Halls Quotes

• His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

  James M. Barrie

  Equality, May, Upstairs

  The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1

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• I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Compassion, Profile, Institutions

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  Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Christmas, Thank You, Heart

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• Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

  Mother Jones

  Children, Cities, Profit

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• I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one - and stay healthy.

  Eric Dickerson

  Sports, Football, Winning

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• Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Stars, Dark, Heaven

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• I've actually considered going with my married name, Julia Hall, but all the paperwork.

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Names, Married, Paperwork

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• I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

  Lionel Blue

  Sympathy, Lessons, Lectures

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• I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.

  Dan Fouts

  Sports, Winning, Play

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• Never take an elevator in city hall.

  Harvey Milk

  Adversity, Cities, Elevators

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• The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

  Paul Simon

  Wall, Silence, Words Of Wisdom

  Song: The Sound Of Silence

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• My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

  Lillie Langtry

  Drawing, Salary, Agents

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• There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

  Cyril Connolly

  Art, Enemy, Atheism

  Enemies of Promise (1938) ch. 14

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• Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.

  Roger McGuinn

  Rocks, Guitar, Rock N Roll

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• In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.

  Laura Miller

  Years, Cities, Focus

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• As a player, it says everything about you if you made the Hall of Fame. But, then again, boy... there's something about winning a Super Bowl.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Motivational, Winning, Boys

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• I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.

  Bear Bryant

  New York, Thinking, Dinner

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• You will never see the four original Pumpkins on stage ever again, unless it's a Hall of Fame thing. But you would never see a tour. There's so much damage, there's no way.

  Billy Corgan

  Four, Way, Damage

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• I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.

  Billy Connolly

  Tickets, Different, Hecklers

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• The mistletoe hung in the castle hall,
  The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.

  Thomas Haynes Bayly

  Christmas, Wall, Hollies

  "The Mistletoe Bough". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• Prince presented us at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  Bernie Worrell

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Fame

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• I feel I have had a very interesting life, but I am rather hoping there is still more to come. I still haven't captained the England cricket team, or sung at Carnegie Hall!

  Jeffrey Archer

  Team, Interesting, England

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• In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Nature, Stars, Simple

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.44, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.

  Stephen Gardiner

  Dwelling, House, Age

  Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The House: Its Origins and Evolution”, Ivan R Dee

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• My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.

  Carl Sandburg

  Book, Thinking, Sitting

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.9, University of Illinois Press

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