Margaret Halsey Quotes

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

Margaret Halsey

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• We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Children
  • Death
  • Wife

• As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • Character
  • Situation
  • Try

• In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Atheist
  • Appearance
  • Agnostic

• I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Imagination

• I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Important
  • Legacy

• Tahini is fantastically versatile, its deep, nutty flavour a harmonious match with roasted vegetables, grilled oily fish or barbecued meat.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Fish
  • Meat

• Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Health care
  • Initiative
  • Low

• I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Emotional

• Throughout my career I've played a lot of parts that might've been played by a man. They're human roles rather than specifically men or women. I've never been as hooked into that as a lot of women are, you know, like, 'There aren't enough roles for women.' There aren't necessarily a lot of good roles for anybody.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• Me.

  

  Hank Aaron

• You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard

• The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • College
  • English

• So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long

• It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Wonder
  • Innocent

• Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • God
  • Women

• Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Anxiety

• It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit!

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Stop
  • Picture
  • Fate

• Listen to them. Children of the night, what music they make.

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Music
  • Children
  • Night

• I think a lot of my angst comes from feeling unaccepted.

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • Feeling

• If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Silence
  • Race
  • Use

• Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children of the year," growing through rest, secret in his mothers womb, receiving the warmth of the sun through her, living the life of dependence, helplessness, littleness, darkness, and silence which, by a mystery of the Eternal Law, is the life of natural growth.

  

  Caryll Houselander
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Faith

• My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

  

  Anna Kamienska
  • Silence
  • Speech
  • Poems

• Silence! I am learning to know the silence of a Tahitian night.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Night
  • Silence
  • Knows

• Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

  

  Margaret Halsey
  • Silence