Donald Hall Quotes

Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.

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• The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Learned
  • Ignorant

• The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.

  

  Rafik Hariri
  • People
  • Time
  • Change

• I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Think
  • Loved
  • Old

• How come foreign accents are so sexy? If I say, 'I'm going to the store,' it sounds boring, benign and rudimentary. But if it's said with an accent, it sounds fundamentally cool.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Cool
  • Said
  • Sexy

• I'm not super, super religious. If this is okay to say, I'm more culturally Jewish.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Religious
  • More
  • Say

• You're either ghetto or you're not.

  

  Vince Staples
  • You
  • Ghetto
  • Either

• Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

  

  Felix Bloch
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Youth

• Many hedge fund managers have become billionaires; perhaps this - plus their reputations as the smartest guys in the room - is why they have captured the investing public's imagination.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Why
  • Imagination
  • Become

• Every child should at least grow up in family rather than without one.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Up
  • Family
  • Child

• Very, very rare that you do a job knowing that the audience is desperate for you to do that job. Most films you make don't get released, is the fact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Job
  • You
  • Audience

• Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Government
  • Afraid
  • Marry

• It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Star

• I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Kind
  • Look
  • Fantasy

• I don't like business talkers, you know, people who are constantly like, 'Blah blah blah movies.' I find it incredibly boring.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Business
  • Movies

• Mike Schur knows exactly what everything should look like but, at the same time, is super collaborative and loves working with actors that make choices and bring stuff to the table.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Time
  • Choices
  • Look

• We were determined to be in the fashion, and to visit the various delightful watering places on Long Island Sound. Of course, it would be necessary to combine business with pleasure and pursue our calling as beggars.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Business
  • Fashion

• When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Love
  • Girl
  • I Love

• No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Strong
  • Enough
  • Text

• There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Know
  • Just

• Futurism is another American myth: whether Kennedy, Johnson, Reagan or Obama, American presidents all come into office with a new program, and the conviction that the country is going to be better than ever.

  

  James Hillman
  • Country
  • American

• Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Key
  • Obesity
  • Contradictory

• I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Time
  • Nice
  • Rest

• My parents were marvelously educated people.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • People
  • Parent

• Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Famous