Hatbox Quotes

#1. Speeches are for politicians. We are Milliners, Wonderlanders of action.

Frank Beddor

#2. WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE.
WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS TO US THAN WHAT HAPPENS TO US.
HAPPINESS DOES NOT DEPEND ON WHAT HAPPENS OUTSIDE OF YOU BUT ON WHAT HAPPENS INSIDE OF YOU.

Marvin J. Ashton

#3. That's your problem, isn't it, Madigan? Too much feeling.

Frank Beddor

#4. I know what a human brain preserved in formaldehyde looks like," I said, "We've got to get out of here. Go to the party, act as though nothing's happened. He can't suspect that we know."

"How can I act like papa doesn't have a brain in a hatbox?

Megan Shepherd

#5. The students at Gallaudet University deserve our congratulations. They educated the nation about deafness, and won a long overdue victory for all disabled people.

Michael Dukakis

#6. I don't know what's more exhausting about parenting: the getting up early, or acting like you know what you're doing.

Jim Gaffigan

#7. Being a Milliner's about standing up for what's right, for those who can't stand up for themselves.

Frank Beddor

#8. Ooh, the staring at threads class. My favorite.

Frank Beddor

#9. For what it's worth, charting one's passion in a small daybook kept hidden in a hatbox inside a wardrobe does not subdue passion in the least.

Sue Monk Kidd

#10. I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

Jerry Garcia

#11. When I write, I hold nothing back. I write like he'll never read it. Because he never will. Every secret thought, every careful observation, everything I've saved up inside me, I put it all in the letter. When I'm done, I seal it, I address it, and then I put it in my teal hatbox.

Jenny Han

#12. America ... loves the successful sociopath and thinks it's normal to dream of becoming like him.

Gary Indiana

#13. One hat, one hatter. - Millinery Code

Frank Beddor

#14. If a rumor comes out that I'm gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying.

James Van Der Beek

#15. If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default.

Stephen R. Covey

#16. Being with someone else and making that person feel as if they were no importance in our life is far worse than feeling alone and miserable.

Paulo Coelho

#17. We must embrace the power of faith, but we must never confuse politics and piety. For me, may I say that it is against my religion to impose my religion.

John Ashcroft

#18. For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.

Jean De La Bruyere

#19. Is your father's hat useful?

Frank Beddor

#20. She's always telling us that the worst part of the spy life isn't the danger - it's the paperwork. After all, when you're on a plane home from Istanbul with a nuclear warhead in a hatbox, the last thing you want to do is write a report about it. So

Ally Carter

#21. The Pepper Sisters," Falk told him, "I think you just got an eyeful of the new ad campaign for their dairy."

"Were those the owners or the producers?" Jason asked.

"Both. It's an employee-owned co-op. Chemical-free too now that Pickle's quit smoking.

Ginn Hale

#22. This room was worse than she thought.
Dark. Remote. Practically in the trees. Practically Enchanted.
A calculus test would feel intimate in here.

Rainbow Rowell

#23. Be the best. There is no second place.

Frank Beddor