Hubbell Quotes

#1. And Conan O'Brien tried to be David Letterman but ended up Conan O'Brien. In O'Brien's words, It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

Austin Kleon

#2. If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

Carl Hubbell

#3. read your Bible, go to church, say your prayers, and ask God to take care of you; then you need never fear dreams or anything else, for you must always remember that God has more power than the devil, and always will have.

Walter Hubbell

#4. The artist's role is to do what is honest for them. So if you're in New York and everyone is looking at the floor, you can look up. It's not your role to follow the others. It's your role to go to your centre and then reflect that, not just to be a mirror to what's happening.

James T. Hubbell

#5. It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

Carl Hubbell

#6. In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#7. Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replaced normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.

Albert Camus

#8. Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals.

Sue Hubbell

#9. No guts, no glory. If you are going to shoot him down, you have to get in there and mix it up with him.

Frederick C. Blesse

#10. Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key ...

Rumi

#11. He would lose every game. And he still insisted on playing. I wondered at the futility of it. If it is the definition of insanity to repeat the same process and expect a different outcome, most of humanity must be insane.

Amie Kaufman

#12. I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care.

Elizabeth George

#13. It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.

Carl Hubbell

#15. They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

Carl Hubbell

#16. Got me as fussed as a fart in a mitten.

Sue Hubbell

#17. Lepidopterists give the noun a gerund's push toward the verb, and say that butterflies are nectaring ...

Sue Hubbell

#18. A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

Carl Hubbell

#19. I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.

Sue Hubbell

#20. I had no chance of controlling a ball game until I first controlled myself.

Carl Hubbell

#21. Really, lies are so easy to tell when you don't care anymore, or when you have lost all shame. That is my truth.

Mia Asher

#22. The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.

James T. Hubbell

#23. Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

George Bernard Shaw

#24. I have stopped sleeping inside. A house is too small, too confining. I want the whole world, and the stars too.

Sue Hubbell

#25. Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.

Carl Hubbell

#26. The only time I ever believed that I knew all there was to know about beekeeping was the first year I was keeping them. Every year since I've known less and less and have accepted the humbling truth that bees know more about making honey than I do.

Sue Hubbell

#27. We in Russia have always considered Russians and Ukrainians to be one people. I still think so.

Vladimir Putin

#28. When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.

Pablo Picasso

#29. Reality is not going to change with your perception of it.

Steve Hagen

#30. [N]o such thing as objective writing, ... every inscription, every traveler's tale, every news account, every piece of technical writing, tells more about the author and his time than it does about the ostensible subject.

Sue Hubbell

#31. The screwball's an unnatural pitch. Nature never intended a man to turn his hand like that throwing rocks at a bear.

Carl Hubbell

#32. My will, my faith and my body have been challenged, but make no mistake, my heart is strong and my resolve to fight will never be broken.

Anastacia

#33. I am a Libra so I have to balance things.

Mark Viduka

#34. Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

Carl Hubbell