Daryl Franklin Hohl (Daryl Hall) Quotes

I'm a born collaborator. This is what I was born to do, really.

Daryl Franklin Hohl

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• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Way

• There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Black

• Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

  

  Balthazar Getty
  • Good
  • Future
  • Me

• To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Yourself
  • Golf
  • Distance

• Those looking for ideology in the White House should consider this: For the men who rule our world, rules are for other people.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• In 1995, Glaxo bought Burroughs Wellcome and became the presumptive leader in AIDS therapy.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Leader
  • Therapy
  • Aids

• I'd like to say to all my fans out there, thanks for the support. And to all my doubters, thank you very much because you guys have also pushed me.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Support
  • Thanks
  • Thankful

• If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Science

• Sometimes friends move apart from each other for whatever reason.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Friends
  • Reason
  • Sometimes

• I knew being accepted was going to be hard, but I knew I was involved in a situation that was going to bring opportunities to other blacks.

  

  Larry Doby
  • Situation
  • Opportunities

• You have to stay in shape for dance. I don't want to be too skinny, but I don't want to be overweight. I want to be in the middle.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Want
  • You
  • Dance

• Al Roker is one of the most sensible people you'll ever meet. He's raised two daughters and a son. And I love him, in that as jovial as he is, he's a straight shooter. He's a New Yorker, as they say.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Love
  • Son

• The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Serious

• 'Is it the regency you want, or me?''The regency. You, sweetheart, are the worthless dross that comes with it.'

  

  Tanith Lee

• No, really, Ronnie, it's good to share information when you know someone else is dating the lunarly challenged.

  

  Laurell K. Hamilton
  • Good
  • Dating

• If you care passionately about something has become the only test to determine if something is constitutional. How passionately do you care?

  

  Antonin Scalia

• All that time is lost which might be better employed.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Lost

• It is the mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to erase Israel from the map of the region.

  

  Ali Khamenei
  • Islamic

• I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

  

  Moon Unit Zappa
  • Miserable
  • Locked

• Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

  

  John Keats
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Poetry

• A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Chief
  • Minister
  • Warfare

• The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• Everybody in the world has problems, and the nice thing about entertainment is you get to forget about those problems and have a good time for a couple of hours.

  

  David Bryan Bon Jovi
  • Time
  • World
  • Good

• I'm a born collaborator. This is what I was born to do, really.

  

  Daryl Franklin Hohl