Top 82 Hobbs Quotes
#1. Hobbs and Sutcliffe. More than any other players in those years they raised the status of the professional cricketer.
Stephen Chalke
#2. Stepping to me? Yo, that's the wrong move.
So what you on, hobbs, dope or dog food?
Big Daddy Kane
#3. When the clock struck twelve, you dropped whatever you were doing and you went and ate your lunch. You had to have your priorities straight, and Alvin Hobbs figured his priorities were as straight as an arrow. Hunting
Scott Langrel
#4. Watch this. 'Buenos Dios, Miguel.'"
A small, dark-eyed man looked up from his wood splitting, alarmed.
"They spook easy," Hobbs said.
Yes, well, people tend to do that when you come up behind them shouting, "Good God." It's just a habit, I guess.
David Sedaris
#5. if you do not know, reader, what a Fisher Hobbs is, you know nothing about pigs, and deserve no bacon for breakfast.
Charles Kingsley
#6. A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.
Neville Cardus
#7. Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class.
G.H. Hardy
#8. 'Ghost Canoe' takes place on the storm-tossed tip of Washington's Olympic Peninsula, where I spent a lot of time hiking and exploring.
Will Hobbs
#9. I don't need to see you to know how breathtakingly beautiful you are, Sophie." he breathes into my ear "The sun, the stars, this place, it all pales in comparison to you.
K.A. Hobbs
#10. I think we made huge positive changes and Thunder Bay is in a better place than it was four years ago.
Keith Hobbs
#11. Our collective information regarding his death was still limited, which brought forward the sadder fact that, at the end of it all, none of us had actually known Rob as well as we thought we did, as well as we should have, as well as - with just a little more effort - we could have.
Jeff Hobbs
#12. 'Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that.
Will Hobbs
#13. If you want to, and you don't, then that's on you.
Jeff Hobbs
#14. Look, anything you do, if it isn't hard, it isn't doing anything for you. So you're better off not doing it. Use your time somewhere else.
Jeff Hobbs
#15. There isn't a mayor in the world or a president in the world that can stop homicides.
Keith Hobbs
#16. Dreams aren't practical, but we can't live without them.
Will Hobbs
#17. The Internet is like a gold-rush; the only people making money are those who sell the pans.
Will Hobbs
#18. How you react to reality is more important than the reality to which you react.
W.R. Hobbs
#19. Everything will change when we get back home, Sophie. I don't want to lose this, lose what we've found while we have been away. I need to know, whatever happens when we get back, we will be okay.
K.A. Hobbs
#20. The word "fronting" was important to Rob. A coward who acted tough was fronting. A nerd who acted dumb was fronting. A rich kid who acted poor was fronting. Rob found the instinct very offensive, and in college he saw it all around.
Jeff Hobbs
#21. I love to read about the exploits of technical mountain climbers, but I've never done any vertical climbing.
Will Hobbs
#22. Love must be shared, or else it is just madness.
Peter Hobbs
#23. orders at home. Over the following
Jeff Hobbs
#24. I've been under the spell of the North ever since my childhood in Alaska. More and more, I've been returning to Alaska, and sometimes my adventures inspire a story.
Will Hobbs
#25. Strawberries and Sophie. Ummmmmm, better than strawberries and cream.
K.A. Hobbs
#26. In East Orange, initiations were completed by murdering someone, for no other reason than to prove to a tremendously cold, tremendously tight brotherhood that you possessed the hardness required to watch their backs.
Jeff Hobbs
#27. But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.
Jeff Hobbs
#28. Rob's small room on the second floor of the Chapman Street house, a three-shelf bookcase was packed with black-and-white composition books, the front and back of each page filled with single-spaced notes from various classes. Tavarus thought, Damn, this is how you go places.
Jeff Hobbs
#30. We are such sticklers for tradition in insisting on an amateur captain, regardless of the question of whether he can pull his weight as a player. The time is coming when we will have to change our views [...] when there will be no amateurs of sufficient ability to put into an England side.
John Berry Hobbs
#31. So much of writing is discovery. Sometimes I feel like a rat in a maze, trying to discover the way out. My little heart is beating, and I'm racing down a path thinking, this is the route, it will get me there, as I turn this way and then that.
Will Hobbs
#33. Oswaldo was flummoxed by the fact that his friend could be so quiet, almost embarrassed, about his academic acumen, yet so damn loud and proud of his status as a premier campus drug dealer.
"I've never met anyone so smart but so fucking dumb," he told Rob.
Jeff Hobbs
#34. He had a natural curiosity about the stories of those around him paired with a brain that was quick to draw insights from within each of these stories.
Jeff Hobbs
#35. Seven of my novels take place in the Southwest, in the Four Corners area which has been my home since 1973. I know these mountains, rivers, mesas and canyons well, so it's been natural for me to draw on my own personal experiences here.
Will Hobbs
#36. Like everything else, the beans had exploded with growth in the last few days. "Holy jumping garbanzos!" my father declared. My mother answered with, "Great leapin' limas!
Will Hobbs
#37. Life is too short to suffer anybody's meanness, which is what you can learn eating shrimp with store-bought coleslaw, if you look it straight in the face.
Valerie Hobbs
#38. Anyone who has examined into the history of the theories of earth evolution must have been astounded to observe the manner in which the unique and the difficultly explainable has been made to take the place of the common and the natural in deriving the framework of these theories.
William Herbert Hobbs
#39. An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.
Will Hobbs
#40. and it's like nothing matters, not even time, and for a couple hours I can just be.
Jeff Hobbs
#41. Choosing the narrator for a first-person story like 'Downriver' is a crucial decision because the voice has to be one the reader wants to listen to, and the voice has to be a match for the emotion you want the story to carry.
Will Hobbs
#42. In a lot of cases, writers discover that the novel needs to begin later in the action than they'd first thought.
Will Hobbs
#43. Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come.
Will Hobbs
#44. I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!
Will Hobbs
#45. Therefore, as you seek to know God, there isn't a need to dabble in lots of different religions or make up one that makes Him more "modern and current." Basically, God's Word needs no revision. And the commandments aren't like the constitution: amending them to fit with the times isn't necessary.
Chantel Hobbs
#46. For 'The Big Wander,' I probably had ten different outlines before I made myself start writing. I would sleep on each one, thinking it was wonderful, but I would always awake perceiving some flaw.
Will Hobbs
#47. Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.
Will Hobbs
#48. On that night he made clear to his secret society that the fundamental conflict of his life was founded on precisely that belief: the white establishment would always keep the common black man down in order to cover their own asses.
Jeff Hobbs
#49. If somebody's going to tell me I can't do something, I'll break every bone in my body proving them wrong.
Will Hobbs
#50. A poetry professor had once defined romance to me as "bringing two people together when every force in the universe is working to keep them apart.
Jeff Hobbs
#51. I love weird science. I learned in an article in 'National Geographic' that there are trillions of bacteria in our guts that help us digest food. These are non-human creatures.
Will Hobbs
#52. The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be.
Chelsea Hobbs
#53. that Rob, who had turned seven two months
Jeff Hobbs
#54. He wanted to instill that sociability in his son; he believed that being curious about people was one of the few crucial life skills that could be fully nurtured in a place like East Orange.
Jeff Hobbs
#55. Like a bird handled by humans whose flock would not accept it back, Rob now wore the unwashable scent of the Ivy League.
Jeff Hobbs
#56. One wide-awake persistent enemy may be worth twenty friends. Friends point out all the good things you do. You know all about that. Your enemies point out your mistakes. Get yourself a first-class enemy, cultivate him, and when you achieve success thank him.
Harold Hobbs
#57. I often read nonfiction, and some of my ideas begin there.
Will Hobbs
#58. What had happened wasn't supposed to have happened and yet, they still rendered the predictable media spin of potential squandered, the gift of education sacrificed to the allure of thug life, etc. Not only simplistic, but also offensively so.
Jeff Hobbs
#59. Success is waking up in the morning and bounding out of bed because there's something out there that you love to do, that you believe in, that you're good at - something that's bigger than you are, and you can hardly wait to get at it again.
Whit Hobbs
#60. [Flowy]'d undertaken this mainly because he'd known that going to public school, with girls, would sentence him to fatherhood by age sixteen, and he wanted to evade that pattern, one from which he himself had been born.
Jeff Hobbs
#61. Time softens all griefs, they say, and it is useless to dwell on lives that might have been. We are granted only one life, and one is enough. Whom do such regrets profit? What do they achieve, except to bring us unhappiness?
Peter Hobbs
#62. to live on Pierson Street, just two blocks north of
Jeff Hobbs
#63. I've been reading about Crazy Horse and Custer for a long, long time, and I thought that if I was going to write a story that took place in the Black Hills, I should find a way to include this history in it.
Will Hobbs
#64. On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.
Ellis Hobbs
#65. men and women who'd constantly filed through our common room, wearing hoodies and piercings - uniform in their aversion to uniformity - to
Jeff Hobbs
#66. Last year they came in and won the game; that's how I would define it. Revenge is never on our mind. What's on our mind is playing defense, rebounding, taking care of the ball, and running our transition game.
Karl Hobbs
#67. Dusty rarely barks, but did she ever send up a clamor now, barking like there was no tomorrow.
Will Hobbs
#68. My first job out of college was six weeks of picking fruit alongside a dozen or so men from Mexico. The orchard was in Emmett, Idaho. The men spent almost nothing on themselves. Their paychecks went directly to their families back home.
Will Hobbs
#69. It's like you can't have a real conversation with anyone.
Jeff Hobbs
#70. One day I get to that spot where I've discovered the secret to the maze, and then I've got free running the rest of the way. It's a great feeling.
Will Hobbs
#71. I stay in contact with kids, and that is a lot of fun for me, not only to get their letters but to meet them in schools and see that the books really have engaged their hearts and imaginations. That's what makes it so worthwhile.
Will Hobbs
#72. It's all fun and games until somebody dies. -Brian Sheahan "Trauma Junkie
Tom Hobbs
#73. Pacing has become more important than ever, largely because of other media. I've always tried to start my stories out with a bang, something that will hook their attention.
Will Hobbs
#74. Researching and writing about the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 was one of the most exciting and involving projects I've undertaken.
Will Hobbs
#75. Once you're imagining being the main character, and you're having the conversations and actually being there, the magic in fiction writing takes over.
Will Hobbs
#76. I was astounded to learn that Alaskan caves might be hiding secrets about the earliest people ever to enter the Americas. That's when I began to picture a story that would start with kayaking and lead into the caves.
Will Hobbs
#77. At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words.
Chelsea Hobbs
#78. At Yale, most everyone (except Oswaldo Gutierrez) refrained from telling Rob what to do, because of the way he'd grown up in Newark. In Newark, most everyone (except Oswaldo Gutierrez) refrained from telling Rob what to do, because of the way he'd gone to Yale.
Jeff Hobbs
#80. My seventeen years of teaching inform my sense of audience in every line I write.
Will Hobbs
#81. My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia years ago. Believe it or not, we took only granola, thinking we'd be eating a lot of lake trout. Well, we neglected to bring along a net, and our fishing line was only 8-lb. test.
Will Hobbs
#82. He talked about what he believed defined a Real Man: someone who had honor, curiosity, respect for women, and took responsibility for his people.
Jeff Hobbs
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