Jim Hodges Quotes (40 Quotes)

The voters have spoken loudly. They believe in scholarships for well-deserving students ... they believe in helping technical college students have a chance to go to college in South Carolina.

There is strong support for making Martin Luther King Day a state holiday,

I was very hands-on with the Ports Authority because we had a lot of issues with them, ... Our big issues were funding of the new bridge in Charleston, whether to expand in Charleston. Port issues were front and center during our administration.

I was trying to write an autobiography using prints and patterns that reference emotional, psychological, and personal development in my work, as a person growing up, figuring out who I was. I used fabrics to stand in for occurrences.

Color is for me the purest form of expression, the purest abstract reality.

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

The interest (in South Carolina ports) is from Jasper, the port community and the people of Georgia, ... It's not that important to the people of South Carolina across the board. That's probably why you see (Sanford) less engaged.

I don't feel a real distance from people, so I don't think that there is a lack of links. I do sense, at least where I live, a lot of rudeness.

They are hot - they got off to a great start. We'll try to slow them down, control the tempo of the game and try to keep things close. When you're at home you seem to have a little bit better luck and maybe the ball will bounce our way.

Even today, the state of South Carolina bows its head, bends it knee and begins the search for reconciliation,

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.

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

Color is an intense experience on its own.

I think young people have a wonderful reaction to color because it's not screwed up by too many references.

Going from one shirt to the next indicates states of transition, of change, not being able to have everything at once, states of concealment.

My big concern is keeping people off the highways today, so that we have no further accidents,

Snow and ice have pelted South Carolina for a week now, ... It's clear this unusual run of winter storms is causing unexpected problems.

The truth is that these very low numbers ... demonstrate a remarkable level of compliance with federal regulations exceeding 99.9.

When I signed the letter, I told them as I believe then as I do now that a port belongs in Jasper, and if they did not move forward with some facility in Jasper County, the people of Jasper should be able to do it,

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

Finishing is still one of our concerns, ... We still need to do a better job of finishing, especially around the 18 and inside the box. We've got to be able to tuck things away and score goals. Moravia is a young group like we are but we still need to do a better job of that.

I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

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

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

I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

However, some of my work is very subtle, and one should expect very subtle reactions to it.

I can assure you support of my administration to try to bring that dream into reality,

After looking at all the candidates, he has the best plan for education, ... I am proud to offer my endorsement to Al Gore.

I'm an average person.

I think that some works are more accessible than others.

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

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

The key for us is just to keep people in until the weather warms up some tomorrow.

I think it was a result of better pressure on their backs and their keeper that helped us. Last week, we weren't getting that in our first three games, but today we did a better job of pressuring their defenders and forcing some mistakes. When you do that usually something good is going to come from it.

There is a synchronicity you start thinking about something and all of a sudden it's everywhere. It happened to me with the mirrors.

Rob was fireman all the way. He lived it, he ate it, he breathed it and unfortunately he died it, but he died doing what he loved doing and that was preparing himself to save and give to other people.

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

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.