Middlebrook Quotes

#1. What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

Ian McEwan

#2. God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Jean Rostand

#3. The risks of piracy spreading beyond the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, off the Somali coast, and in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore and beyond are substantial.

Peter Middlebrook

#4. I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer, universal health care plan

Barack Obama

#5. How quickly people can forget you, until they want something from u and when they are done with you, you are not even a stranger but an invisible person who doesn't even exist.

Honeya

#6. We were two years in the making and ten minutes in the destroying.

Martin Middlebrook

#7. But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist.

Diane Wood Middlebrook

#8. In the long run, with profits from piracy greater than international finance mobilised to solve the problem, we can expect piracy to increase geographically and in sophistication.

Peter Middlebrook

#9. Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and I said, 'No. Not past tense.

John Green

#10. The eye-roll is a 10.5 on the Ritcher. The Big One. California has slipped into the ocean.

Jandy Nelson

#11. If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.

Diane Wood Middlebrook

#12. I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living.

Thom Yorke

#13. Tender expressions of love and affection toward children are as much the responsibility of the father as the mother. Tell your children you love them.

Howard W. Hunter