Halls Quotes - Page 34

• Wow. I'm humbled and I'm honored. To be in the International Boxing Hall of Fame with so many of my friends and heroes is overwhelming.

  Ray Mancini

  Hero, Boxing, Wow

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• The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the little bird which flew through the Anglo-Saxon banqueting hall, in Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, gained the outer air and became the lark ascending in Vaughan Williams's orchestral setting. The unbroken chain is that of English music itself.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Past, Air, Bird

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• They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.

  Black Francis

  Giving, Credit, Toes

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• Whether you actually can or can't fight city hall is of little relevance. Either way, when the need arises, you must!

  Derek R. Audette

  Fighting, Cities, Needs

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• An enlightened teacher has personal power. Sitting and meditating with an enlightened teacher in a meditation hall or at a power spot can change you forever.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, Meditation

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• As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail. Like a generous host, she offers her brimming cups in endless variety, served in a grand hall, the sky its ceiling, the mountains its walls, decorated with glorious paintings and enlivened with bands of music ever playing.

  John Muir

  Wall, Sky, Mountain

  John Muir (1973). “The American Wilderness: In the Words of John Muir”

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• My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.

  Michael Strahan

  Sports, New York, Team

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• Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain; Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at the rock, and together again Accept my bed, or narrow or wide, And flee from folly on every side With a lover's pain to attain the plain, Far from the hills of Habersham, Far from the valleys of Hall.

  Sidney Lanier

  Running, Pain, Fall

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.24, University of Georgia Press

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• The egg it is the source of all To everyone's ancestral hall.

  Clarence Day

  Eggs, Ancestry, Birth

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• How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.

  Eugene Field

  Fall, Drinking, Boys

  Eugene Field (2012). “The Works of Eugene Field: Second Book of Verse”, p.31, Cosimo, Inc.

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• For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

  Philip James Bailey

  Ivy, Crumbling, Decay

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.277

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• I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Home, Soul, Facts

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.11

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• Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!

  Juvenal

  Hero, Men, Shining

  Juvenal (1806). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis”, p.259

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• The stifled hum of midnight, when traffic has lain down to rest, and the chariot wheels of Vanity, still rolling here and there through distant streets, are bearing her to halls roofed in and lighted to the due pitch for her; and only vice and misery, to prowl or to moan like night birds, are abroad.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Night, Vanity, Bird

  Thomas Carlyle (1869). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh : in Three Books”, p.21

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• But to fight something, you really have to try to understand its motivations—particularly when the something you’re fighting holds most of the cards, the deck is stacked against you, and the whole gambling hall is on fire and filled with thugs.

  Greg Bear

  Motivation, Fighting, Thug

  Greg Bear (2011). “Hull Zero Three”, p.89, Hachette UK

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• On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

  Katherine Paterson

  Running, War, Towns

  Katherine Paterson (2003). “Preacher's Boy”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When you're standing in front of an audience like this that is so enthusiastic and so much behind you, it is very hard to give a bad speech. Even a bad speech sounds good in a convention hall like this.

  Susan Estrich

  Giving, Sound, Speech

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• I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Regret, Too Late, All Alone

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• Courtesy which oft is found in lowly sheds, with smoky rafters, than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where it first was named.

  John Milton

  Firsts, Rafters, Courtesy

  John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.92

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• The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

  Clarence Day

  Eggs, Thieves, Legs

  CLARENCE DAY (1948). “THE BEST”

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• Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

  David Chase

  People, Cameras, Television

  "TELEVISION; The Real Boss Of 'The Sopranos'". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2004.

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• I'm a ballplayer. I know how hard the game is... and anybody that makes it in the Hall of Fame, I support. They become a member of our special fraternity.

  George Brett

  Games, Support, Special

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• It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance.

  Kevin Myers

  Funny, Humorous, Waiting

  "The Country the World Forgot - Again". www.telegraph.co.uk. April 21, 2002.

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• We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they put down that are pretty good players. You have Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell.

  Gale Sayers

  Player, People, Guy

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• One major should not get you into the Hall of Fame - maybe one major and 40 wins. I'm not gonna pick a guy with one major and 11 wins.

  Ray Floyd

  Winning, Guy, Fame

  "The show must go on" by Bob Harig, www.espn.com. May 6, 2013.

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