Hal Borland Quotes

Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?

Hal Borland

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• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Book
  • Memory
  • Admire

• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Time
  • Home
  • Road

• I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Films
  • Roles
  • Image

• It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • People
  • Music
  • Bad

• It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

  

  Tacitus
  • Difficult
  • Pleasure
  • Bear

• Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Think
  • Fight
  • Stand

• The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.

  

  Walter Martin
  • May
  • Soul
  • Success

• As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Teenager

• I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Like
  • Fans

• Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Future
  • Overpopulation

• I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Style

• I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Find
  • Fight
  • Watch

• Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Know
  • Dad
  • Like

• I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Try

• The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse... Our system is crazy because we're planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Men
  • City
  • Crazy

• The Holy Spirit wants to convert the words of Scripture into transformed personalities.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Words
  • Spirit
  • Personality

• Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture into this brave new world, bright with possibilities, or retreat to the safety of our familiar but sterile past? I am for crossing the frontier.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • World
  • History
  • Past

• After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.

  

  Leon Panetta
  • World
  • War
  • Fall

• Autumn is the eternal corrective. It is ripeness and color and a time of maturity; but it is also breadth, and depth, and distance. What man can stand with autumn on a hilltop and fail to see the span of his world and the meaning of the rolling hills that reach to the far horizon?

  

  Hal Borland
  • Time
  • World
  • Fall