Donald Hall Quotes
I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them.Donald Hall
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
Becki Newton -
People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
Karl Pilkington -
You don't have to be something to do something.
Gavin Newsom -
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
H. L. Mencken -
Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
Aaron Tveit -
A lot happens in 20 years.
Pat Morita
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I have no privacy anymore.
Felix Baumgartner -
The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
Walter Rudolf Hess -
I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.
Karisma Kapoor -
Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
Adam Brody -
Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
Victor Cruz -
Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
Aaron Allston
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It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.
Lalu Prasad Yadav -
I don't want to hear about my death.
Oriana Fallaci -
Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
Victor Hugo -
When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
Parvesh Cheena -
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
Saint Augustine -
We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
F. Sionil Jose
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
Sammy Cahn -
Apart from my heart, I feel everything grows old in me. Even my heart has something artificial. It has been sewn by the dancers in a soft, pink satin purse like their shoes.
Edgar Degas -
The guitar chose me.
Charlie Byrd -
Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.
Marlee Matlin -
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
Ezra Pound -
I have written some poetry and two prose books about baseball, but if I had been a rich man, I probably would not have written many of the magazine essays that I have had to do. But, needing to write magazine essays to support myself, I looked to things that I cared about and wanted to write about, and certainly baseball was one of them.
Donald Hall