Kin Hubbard Quotes

Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty, while bein' above suspicion is about th' only compensation fer bein' homely.

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• I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Most
  • British
  • Novelists

• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • True
  • Wish

• I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Doing
  • Champion

• When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Game
  • Water
  • Boy

• I think there are some people who are just kind of born to create drama and then capitalise on it.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • People
  • Think
  • Kind

• The Self is self-luminous without darkness and light, and is the reality which is self-manifest. Therefore, one should not think of it as this or as that. The very thought of thinking will end in bondage.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Thinking
  • Reality
  • Light

• Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Women
  • Bad
  • Fear

• The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • World
  • City

• Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Money
  • You
  • Like

• I'm just going to have to grow old, because I'm too terrified to have anything done.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Done
  • Old
  • Grow

• I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Romantic
  • Theory
  • Bit

• However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Relationship
  • Need
  • Dating

• I'm really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl - wish I could relive it all over again.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Wish

• I was very fortunate to have some great mentors. A father that was always in my life set the example every day at home. Everybody asks me, 'What was your role model?' My role model slept 20 feet from me every night. I could always go talk to him and ask him questions no matter what it was about.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Great
  • Home

• I auditioned on my own. I tried to make a mark for myself without anybody's help, not even Mom's.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Help
  • Mom
  • Myself

• The whole student loan thing drives me completely nuts. If it wasn't possible for 18-year-olds to sign themselves up for tens of thousands of dollars in debt in order to pay their college bills, the state governments wouldn't have found it so politically easy to cut taxpayer support for public colleges and universities.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Up
  • Support
  • College

• Yes, I don’t know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment later, an undeniable relief.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Time
  • Why
  • Feeling

• She did love him, you know... It was a selfish, possessive love, but it was all she knew how to give.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Selfish

• One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• It is just that he should act with reserve towards those who act with reserve towards him. On the contrary, he gives himself entirely to those souls, who, driving from their hearts everything that is not God, and does not lead them to his love, and giving themselves to him without reserve, truly say to him: My God and my all.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Giving
  • Driving

• Now I saw braves hang themselves with amulets, leave tidbits for spirits, and still take an arrow in the neck. I, worshiping nothing and bribing nothing with prayers, rode among an enemy unscathed, scything them like summer wheat.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Enemy
  • Summer

• I can just say exactly what happened.

  

  Jose Canseco

• Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty, while bein' above suspicion is about th' only compensation fer bein' homely.

  

  Kin Hubbard