Sarah Hall Quotes
At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your heart might not have travelled well, closed up in its cavity, quivering and gnawing at the bars of your ribcage during the commute. It might be tracking north now, along edgelands, past spoil-heaps and stands of pylons, under motorway passes, back to the higher ground. Back to him.Sarah Hall
Quotes to Explore
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
Ulysses S. Grant -
At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
Dan Hill -
I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
Victoria Moran -
These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Filipinos more than their leader because it was made to appear as if Filipinos would tolerate a leader who would torture his own people, who would utilize his executive prerogatives for abuses.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
Warren Spector -
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
Barbara Demick -
A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
Washed Out -
I genuinely liked all of the cast members very much. Steve had a wicked sense of humor. I remember Russell coming to my rescue, once. I watched Eric evolve before everyone's eyes. Maurice loved what he did, so. He treated his character with respect, down to the costuming.
Madeleine Stowe -
I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
Rand Paul -
I know Penny Toler and coach Ross have worked hard to put together a strong team this year, and I am ready to start the season with my teammates.
Candace Parker -
It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.
Aaron Lazar
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
Sam Heughan -
I have no regrets.
Ralph Fiennes -
Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.
Larry Wilcox -
I'd like President Bush to think maybe there's another way to think, that maybe Kissinger was wrong when he says we had to go in there because he was wrong about Vietnam.
F. Murray Abraham -
If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
Wendell Berry -
Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.
V. S. Naipaul
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From the very beginning all beings are Buddha.
Hakuin Ekaku -
I wasn't ready for this, but then I probably never would be, and this year, like so much else, wouldn't wait. I had no choice but to get out of my car, with everyone watching and begin in earnest, alone. So I did
Sarah Dessen -
Sending our Armed Forces across an international border clearly is a major political decision, with profound implications for Britain's international relations.
Liam Fox -
No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.
H. P. Lovecraft -
If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.
J. E. H. MacDonald -
At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your heart might not have travelled well, closed up in its cavity, quivering and gnawing at the bars of your ribcage during the commute. It might be tracking north now, along edgelands, past spoil-heaps and stands of pylons, under motorway passes, back to the higher ground. Back to him.
Sarah Hall