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The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. -- Oscar Wilde
[Josiah P. Mendum memorial at Paine Hall][He turned] the strait-laced Boston of sixty years ago [into] the enlightened Hub of today, . . . to 'destroy bigotry and uproot the evils of superstition. -- Josiah P. Mendum
Water, the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomolous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solids. -- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
South Wales is a hub of aviation. -- Bruce Dickinson
Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education. -- Geoff Mulgan
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe. -- Walt Whitman
In 2013, we opened our first international office in London and established a European hub in Berlin. -- Jon Oringer
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. -- Elizabeth Bowen
India is an important market for Ericsson, not only as a telecom market but also as a global hub for R&D. -- Hans Vestberg
Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio. -- Mel Torme
I got lucky because my dad moved us to Silicon Valley before it really was known worldwide as an important tech hub. -- Robert Scoble
I had always been told by my parents, not implicitly told, but every inference was that Britain was the hub of the universe. -- Rolf Harris
I love the fact that Atlanta has given the entertainment industry an additional and growing hub. The opportunities personally and professionally have been a wonderful blessing. -- Kim Fields
An open-minded and diverse population that readily shares information, encourages experimentation, accepts failure and dispenses with formality and hierarchy is what makes Silicon Valley the successful hub that it is. -- Vivek Wadhwa
We continued the hard work of integrating TWA, because at that time we still thought an efficient connecting hub in St. Louis could be a profitable addition to our network. -- Gerard Arpey
I believe that Detroit has a terrific geographic position. It still is a hub of one of the most important industries in the world. There's incredible engineering and other talent. -- Daniel L. Doctoroff
America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. -- C. Wright Mills
I guess I did get to tick a big one off the bucket list, though, and that was being on a giant billboard smack-bang in the hub of Hollywood Boulevard. That was... well, pretty Hollywood. -- Jay Ryan
One of our most difficult realizations was that - in the course of two years - a connecting hub in St. Louis had gone from something we thought we needed to something we could no longer afford. -- Gerard Arpey
You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian. -- Anthony Bourdain
If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity. -- Zac Goldsmith
I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America. -- Dhani Jones
Some people have blithely dismissed growth in markets like China and India, saying Silicon Valley will always be the hub for tech: that everyone will come to us. Wake up: Because the numbers are showing money and talent is increasingly going elsewhere. -- Sarah Lacy
I moved to L.A., and I lived in the Oakland Apartments, which is this notorious hub for actor children and their stage moms. For the first few years that I lived there, Hilary Duff and Frankie Muniz frequented the apartments. I was much younger than them at the time. -- Britt Robertson
Action roles - or any role - should go to the best guy for the job. People obsess about nationality. Hollywood and America might be the hub for pop culture and cinema for the Western world, but that shouldn't suggest that all the roles should go to young American men. -- Jai Courtney
Most people are flying to Heathrow because it's a hub, so they can fly on to other places, often long-distance flights. If they can't go on those long-distance flights from Heathrow, they will go to Paris, they will go to Amsterdam, they will go to Frankfurt, because those are viable alternatives. -- Geoff Hoon
I plan to see St. Louis as a global competitor. As an international trade hub, as an incubator of new companies, as a place of culture and the arts, as a magnet for immigrants, for entrepreneurs, for animal lovers, and for gays, as a city of parks and trails, and as the sort of place that figures in young people's dreams. -- Francis G. Slay
Thirty spokes meet in the hub, -- Laozi
Spokes unite in the hub of a wheel. -- Laozi
Poetry uses the hub of a torque converter for a jello mold. -- Diane Glancy
The sound needed a hub to grow, and that hub was Big Apple. -- Kode9
The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam. -- Bhagawan Nityananda
Brooklyn is a hub; people move to Brooklyn because of what's already in Brooklyn. -- Caroline Polachek
The wheel of life has many spokes yet so few people ever leave the hub. -- Stanley Victor Paskavich
Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel. -- Napoleon Hill
Thirty spokes are joined in the wheel's hub. The hole in the middle makes it useful. -- Laozi
It's good to see that America has a hub for electronic music in Vegas, like Europe has with Ibiza. -- Paul Oakenfold
Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe. -- Christopher Morley
To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity' -- Carl von Clausewitz
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
The hub of Christianity is not "do something for Jesus." The hub of Christianity is "Jesus has done everything for you". -- Tullian Tchividjian
I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned. -- Manmohan Singh
Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub. -- Irene Dunne
The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music. -- Chuck D
Apart from the resurrection of Jesus, the eschatological orientation of the church appears as the spoke of a wheel without a hub. -- H. Richard Niebuhr
I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency -- Leo Burnett
I dream of an India that is a hub of opportunities. We can't restrict ourselves to skills only, we need to encourage entrepreneurship. -- Narendra Modi
The Lisbon hub is important to Portugal, the country. That's not going to go away. It needs to be there. The country depends on tourism. -- David Neeleman
It would be foolish to describe the logistics hub as merely ugly, for it has the horrifying, soulless, immaculate beauty characteristic of many of the workplaces of the modern world. -- Alain de Botton
Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions. -- Alain de Botton

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