Hal Urban Quotes

Kind words cost little, but accomplish much.

Hal Urban

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• Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and then I write on my laptop in the recliner and handle the business side of email at my desk, which is sagging in the middle - maybe from so many words?

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Up
  • Business
  • Dream

• Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Words
  • Attitude
  • Leadership

• To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Up
  • May
  • Words

• Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Strong
  • Words
  • Strength

• The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • World
  • Good
  • House

• What I look for in a voice is for it to be unique. I don't really care if a singer sings well. Really, it's about emotion, or being able to sing the lyrics and actually mean it. A lot of singers sing good notes but forget about what words they use.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Good
  • Words
  • Unique

• Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • God
  • Men
  • Words

• A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh coat of quicksilver - in other words, when it acquires new sensitiveness; and the novel's success lies in its own sensitiveness, not in the success of its subject matter.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Success
  • Words
  • Lies

• The disciples were absorbed in a discussion of Lao-tzu's dictum: Those who know do not say; Those who say do not know. When the master entered, they asked him what the words meant. Said the master, 'Which of you knows the fragrance of a rose?' All of them indicated that they knew. Then he said, 'put it into words.' All of them were silent.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Words
  • Rose

• But the line of thought that I'd been chasing for several days was implicit in the ruins of the old Roman Empire, which gradually destroyed itself by substituting the faith in a legion of miraculous words for the strength of armies and the weight of walls.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Words
  • Faith

• Panama: '...a deadly spot the end of the world almost....There are 20,000 British coloured people working on the canal...; they are mostly from Jamaica & smell too revolting for words....the Panamanians are a very queer people, all dagoes of course, though very pompous and dirty' (31 March - 1 April 1920)

  

  Edward VIII
  • People
  • World
  • Words

• When I'm on a stage, it's just me, singing a song with words that I wrote and I believe in. And if I don't believe in them anymore, I'll stop singing that song.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • Believe
  • Song
  • Words

• At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words.

  

  Chelsea Hobbs
  • Life
  • Words

• I usually submit a novel at a certain number of words, and when I've finished working with my editor, the novel is longer than when I submitted it. I need my editor to help me open up the story.

  

  David Bergen
  • Up
  • Help
  • Words

• The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing.

  

  Doris Humphrey
  • Art
  • Words

• The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'

  

  Sara Bareilles
  • Women
  • Family
  • Words

• I love donating my time and serving other people. Just seeing the faces of people in need light up when they see you... There is no way I can put it into words. You feel like you did something right.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I've always felt that the quality of the voice is where the real content of a song lies. Words only suggest an experience, but the voice is that experience.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Song

• If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject, or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Mean
  • Joy
  • Flower

• A community whose life is not irrigated by art and science, by religion and philosophy, day upon day, is a community that exists half alive.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • Life
  • Art
  • Science

• Certainly, I look for different characters 'cause I always like to keep people guessing, and I also don't like to get typecast.

  

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  • People
  • Different

• You're speaking coldly towards me but why is it that my heart isn't getting cold at all? Is it because your heart is saying something else? Is it because there's something else you're hoping that I'll hear? So tell me the real reason. Why are you doing this? I'll become your strength. I have the confidence to do that.

  

  Dong Young-bae Big Bang
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Why

• Kind words cost little, but accomplish much.

  

  Hal Urban
  • Words