet earth, we begin to breathe celestial air, and we have no reason to grieve. — Samuel J. Hodges IV

No one had more impact on my career than Gil Hodges. Playing for him was a
learning experience, and he was a tower of strength. Not everbody liked him, but
everybody respected him. He went about his job in a very professional manner,
and it caused me to do the same with my job. — Tom Seaver

The separation between any two events in the history of a particle shall be a maximum or minimum when measured along its world line. — Andrew Hodges

History is the roadmap to a better tomorrow. Destroying it is getting rid of any chance of what not to do for future generations. — Jason E. Hodges

Sometimes people just can't take how real the world can be. Even if they're your friend they'll drop away from you like petals from a dying flower to keep their own sanity. — Jason E. Hodges

Success and wealth would be pretty useless if I didn't have my family. — Christopher W. Hodges

I can't very well tell my batters don't hit it to him. Wherever they hit it, he's there anyway. — Gil Hodges

When Hodges returns to his chair with his small bundle of mail, the fight-show host is saying goodbye and promising his TV Land audience that tomorrow there will be midgets. Whether of the physical or mental variety he does not specify. — Stephen King

Of course you will, Hodges thinks. You might think you know what you're risking, but you don't. When you're seventeen, the future is strictly theoretical. — Stephen King

His machines - soon to be called Turing machines - offered a bridge, a connection between abstract symbols and the physical world. — Andrew Hodges

People who think following your dreams is a fairytale don't realize they're living the biggest fairytale of all, following the sheep — Jason E. Hodges

Literature is a love that won't let you down or show its true colors after some time goes by. You know what it's about from the moment you read it. In a lot of ways it's a perfect love. — Jason E. Hodges

We will never reach the world for Christ in our generation if we simply follow in the groove worn for us by our predecessors. — Melvin L. Hodges

Hodges could remember buying his first new car and letting the guy's post-sales tutorial wash over him - uh-huh, yep, right, gotcha - just anxious to get his new purchase out on the road, to dig the rattle-free ride and inhale that incomparable new-car smell, which to the buyer is the aroma of money well spent. — Stephen King

You know you're getting somewhere as a writer when the rejection letters mean as much as spam in your inbox. — Jason E. Hodges

Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing. — Jim Hodges

Sometimes the rules of writing get in the way of a good story told. — Jason E. Hodges

If you're not going to immerse yourself in your work as a writer then don't write. But beware, if you're a writer who does not write, you stand a good chance of drowning in the world that surrounds you. — Jason E. Hodges

There is plenty of other evidence, however, that the nominal conversion of the Roman Empire to the Christian religion had effected no visible improvement in the common morals. The world was worse rather than better. Out of its besetting temptations men fled to save their souls. They fled from the world, which in the first century was believed by the Christians to be doomed, and liable to be destroyed by divine fire before the end of the year, and which in the fourth century was believed by the Christians to be damned: it belonged to the devil. They fled also from the church, which they accused of secularity and of hypocrisy. Many of the monks were laymen, who in deep disgust had forsaken the services and sacraments. They said their own prayers and sought God in their own way, asking no aid from priests. They were men who had resolved never to go to church again. — George Hodges

Each morning is the open door to a new world - new vistas, new aims, new tryings. — Leigh Mitchell Hodges

You can be the greatest at stringing words together but if you don't mean what you say your words will not live long in this world. — Jason E. Hodges

Not a giggle, Hodges thought, but a titter. Given that her husband was dead, he supposed you could even call it a widder-titter. — Stephen King

Each morning the winds of the city moan and weep with lost souls clinging to hope of reliving the memories of yesterday. — Jason E. Hodges

Even the wolf gets anxious, but the wolf keeps moving and doing, all while being washed in the magic of moonlight — Jason E. Hodges

Pete roars with laughter and asks if Hodges knows what the blond said when she opened the box of Cheerios. Hodges says he does not. Pete makes big amazed eyes and says, Oh! Look at the cute little doughnut seeds! — Stephen King