Halls Quotes - Page 29

• The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

  W. H. Auden

  Pride, Hands, People

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• Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome;
  The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Family, Home, Domes

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1848). “Three Hours: Or, The Vigil of Love: and Other Poems”, p.187

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• In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when the nations went a whoring they invariably ended by denying God, I think, and until all sexual irregularities and not some of them are penal the Church will never reconquer England.

  E. M. Forster

  Atheist, Thinking, Church

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• In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

  Agnes Smedley

  Paper, Littles, Holding On

  Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.247, Courier Corporation

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• A girl who is really pretty - whether she wraps herself in an abayah, a nun's habit, or the front hall rug - never wraps herself so that the world can't tell.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Beauty, Girl

  P.J. O'Rourke (2009). “Peace Kills”, p.120, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The same person who would never raise his hand in a lecture hall of two hundred people might blog to two thousand, or two million, without thinking twice. The same person who finds it difficult to introduce himself to strangers might establish a presence online and then extend these relationships into the real world.

  Susan Cain

  Real, Thinking, Hands

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.63, Broadway Books

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• "You are so close." "To whom? Margravine, not even to himself. This place, this island: all his life he's done nothing but hop from island to island. Is that a reason? Does there have to be a reason? Shall he tell you: he works for no Whitehall, non conceivable unless, ha, ha, the network of white halls in his own brain: these featureless corridors he keeps swept and correct for occasional visiting agents."

  Thomas Pynchon

  Islands, White, Brain

  "V". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1961.

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• Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Gambling, Two, Jingles

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• It is day two of the Democratic convention, and apparently they had a huge lighting problem in the convention hall today. They worked all day on it. They still couldn't get President Obama out of Bill Clinton's shadow.

  Jay Leno

  Two, President, Shadow

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• Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

  Chip Kelly

  Average, Lasts, Last Time

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• Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.

  George Wein

  Home, Rhode Island, Islands

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• We are not telling Tudor history; we are creating ' Wolf Hall ' from novels, which are already a rereading of Tudor history.

  Damian Lewis

  Creating, Tudors, Rereading

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• Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Lying, Dark

  The Fellowship of the Ring epigraph (1954)

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• But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in and out; the drawing-room, where one receives formal visits; the sitting-room, where the members of the family come and go as they list; but beyond that, far beyond, are other rooms, the handles of whose doors perhaps are never turned; no one knows the way to them, no one knows whither they lead; and in the innermost room, the holy of holies, the soul sits alone and waits for a footstep that never comes.

  Edith Wharton

  Doors, Drawing, House

  Edith Wharton (2016). “Early Short Stories: American Literature”, p.143, VM eBooks

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• Here is a hall without exit, a tunnel without end.

  Truman Capote

  Tunnels, Exit, Ends

  Truman Capote (2012). “The Grass Harp”, p.236, Vintage

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• I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid third interval that had suddenly slipped between them and would never end.

  Sylvia Plath

  Night, Doors, Ends

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.13, Hamilton Books

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• listen, a goad's anything that provokes or incites an enemy --- let me have a go: cursed deamon! you have met your end! the shivering fire awaits you! i shall spread your vile essance across this hall like... um, like margarine, a very think layer of it... --- ye-es... im not sure he'll pick up on that analogy. never mind, keep going.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Thinking, Fire, Mind

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• And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for their habitation in the Deeps of Time and in the midst of the innumerable stars.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Fire, Space

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wrapped my arms around my knees and stared through the window's wavy glass. The red velvet curtains were drawn around the tiny alcove, and I was enveloped by an odd sense of peace, knowing that in twenty minutes, the halls were going to be crowded; music was going to be blaring; and I was going to go from being an only child to one of a hundred sisters, so I knew to savor the silence while it lasted.

  Ally Carter

  Children, Glasses, Knowing

  Ally Carter (2010). “Gallagher Girls: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have To Kill You”, p.4, Hachette UK

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• I believe the defining moment was when certain persons, who shall remain nameless, objected to my fuchsia silk striped waistcoat. I loved that waistcoat. I put my foot down, right then and there; I do not mind telling you!" To punctuate his deeply offended feelings, he stamped one silver-and-pearl-decorated high heel firmly. "No one tells me what I can and cannot wear!" He snapped up a lace fan from where it lay on a hall table and fanned himself vigorously with it for emphasis.

  Gail Carriger

  Believe, High Heels, Feet

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• Mrs Bawden yanked me away from the table and dragged me across the food hall. I tried to twist away from her, but she had a grip like a python on steroids.

  Malorie Blackman

  Python, Twists, Noughts And Crosses

  Malorie Blackman (2009). “Naughts & Crosses”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

  Gayle Forman

  Night, Careers, Firsts

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.113, Penguin

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• The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.

  Karl Marx

  Book, Thinking, Dust

  Karl Marx (1967). “Economic and philosophic manuscripts of 1884”

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• Dead girl walking” the boys say in the halls. “Tell us your secrets” the girls whisper, one toilet to another. "I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Boys, Space

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• Oh, for heaven’s sake, Sirius, Dumbledore said no!” A bearlike black dog had appeared at Harry’s side as Harry clambered over the various trunks cluttering the hall to get to Mrs. Weasley. “Oh honestly,” said Mrs. Weasley despairingly. “Well, on your own head be it!” The great black dog gave a joyful bark and gamboled around them, snapping at pigeons, and chasing its own tail. Harry couldn’t help laughing. Sirius had been trapped inside for a very long time.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dog, Long, Laughing

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