Top 38 Quotes About Hobart

#1. A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains

Hobart Brown

#2. Like all children, you would have loved and admired her. You would have named your favorite doll after her....And then you would have poked out the doll's eyes.

Sally Hobart Alexander

#3. On the manufacturing side, surfing was a lot harder than sailing. You had to find guys who could shape, who could glass, and you're looking for good people among all these surfers, you know. Keeping the quality up was always a problem.

Hobart Alter

#4. Blodgett and Hobart are named for and oven and a mixer?" Justin asked. "Huh. And all this time I thought they were named for some unfortunate relatives.

Jenn McKinlay

#5. He would teach himself to dislike what he actually liked, to approve of what he did not totally understand, in the hopes that he would come out the other side with something that resembled inspiration, something that would make him more famous than Chris Burden or even Hobart Waxman.

Kevin Wilson

#6. It was one of those Hobart spring nights, cold as charity, snow coming down hard on the mountain, the harbour a lather, sleet slapping and scratching at windows and tin roofs like a wild drunk who's been locked out.

Richard Flanagan

#7. To be a learner, you've got to be willing to be a fool.

George Leonard

#8. There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.

Alice Tisdale Hobart

#9. I'm still getting used to the idea that people out in the world are reading my books. Every time I get a 'fan letter,' I am thrilled. But when people tell me that they're from the south or western Kentucky, and they say, 'I know exactly what you mean!' That's awesome.

Molly Harper

#10. I was the son of a publican and a master builder. He ran the Empire Hotel in North Hobart. His name was Max, too. Big Max.

Max Walker

#11. In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

Barry Watson

#12. What is memory for if not to fortify and sustain?

Alice Tisdale Hobart

#13. A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Ai Weiwei

#14. People laughed at me for setting up a surf shop.

Hobart Alter

#15. I've never belonged anywhere.

Kevin Brooks

#16. We've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in eliminating disease, the more our services are out of reach of the people.

Alice Tisdale Hobart

#17. I don't know what you two are up to," Hobart said. "But you be careful now, you hear? Don't do anything I wouldn't do."
"Well now, that doesn't restrict us very much, does it?" Mark teased back.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#18. We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.

Alice Tisdale Hobart

#19. I took Al Unser out on a Hobie the day before he became the first auto racer to go 200 mph around a closed-circuit track. We were only going about 18 mph, and you should have seen him hanging on for dear life.

Hobart Alter

#20. Unfortunately in television, for whatever reason, fantasy became thought of as a kids' genre.

George R R Martin

#21. A few months later Miss Mitten was killed by a milk van in Hobart, across the road from a cricket oval. To the twins there was hidden justice in the fact that the milk van had been reversing.

Arundhati Roy

#22. I was born in the small city of Hobart in Tasmania, Australia, in 1948. My parents were family physicians. My grandfather and great grandfather on my mother's side were geologists.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#23. Chopper Read attended a writing school I gave for inmates at Risdon Prison in Hobart many years ago. Even if I hadn't known about his hacked-off ears and his criminal history, I'd have found him powerful and compelling.

Garry Disher

#24. The team we had, the Hobie Vita-Pakt Super Surfer team, you know, the Hilton boys were on there, Conrad Hilton's grandkids, and they were really good. After being around those kids, I could ride a little. Do a 360, some kick-turns, stuff like that.

Hobart Alter

#25. In my own life, I don't have intercourse. That is my choice.

Andrea Dworkin

#26. Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we weed out charlatanism.

Alice Tisdale Hobart

#27. technical trouble?

Sarah T. Hobart

#28. In the surfing days, that was all there was for me. Sailing, starting around '68, it was kind of the same deal. I always got really into whatever it was I was doing.

Hobart Alter

#29. Something to remember ... You only get one chance to grow and live, so make it Beautiful!

Sierra Lawrimore

#30. To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.

Alice Tisdale Hobart

#31. Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#32. Nothing is so binding as pity.

Alice Tisdale Hobart

#33. How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.

Alice Tisdale Hobart

#34. I spent my first 4 years living in the tiny town of Snug, by the sea near Hobart. Curious about animals, I would pick up ants in our backyard and jellyfish on the beach.

Elizabeth Blackburn

#35. I've never missed a flight. And I don't see any reason in cutting it close because airports are pleasurable for me: You can go to the restaurant, get a massage, browse books, sit at a bar, check emails.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#36. In 1969, 'Life' magazine came up to me and said they wanted to do a little story on the Hobie, and I ended up getting a six-page spread. I remember Robert Redford was on the cover, and when that magazine hit the stands, it was a whole new ballgame.

Hobart Alter

#37. Olli punched in with the cymbal-whack of her typewriter by the alley-side window while a happy neon sign six stories down flashing Hobart and Sons' Fine Smokables got its purple light all tangled up in her eyelashes.

Catherynne M Valente

#38. Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

Hobart Brown

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