Quotes About Stubbs

#1. He was not at the moment in very good odour at Bow Street. Such epithets as Blockhead and Blunderer had been used in connection with his last case. 'Jeremiah Stubbs, miss,' said the Runner. 'I am here in the execution of my dooty.

Georgette Heyer

#2. Them Frenchies!'
'Unchristian, that's what I call 'em,' responded Mr. Stubbs severely. 'I fair compassionate that wench.

Georgette Heyer

#3. Stubbs may have envisaged the skeleton inside the horse, but most of us do not

Richard Adams

#4. At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.

Woody Allen

#5. There is no light. I don't feel like starting my generator. I used to get a big kick out saving people's lives. Now I wonder what the hell's the point, since they all have to die anyway.Dr. Stubbs Catch -22

Joseph Heller

#6. Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

Donald Fagen

#7. But it is infamous that they have not told you!' declared Eustacie. 'Je n'en reviendrai jamais!'
'If it's all the same to you, miss, I'd just as soon you'd talk in a Christian language,' said Mr. Stubbs.

Georgette Heyer

#8. Mrs. Stubbs, and she pointed dramatically to the life-size head and shoulders of a burly man with a dead white rose in the buttonhole of his coat that made you think of a curl of cold mutting fat. Just below, in silver

Katherine Mansfield

#9. Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

H.L. Mencken

#10. Football, wherein is nothing but beastly fury and extreme violence, whereoth proceedeth hurt, and consequently rancour and malice do remain with them that be wounded.

Philip Stubbs

#11. In trying to be perfect,
He perfected the art of anonymity,
Became imperceptible
And arrived nowhere from nowhere.

Dejan Stojanovic

#12. A good wife would have sorted him out and put him on the right road..." There comes that right road again. I wonder where it is? Imogen thought

Jean Stubbs

#13. Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.

Donna Leon

#14. Sometimes, Hoss," he said very gently, "you lose. Sometimes the darkness takes everyone. Sometimes the monster escapes to kill again another day." He shook his head and looked down. "Sometimes, Hoss, the innocent little ones are murdered. And there's not one goddamned thing you can do about it.

Jim Butcher

#15. The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.

Zygmunt Bauman

#16. Scoring three away from home - you can't do better than that.

Ray Stubbs

#17. If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them.

Larry Wall

#18. As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation - a bloody and murdering practise than a fellowly sport or pastime.

Philip Stubbs

#19. Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday

Sathya Sai Baba

#20. I'm yours. All that I am, if you want it. I'm not much, but I know I can be so much more with you.

K.I. Lynn

#21. Move on. Be well. Go for it!

Sally Stubbs

#22. The midwife considers the miracle of childbirth as normal, and leaves it alone unless there's trouble. The obstetrician normally sees childbirth as trouble; if he leaves it alone, it's a miracle.

Sheila Stubbs

#23. I did films with Wanda Ventham, Benedict's mother, and we lived in the same area, in Kensington. So I'd be out with my pram and Wanda and I would be talking and there was poor little Benedict, who I suppose was about four, standing there while we were gossiping in the high street for hours!

Una Stubbs

#24. Art is challenging and frustrating but I don't linger in it. I work on five paintings at a time so if I'm frustrated I put one down and begin another.

Robert Bateman

#25. Marriage provides the solace of worked-on friendship and the joy of being known profoundly.

Imogen Stubbs

#26. He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need to make a claim on the world and the people you love to get what you most desire

Cinda Williams Chima

#27. To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

Charles Stubbs

#28. I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am
though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.

John Heath-Stubbs

#29. Breath with awareness is prana. Breath without awareness is just air.

Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

#30. I don't want anyone else - just you. And no matter where I am, wherever I go, you're the only one who is holding my heart." ~Ryan

Tina Reber

#31. I never saw so sweet a face. As that I stood before. My heart has left it dwelling place ... and can return no more.

John Clare

#32. Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society.

Fay Weldon

#33. If you were in the Brondby dressing room right now, which of the Liverpool players would you be looking at?

Ray Stubbs

#34. Being more aware will enable you to have only astonishing impressions, avoiding any of the disappointing experiences like some of those we went through.

Sahara Sanders