Hurst Quotes

Bits have unique properties, then, that we can use to our advantage: they're super-small, super-fast, easily acquired and created and copied and shared in near-infinite quantity, protected from the ravages of time, and free from the limitations of distance and space. In practice, though, bits reveal several paradoxes: they're weightless, but they weigh us down; they don't take up any space, but they always seem to pile up; they're created in an instant, but they can last forever; they move quickly, but they can waste our time. ~ Mark Hurst

Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do. ~ Fannie Hurst

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster. ~ Fannie Hurst

That's cool." Hale nodded, unfazed. "But just so you know, that"
he pointed to the piece of metal peeking out from behind the stage
"is a Hurst 5,000 PSI hydraulic spreader-cutter, more commonly know as the Jaws of Life."
"So?"
"So I'm not a normal boy. ~ Ally Carter

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality. ~ Fannie Hurst

Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold. ~ Jimmy Greaves

When someone loves you, they always think you're beautiful. Those who don't see your beauty can't really see you at all. ~ Andrea Hurst

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not. ~ Fannie Hurst

Football is a game of tomorrows. ~ Geoff Hurst

If you can find a way to add some adventure to a mundane daily commute, I suggest you do that. Life is too short, my friends. ~ Robert Hurst

A motorcycle is an independent thing. ~ Ryan Hurst

But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum. ~ Fannie Hurst

Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners. His sisters were fine women, with an air of decided fashion. His brother-in-law, Mr. Hurst, merely looked the gentleman; but his friend Mr. Darcy soon drew the attention of the room by his fine, tall person, handsome features, noble mien, and the report which was in general circulation within five minutes after his entrance, of his having ten thousand a year. The gentlemen pronounced him to be a fine figure of a man, the ladies declared he was much handsomer than Mr. Bingley, and he was looked at with great admiration for about half the evening, till his manners gave a disgust which turned the tide of his popularity; for he was discovered to be proud; to be above his company, and above being pleased; and not all his large estate in Derbyshire could then save him from having a most forbidding, disagreeable countenance, and being unworthy to be compared with his friend. ~ Jane Austen

The overload makes users less productive and more stressed; thus, there's a need for some solution. Passively ignoring the problem won't work, since bits are still heavy, even if we pretend not to notice. ~ Mark Hurst

It's far too rarely stated that the technology industry is not in the business of making people productive. It is only in the business of selling more technology. ~ Mark Hurst

I don't know. I always love to find where a character's heart is, and by that I mean where they're intrinsically vulnerable, and to bring that out in myself. ~ Ryan Hurst

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles. ~ Fannie Hurst

One evening in one of those Over-the-Rhine cafes which were plentiful along Vine Street of the Cincinnati of the nineties, a traveling salesman leaned across his stein of Moerlein's Extra Light and openly accused Ray Schmidt of being innocent. ~ Fannie Hurst

We dig our graves with our teeth. ~ Fannie Hurst

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing. ~ Fannie Hurst

Mr. Darcy said very little, and Mr. Hurst nothing at all. The former was divided between admiration of the brilliancy which exercise had given to her complexion, and doubt as to the occasion's justifying her coming so far alone. The latter was thinking only of his breakfast. ~ Jane Austen

I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals. ~ Fannie Hurst

God is always there to pick each time you fall. He's always there with a word of comfort in the midst of the storm. Trust Jesus! ~ Shearon D. Hurst

Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurst. ~ Christy Wilson Beam

To know true love, even though it was impossible to keep, had finally cracked her heart open enough to let someone else in. ~ Andrea Hurst

Bit literacy means letting the bits go; anything else perpetuates the problem. ~ Mark Hurst

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far. ~ Fannie Hurst

Here's what hurst the most," Kafuku said. "I didn't truly understand her--or at least some crucial part of her. And it may well end that way now that she's dead and gone. Like a small, locked safe lying at the bottom of the ocean. It hurts a lot."

Tatsuki thought for a moment before speaking.

"But Mr. Kafuku, can any of us ever perfectly understand another person? However much we may love them? ~ Haruki Murakami

When we listen with the ear of our heart (full body listening), we experience our prophetic nature and share our messages with the world. ~ Vanessa F. Hurst

Love took prisoners no matter what the circumstances; it broke open the heart with no regard for consequences. ~ Andrea Hurst

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative. ~ Fannie Hurst

But what Jane hadn't known about Michael Hurst until the day she stepped into his tent was that this adventurous, driven, gruff, brilliant explorer was also handsome. Blink-twice-and-try-to-breathe-and-still-think-you're-seeing-an-angel handsome. ~ Karen Hawkins

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it. ~ Fannie Hurst

Brookfield, my correspondent, writes that last week he observed him in the moonlight at an advanced hour gazing up at his window."
"Whose window? Brookfield's?"
"Yes, sir. Presumably under the impression that it was the young lady's."
"But what the deuce is he doing at Twing at all?"
"Mr Little was compelled to resume his old position as tutor to Lord Wickhammersley's son at Twing Hall, sir. Owing to having been unsuccessful in some speculations at Hurst Park at the end of October."
"Good Lord, Jeeves! Is there anything you don't know?"
"I couldn't say, sir. ~ P.G. Wodehouse

The job of the art is to really convey and support that empathetic response. I always try to find where the character is mushy, and then bring that to the forefront. ~ Ryan Hurst

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book. ~ Fannie Hurst

Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off. ~ Fannie Hurst

Wolves mated for life. Where was he? Where was the echo to her howl, her mate? Was there no other lone wolf, searching the hills for her? ~ Andrea Hurst

His sisters were anxious for his having an estate of his own; but, though he was now only established as a tenant, Miss Bingley was by no means unwilling to preside at his table - nor was Mrs. Hurst, who had married ~ Jane Austen

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color. ~ Fannie Hurst

The Copse at Hurstbourne is one of those fancy-sounding titles for a brand-new tract of condominiums on the outskirts of town. 'Copse' as in 'a thicket of small trees.' 'Hurst' as in 'hillock, knoll, or mound.' And 'bourne' as in 'brook or stream.' All of these geological and botanical wonders did seem to conjoin within the twenty parcels of the development, but it was hard to understand why it couldn't have just been called Shady Acres, which is what it was. Apparently people aren't willing to pay a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a home that doesn't sound like it's part of an Anglo-Saxon land grant. These often quite utilitarian dwellings are never named after Jews or Mexicans. Try marketing Rancho Feinstein if you want to lose money in a hurry. Or Paco Sanchez Park. Middle-class Americans aspire to tone, which is equated, absurdly, with the British gentry. ~ Sue Grafton

There is within me a knot of cruelty borne by the stream of love, much as our blood sometimes bears the seed of our destruction ... ~ James Hurst

...then tossed the coat into the water. "Hurst! That's a perfectly good coat!"
"Yes, and I have a perfectly good life. One of those two things is not replaceable. ~ Karen Hawkins

One of the important things is that a lot of people forget that a biker club is a secret society. ~ Ryan Hurst

Lust shouts. Love whispers. Only the heart knows the difference. ~ Jan Hurst-Nicholson

You don't have to say a thing except yes. You don't have to do anything, either, I'm quite willing to plan it all."
"You?"
"Yes me."
"You'd plan all of it? Even the wedding?"
"Why not?"
"You don't even like to plan your own breakfast."
He grinned. "You mean more to me tban bacon."
"More than [i]bacon?[/i] I'm honored."
"You should be, my foolish pea brain. ~ Karen Hawkins

I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood. ~ Anthony Fauci

She walked off to Hurst; and got a good priest there-- one whom she had known at Antwerp-- to write for her. But no answer came. It was like crying into the awful stillness of night. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning. ~ Fannie Hurst

Pride is a wonderful terrible thing a seed that bears two vines life and death. ~ James Hurst

The best way out of your own troubles is to help somebody else with theirs," Grandpa John said. "Works every time. ~ Andrea Hurst

He addressed himself to Miss Bennet, with a polite congratulation; Mr. Hurst also made her a slight bow, and said he was "very glad;" but diffuseness and warmth remained for Bingley's salutation. ~ Jane Austen

Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets. ~ Fannie Hurst

Mr. Hurst looked at her with astonishment.
'Do you prefer reading to cards?' said he; 'that is rather singular.'
'I prefer a great many things to cards, Mr. Hurst,' said Elisabeth; 'Not the least of which is the sensation of a newly sharpened blade as it punctures the round belly of a man.'
Mr. Hurst was silent for the remainder of the evening. ~ Seth Grahame-Smith

Trust, like the lubricant in an engine, is noticed only when it is gone and the motor has seized up. ~ David Hurst

Family. A snug kind of word. ~ Fannie Hurst

I remember Julianne Moore talking about acting and she said, "I'm just looking for truth. When people watch, they're not looking to see me. They're looking to see themselves." That's one of my new favorite sayings ~ Ryan Hurst

When it seemed like I was going to really have to be there at Todd's [Willingham] execution, I don't think I could have done it. I think I began to distance myself. I didn't visit as often; I didn't write as often. This was kind of after my conversation with [fire science expert] Gerald Hurst. And the [car] accident made sure that I didn't have to go up there. But I think he and I both shared that. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert