Hublandish Quotes

#1. * The vermine is a small black-and-white relative of the lemming, found in the cold Hublandish regions. Its skin is rare and highly valued, especially by the vermine itself; the selfish little bastard will do anything rather than let go of it.

Terry Pratchett

#2. This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.

Betty Carter

#3. It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

Abraham Lincoln

#4. In this chaotic universe, surprise not when a disaster does happen, but surprise when it doesn't happen!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. We are here for a finite amount of time ... it's up to each of us to make that time meaningful and special.

Philip Carter

#6. That is what makes the Bush regime different: after the attacks of September 11, it dared to demand the right to torture without shame. That left the administration subject to criminal prosecution - a problem it dealt with by changing the laws.

Naomi Klein

#7. The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#8. honest-to-goodness beauty

Marci Peschke

#9. Hurt me?" he asked. "How would you do that? By taking away everything I love? Everything I honour? You're too late, Hannah. Far too late. Fallon already did that."
Claire's terrible feeling suddenly condensed into a heavy, sickening weight. "He took Jesse," she said. "Fallon took Jesse.

Rachel Caine

#10. I bask in their heatedness as before a woodstove. My own apathy is bone chilling.

Lionel Shriver

#11. Pets inspire many different types of behaviour in their owners, mostly ranging from adoration to ridiculous obsessiveness, in my experience.

Sheherazade Goldsmith

#12. We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

Clementine Paddleford

#13. This Federal Reserve Act establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President (Wilson) signs this bill the invisible government of the Monetary Power will be legalized.

Charles August Lindbergh

#14. [I was] feeling like I'd done something horrible, "I'm a despicable person and I'm perverse," and all these things, to a sense of the power and the necessity, in a sense, of horror films and dealing with dark material.

Wes Craven