Donald Hall Quotes

In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.

Donald Hall

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• I am as passionate about the England team as anyone.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Team
  • Passionate
  • England

• You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Hate
  • Tree
  • Roots

• To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Family
  • Respect

• If Europe's outer border is not blocked off, it makes no sense to speak of quotas.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Speak
  • Sense
  • Europe

• In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Feel
  • Easy
  • Tennis

• 'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Lost
  • Air

• I mean, if we try to 'fluff up' 'Nikita?' We're done. If we try to 'fluff' 'Nikita,' I don't want to be involved and I don't want to watch the show.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Up
  • Done
  • Want

• Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • School
  • Year
  • Medical

• Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been: passionate, fiery, and absolutely committed to social justice.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • She
  • Justice
  • Model

• I'm sure that President Trump will do plenty of things that people don't like, plenty of things people do like, and the people who don't like it, at that point, certainly take advantage of your rights and protest it - and try to seek change or do whatever you want.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • Want
  • Change

• One of my top tips for aspiring entrepreneurs: Tell everyone you know about your idea. This runs contrary to the instinct that most people have, because they're afraid someone is going to 'steal my ideal.' Ideas alone are worth very little; it's in the execution and market feedback that companies are made.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Alone
  • Ideas

• I'm a communicator.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Communicator

• Krapp: Ah finish your booze now and get to your bed. Go on with this drivel in the morning. Or leave it at that. (Pause.) Leave it at that.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Morning

• Every country needs another country to make fun of.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Country
  • Fun

• Piaget, who was originally trained as a biologist, views intellectual development as an interaction of an inherited genetic program with the environment. It is no coincidence that he calls this conception 'genetic epistemology,' in effect the study of the hereditary unfolding of understanding.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Understanding
  • Environment
  • Study

• There still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of love and art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with love.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Men
  • Art
  • Desire

• Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• If it's really so wonderful that both partners have to work to make a living to pay for their house, for health insurance, someone is obviously going to get the short end of the stick.

  

  Eric Braeden
  • Work
  • House
  • Health

• I know there are a lot of tough stories out there about Sinatra, but he was so sweet to Bobby and me. He even had us replace him one night in the main room. He didn't get Sammy or Dean; he said, 'I want the kids to do it.' Man, what an honor.

  

  Bill Medley The Righteous Brothers
  • Kids
  • Night
  • Sweet

• There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Men
  • Taken

• Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility.

  

  William Godwin
  • Thinking
  • Trouble
  • Assuming

• Whether it's a designer or a musician, I think the most important thing for people who express things are to be unique. There should be something unique only to them.

  

  Dong Young-bae Big Bang
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• Instead of trying to come up and pontificate on what literature is, you need to talk with children, to teachers, and make sure they get poetry in the curriculum early.

  

  Rita Dove
  • Children
  • Literature
  • Instead

• In anything you write - in a short story, a poem - there has to be a counter-motion; it can't go all in one direction.

  

  Donald Hall