Hal Borland Quotes

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.

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• Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Bad
  • Reviews
  • Turkey

• Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • American
  • Progress
  • Taxes

• When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

  

  Gabriel Basso
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Design

• Pakistan has dozens of laboratories and production and storage sites scattered across the country. After developing warheads with highly enriched uranium, it has more recently tried to do the same with more-powerful and compact plutonium.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Country
  • Powerful
  • Same

• Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Still
  • Surviving
  • Greeks

• They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Never
  • Going
  • Before

• Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Time
  • Change
  • Measure

• One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Government
  • Taken

• I've written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Intelligence
  • Evolution

• Language is the dress of thought.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Language
  • Thought
  • Dress

• It is important to distinguish between the power of the Internet to make the great change it can, and the limits and vulnerabilities of that change without real-time political mobilization deployed globally to protect those who venture out, especially in closed societies, into the heady new vistas it offers.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• Having a multi-cultural background has granted me access into different ideologies, cultures, and ways of living. It has shaped who I am and how I participate in the world.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • World
  • Living
  • Background

• Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist...

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Rebel

• Ronaldo (Brazilian footballer) was my hero. He was the best forward I've ever seen. He was so fast that he could score a goal from nothing and he struck the ball better than anyone I've seen.

  

  Lionel Messi
  • Hero

• I think a woman can come into her power at any age.

  

  Lauren Ambrose
  • Power
  • Age

• I'd got a part in the original cast of 'Cats' when I was 16, and that kept me going for a while. After that, I felt lost, both personally and professionally - I was trying to find a way not to be seen only as this bubbly, bright, vivacious person. It felt like I'd lost the freedom to make mistakes.

  

  Bonnie Langford
  • Trying
  • Freedom
  • Lost

• One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Creation
  • Agencies
  • Departments

• After graduation, I wanted to work for 'Sassy', which I loved, but it had folded. So I wound up at 'Seventeen' for three years on staff and two as a contributor, and I wrote these great stories that nobody ever believes 'Seventeen' does. Serious stories for teens about social justice issues - gun control, migrant farm workers.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• Neal Stephenson is great. He can write about a white wall for six pages, and it sounds fascinating. I read the whole 'Baroque Cycle' and 'Cryptonomicon.'

  

  Daniel Suarez
  • Great
  • Wall

• Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.  Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within.  May I consider the wise man rich.  As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.

  

  Plato
  • May
  • Beautiful
  • Wise

• October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Sight
  • October
  • Horizon