Mandy Hubbard Quotes

Just being near the water makes me ache for it, makes my skin tingle with the desire to run until I am chest-deep and the water wraps around my skin like a satin ribbon, making the worries, the aches, the stress unwind. Sometimes, I wonder if this is how a recovering alcoholic would feel if someone put a beer in her hand. If her body would wage war against her mind as mine does. ~ Mandy Hubbard

One, two, I'm coming for you, three, four, you better lock your door.'
-Nightmare on Elm Street -Fool me twice by Mandy Hubbard ~ Mandy Hubbard

You don't have to sleep, you don't have to dream, to have nightmares. ~ Mandy Hubbard

I'm only halfway through with my makeup when Angela strolls out of the bathroom in a miniskirt and backless top.
"Wow," Mindy says. I wonder if it's the same wow I was thinking. As in, Wow, skanky much? I decide not to ask. ~ Mandy Hubbard

But who bothers looking beyond the surface? Who even knows anything about Cinderella's Prince Charming - other than he's a handsome prince? ~ Mandy Hubbard

Somehow I lost the power to be happy, but I'm taking it back. ~ Mandy Hubbard

You were twisting your wet hair up into a ponytail, and then you saw us, and you smiled ... "
"Then why didn't you-"
"Because you were smiling for him. And I would have had to have been an idiot to get in between that. ~ Mandy Hubbard

What are you doing? Taking a nap?"

-Ben Mackenzie ~ Mandy Hubbard

When the corset is deemed tight enough (as in, "Oh look, her lungs are the size of peanuts!"), the two maids mumble something about a petticoat, which I think must be the gown thing that goes over the corset. It's softer than I'd expected, which comes as a relief. I'll take comfort anywhere I can get it. ~ Mandy Hubbard

The books are all leather, and the titles are old. I pause at a collection of Shakespeare. Othello. Romeo and Juliet. A Midsummer Night's Dream. I pull Hamlet out and look at it, but then set it back down on the shelf.
I pass a row of books on philosophy, and another on astrology. Up and down I go, pausing now and then, but not pulling any books out. I'm not sure what I expected to find. The Idiot's Guide to Time Travel? ~ Mandy Hubbard

Sometimes, people simply want to believe things because it's easier that way. But it doesn't make it the truth -Cole ~ Mandy Hubbard

Alone with Alex? I'd rather get a root canal. ~ Mandy Hubbard

Sometimes people simply believe the things because it's easier that way. But it doesn't make it the truth. ~ Mandy Hubbard

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Whom the Gods love die young no matter how long they live. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Life without her would be an endless succession of purposeless days lived with a heavy hopelessness ~ L. Ron Hubbard

In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Some steps need to be taken alone. It's the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be. ~ Mandy Hale

I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors ~ Elbert Hubbard

Your enemy is one who misunderstands you; why should you not rise above the fog and see his error and respect him for the good qualities you find in him? ~ Elbert Hubbard

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it. ~ Elbert Hubbard

He stared at my wet hair. "You been under that fucking waterfall again?"
"Not today." I didn't get why it bothered him so much, unless maybe the thought it set a bad example for Nicki. "Why do you care?"
He shrugged. "I don't. Knock your brains loose if you want." He blew out a huge cloud of smoke, which I thought was a pretty ironic thing to do while giving me a safety lecture. ~ Jennifer R. Hubbard

A PRAYER The supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned, rich, famous, powerful, or "good," but simply to be radiant. I desire to radiate health, cheerfulness, calm courage and good will. I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural, clean in mind and clean in body, unaffected - ready to say "I do not know," if it be so, and to meet all men on an absolute equality - to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid. I wish others to live their lives, too - up to their highest, fullest and best. To that end I pray that I may never meddle, interfere, dictate, give advice that is not wanted, or assist when my services are not needed. If I can help people, I'll do it by giving them a chance to help themselves; and if I can uplift or inspire, let it be by example, inference, and suggestion, rather than by injunction and dictation. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Happiness is a habit - cultivate it. ~ Elbert Hubbard

And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Growing up, I was obsessed with Disney movies like 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Aladdin' and 'Beauty And The Beast.' I was always singing the songs from these movies, so to find myself in the studio with Alan Menken was an amazing experience. In fact, it was a dream come true. ~ Mandy Moore

Change starts with YOU. When you step up, you invite others to step up, too. ~ Mandy Hale

Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional. ~ Mandy Moore

Believe me," he said, pointing his finger at me like a gun, "no good comes from lying about what you really want. ~ Jennifer R. Hubbard

Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

My father was right: people are always leaving. They fall in and out of your life like shadows. ~ Susan Hubbard

And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper! ~ L. Ron Hubbard

What Governor Romney is proposing is an across-the-board cut in marginal tax rates for households, every household in America by 20 percent. And we'll have to broaden the base to pay for that. Also, a very deep cut in the corporate rate. ~ Glenn Hubbard

You gain by giving - so give sympathy and cheerful loyalty to the institution. Be proud of it. ~ Elbert Hubbard

I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important. ~ Mandy Moore

I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up. ~ Mandy Moore

I recall the rasp of charcoal on newsprint, the chewing-gum stretch of a kneaded eraser, the precarious bite of a razor blade in a new pencil. The vibrancy of fresh watercolors squeezed from a tube. A new sketchbook, cracked open to flawless white. The way the smell of turpentine made me feel simultaneously sick and excited. ~ Kirsten Hubbard

Back then I thought Mother Nature split the good guys from the bad guys with a fat black line. But the thing is, in real life, they're often the same guy. ~ Kirsten Hubbard

I'm my own worst critic, so I try and not focus on what I've done wrong, or what I could improve on. ~ Mandy Moore

Asking patients to describe what triggers their habitual behavior is called awareness training, and like AA's insistence on forcing alcoholics to recognize their cues, it's the first step in habit reversal training. The tension that Mandy felt in her nails cued her nail biting habit. ~ Charles Duhigg

The world may be ending, but all I could see was beginnings. ~ Mandy M. Roth

All great cathedrals began their building by the placement of a single stone. The building unit of a great society is the individual. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for him, speak well of him, and stand by the institution he represents. Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness. If you must growl, condemn, and eternally find fault - resign your position, and when you are outside, damn to your heart's content - but as long as you are part of the institution, do not condemn it. If you do, the first high wind that comes along will blow you away, and probably you will never know why. ~ Elbert Hubbard

No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a finite planet We must learn ethical evolution quickly As we seek to facilitate a gentle birth, a graceful and nonviolent transition to the next stage of our evolution, we will discover a natural pattern, a design of our birth transition, and develop a plan to cooperate with this design. ~ Barbara Marx Hubbard

The fool is not the man who merely does foolish things. The fool is the man who does not know enough to cash in on his foolishness. ~ Elbert Hubbard

I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment. ~ Mandy Moore

The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into. ~ Robert Gottlieb

A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Religion is the first sense of community. Your sense of community occurs by reason of mutual experience with others. ~ L. Ron Hubbard

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are. ~ Elbert Hubbard

…I love you," he said to her, although at that point he was certain she could no longer comprehend the words. "I'd trade places with you in an instant, Mandy Valems… you never deserved this… why would anyone do something so terrible!?" A cold chill froze his heart when he saw her empty eyes again.

The fluorescent lights in the dim room sparked to life all of a sudden, brightness so sharp that it startled him. In a flash, sharp and sudden, quicker than a lightning strike, the bulbs flickered and exploded with a few jingling pops. ~ Rebecca McNutt

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. ~ Elbert Hubbard