Houbrick Quotes & Sayings

The key to being a great agent is treating everyone like a celebrity and treating a celebrity like everyone else. — Michael Houbrick

You don't win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also make you stupid. You end up tripping over your own two feet. (Hadrian) — Michael J. Sullivan

The majority of people mistakenly feel like they don't need a live musical experience. — Reggie Workman

I know what happened. I used my inTWINition — Michael Houbrick

Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb. It is the Mother of Art, inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher. It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home, kinder of every fire on every hearth, it was the first dream of immortality. It fills the world with melody. Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings of common clay ... — Robert Green Ingersoll

I like flat black. It doesn't try to explain anything, and it's been hip since before I was born, I guess. — Dennis Cooper

The problem with most people," Dad said once, not necessarily implying that I counted as most people, but not discounting the possibility either, "is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live. — Alexandra Fuller

The word "holistic" is meant to distinguish their method from the purely numerical process at less-selective state universities or community colleges, where a committee will automatically admit any applicant with scores or grades above an explicit threshold. It's a cagey word, "holistic," borrowed from New Age yogis, Gestalt therapists, makers of herbal toothpaste, and other mystifiers whose prestige depends on your not being able to figure out exactly what they're doing. A more practical and accurate term for holistic admissions is "completely subjective." Kat — Andrew Ferguson

Sometimes it's good to be the smartest rat in the sewer. — Michael Houbrick

That's your problem, Char. You're friends with all these boys ... — Terra Elan McVoy

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world's poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us? — Anne Lamott

Darkness gives free rein to the mind's worst imaginings — Jocelyn Murray

Having a bunch of friends who are rats can actually be a good thing. That's the one fact that I can take to the bank, literally. — Michael Houbrick

Always listen to your heart and listen to your gut. Neither of them will ever lie to you. — Michael Houbrick

It's only after you get down into the technical weeds - and they are admittedly rather weedy - that it becomes clear that this is much harder than it seems and not something we're going to be able to solve. — Matt Blaze

It is not eye-service that pleases the Lord, but singleness of heart. — Amber Schamel

As a society we should try to never inhibit another person's creativity. In people like myself, it's all we have. — Michael Houbrick