Huutaart Quotes & Sayings

I am like a burglar that can't get away, but must go on miserably burgling the same house day after day.
- Bilbo Baggins — J.R.R. Tolkien

The total economy of Latin America is bigger than China. — William Hague

For a long time, the Indonesian government ignored 'The Act of Killing,' hoping it would go away. — Joshua Oppenheimer

Some persons, instead of making a religion for their God, are content to make a god of their religion. — Arthur Helps

Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those. — Gregory David Roberts

You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character actors who come in like a breath of fresh air. — Amy Sedaris

Everything stopped that day, literally. I even stopped growing....Injured and traumatized children--they quite often fail to grow to normal height....Resources are diverted. The growth system shuts down....Accidents, catastrophes--something like seventy-five percent of disaster victims are convinced there were warning signs they brushed off....If you trace it back, you can see the mistake--the point you would have had a different outcome....To see the mistake, the place where you went wrong, and not be able to go back and fix it? Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, p. 615 — Donna Tartt

The meditator develops new depths of insight through direct communication with the reality of the phenomenal world ... He or she is able to see not only the absence of complexity, the absence of duality, but the stoneness of stone and the waterness of water. One sees things precisely as they are, not merely in the physical sense, but with awareness of their spiritual significance. — Chogyam Trungpa

Oh, it's you,' her head lolled back as she stared up at Owen. Blood was draining in the wrong direction again. He stooped down lower and lifted her right arm over his head.
'Wow. You're really hot.' He commented when her forearm rested against the back of his neck. You're one to talk; she thought and giggled to herself. — Emma Jackson

The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education. — Charles Baudelaire

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself. — Leo Burnett

she was certain he didn't know how the deep scars that marred his soul were reflecting on his body, like a silent scream for help. — Noa Xireau

ON THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF D-Day, I was broadcasting from the American cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach at Colleville-sur-Mer in Normandy, one of the bloodiest battlefields in American history. The cemetery is at once haunting and beautiful, with 9,386 white marble headstones in long, even lines across the manicured fields of dark green, each headstone marking the death of a brave young American. The anniversary was a somber and celebratory — Tom Brokaw

It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward. — Nancy Astor

adversity doesn't equal failure. It equals opportunity. — Erik Bertrand Larssen