Donald Hall Quotes

However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy.

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• When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.

  

  Kaitlyn Dever
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Film
  • Unknown

• Writing 'William Shakespeare's Star Wars' was a fun exercise in mixing just the right amount of the Bard with just the right amount of everyone's favorite galaxy far, far away.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Star

• Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving the elements of time, the unknown, cause and effect, fear, scenic and architectural beauty, and other seemingly ill-assorted things) which persist in clamouring for expression.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Fear

• My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Book
  • History

• I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Love
  • Books
  • Unknown

• I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Fun
  • Thought
  • Innovation

• When I was a lad in my 20s, as carefree and debonair as any other underpaid newspaperman, I happened to be a golfer who could flirt with par fairly often, and I was adventurous enough in those days to play any known or unknown thief who showed up at Goat Hills for whatever amount he fancied.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Up
  • Play
  • Enough

• It's much easier to work with an unknown.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Work
  • Unknown
  • Much

• Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Live
  • Science
  • Earth

• God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Time
  • God
  • Chaos

• There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Father
  • Man
  • Adventure

• I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Flowers' in a used bookstore when I was 16 and couldn't believe it was such a well-kept secret. How could something so beautiful and romantic be virtually unknown?

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Believe
  • Beautiful
  • Romantic

• The space program is not only scientific in purpose but also is an expression of man's insistent determination to do the nearly impossible - to explore the unknown, even at great risk.

  

  Harold Urey
  • Great
  • Man
  • Space

• I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Find
  • Unknown
  • Concept

• Horror and the unknown or the strange are always closely connected so that it is hard to create a convincing picture of shattered natural law or cosmic alienage or 'outsideness' without laying stress on the emotion of fear.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Fear
  • Law
  • Picture

• To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • You
  • Something
  • Unknown

• Every famous writer was once an unknown writer. If publishers never published new writers, they wouldn't be publishing anyone at all after a while.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • Never
  • Famous
  • Unknown

• I like to be home on a Friday night. I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Home
  • Night
  • Reality

• Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I just felt like I was interested in seeing how the songs did on their own.

  

  Joanna Newsom
  • Up

• What we need is some people to stand up with the courage of their convictions, to do what they promised when they ran for election, and fight to stop Obamacare.

  

  Jim DeMint
  • People
  • Up
  • Stop

• I don't know about the press, but I know in the town where I live everybody was aware that I was in Africa, because I remember after I got back some of the people told me that Mayor Dura of our town said he just wished they would boil me in tar.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • People
  • Live
  • Remember

• I'm the first Icelandic director who started working on U.S. movies. There are others behind me now, but it's like when Bjork opened the door for Icelandic musicians to work abroad. We're such a closed-off country, but Bjork broke the spell. And I'm glad it was a woman who did it. She showed us we could break this barrier.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Work
  • Country
  • She

• However alert we are, antiquity remains an unknown, unanticipated galaxy.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Unknown
  • Galaxy