Stubbe And Associates Quotes & Sayings

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost. — Peter Hoeg

I was coming out of a bar in Manhattan in the rain at night. I felt lonely. Then I thought: there is nothing lonelier than that little guy up there on Mars, never shutting down. And if he's beeping up there, how much lonelier still, that no one can hear it. Still, I like to think the engineers designed him to beep. — Matthew Rohrer

Avada Kedavra!" "Expelliarmus!" The bang was like a cannon blast, and the golden flames that erupted between them, at the dead center of the circle they had been treading, marked the point where the spells collided. Harry saw Voldemort's green jet meet his own spell, saw the Elder Wand fly high, dark against the sunrise, spinning across the enchanted ceiling like the head of Nagini, spinning through the air toward the master it would not kill, who had come to take full possession of it at last. And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils of the scarlet eyes rolling upward. Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snakelike face vacant and unknowing. Voldemort was dead, killed by his own rebounding curse, and Harry stood with two wands in his hand, staring down at his enemy's shell. — J.K. Rowling

Ach, sure being beaten doesn't matter a whole lot in Ireland; we're good at it. But not to have fought at all, now that would have been a tragedy. — A.G. Lyttle

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. — Samuel Butler

Havana is like Beirut, without having gone through the civil war to achieve the destruction. — Theodore Dalrymple

The violence is the violence. I understand that we're sometimes squeamish about it, but I think that strength needs to be called on once in awhile, and sometimes that's the only thing that will work. — Greg Bryk

To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it. — Leo Tolstoy

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that. — Donna Tartt

The deception at the heart of the feminist movement is nowhere more apparent than in the silence with which self-professed feminists and feminist movements ignore the inhumane treatment of women who live under Islamic law. — Caroline Glick

People of color and women are increasingly being shown on-screen. For things to be whitewashed just doesn't make sense. — John Boyega

It is alarming to feel the soul
Leap to the surface and find no sheltering wall. — May Sarton