Quotes about hugo (16 Quotes)


    Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

    In some ways, he has the same kind of personality that Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black did people perceive him as being that kind of driving personality, ... He's like a bloodhound, because once he finds the scent, he doesn't lick his nose, he just runs hard after it.

    Perhaps its an overstatement to say that Bush and his immediate team would countenance the violent demise of Hugo Chvez (although in April 2002 they sanctioned an attempted coup against the Venezuelan leader which could easily have ended with his death.) For many months now, the Venezuelan president has claimed that the White House has targeted him for assassination. In March, the State Department retorted that Chvezs spate of accusations regarding a CIA plot to assassinate him were wild. However, serious doubts emerged over the weight of the administrations latest display of supposed indifference to Chvezs fate when Felix Rodriguez, a former CIA operative in Central America and influential Bush-backer in South Florida, claimed in a Miami TV interview that regarding Venezuela, the administration has contingency plans. ... could be economic measures and even at some point military measures.


    The truth of the matter is that the Bush Administration is unhappy that the people of Venezuela democratically elected a president who does not pledge full allegiance to American interests, ... Therefore they cannot resist attacking President Hugo Chvez every chance they get and blaming him for every development in the region that they dislike.


    INCUBUS, n. One of a race of highly improper demons who, though probably not wholly extinct, may be said to have seen their best nights. For a complete account of incubi and succubi, including incubae and succubae, see the Liber Demonorum of Protassus (Paris, 1328), which contains much curious information that would be out of place in a dictionary intended as a text-book for the public schools. Victor Hugo relates that in the Channel Islands Satan himself --tempted more than elsewhere by the beauty of the women, doubtless --sometimes plays at incubus, greatly to the inconvenience and alarm of the good dames who wish to be loyal to their marriage vows, generally speaking. A certain lady applied to the parish priest to learn how they might, in the dark, distinguish the hardy intruder from their husbands. The holy man said they must feel his brown for horns but Hugo is ungallant enough to hint a doubt of the efficacy of the test.

    And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

    I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems a bit less far-fetched than before.


    At a performance of Pulcinella, Jean Hugo was sitting next to Picasso in Misia Sert's box. Suddenly, Picasso turned to him and asked 'So, are you still painting by hand' Hugo would be puzzled by it for years.

    Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.





    If anyone in the world had a doubt ... that sectors of the U. S. government have been planning President Hugo Chavez's assassination, those doubts surely have been cleared up through the criminal act by a personality very close to President George W. Bush, who has a lot of influence in the current U. S. administration,



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