Halls Quotes - Page 37

• Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.

  Flann O'Brien

  Running, Passing By, People

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• Naptime,ʺ said Christian, leading her toward the bed. ʺI still need a shower.ʺ ʺSleep first. Shower later.ʺ He pulled back the covers. ʺIʹll sleep with you.ʺ ʺSleep or sleep?ʺ she asked dryly, sliding gratefully into bed. ʺReal sleep. You need it.ʺ He crawled in beside her, spooning against her and resting his face on her shoulder. ʺOf course, afterward, if you want to conduct any official Council business...ʺ ʺI swear, if you say ‘Little Dragomirs,ʹ you can sleep in the hall.

  Richelle Mead

  Christian, Real, Sleep

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• I've been to the Hall of Fame many times, in grade school and high school. I had field trips to the Hall of Fame and taking tours of it. I just never thought about that one day I possibly might be in it. I think it'd be great.

  Patrick Ewing

  School, Thinking, One Day

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• I’m an executioner, Leta, hence my Demon nickname. They send me in to take the heads off people and gods who’ve stepped over the line, usually only because someone has PMS. You want justice, Themis’s office is down the hall on the left. You want death and dismemberment, I’m your man…or rather god. (Deimos)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, Pms, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.115, Macmillan

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• I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.

  Chuck D

  Sports, Awards, Years

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• Within the confines of the lecture hall, no other virtue exists but plain intellectual integrity.

  Max Weber

  Integrity, Intellectual, Lectures

  Max Weber, John Dreijmanis (2008). “Max Weber's Complete Writings on Academic and Political Vocations”, p.52, Algora Publishing

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• She lights a match in the dark hall and moves it onto the wick of the candle. Light lifts itself onto her shoulders. She is on her knees. She puts her hands on her thighs and breathes in the smell of the sulphur. She imagines she slap breathes in light.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Moving, Dark, Smell

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.14, Vintage

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• All day long this man would toil thus, his whole being centered upon the purpose of making twenty-three instead of twenty-two and a half cents an hour; and then his product would be reckoned up by the census taker, and jubilant captains of industry would boast of it in their banquet halls, telling how our workers are nearly twice as efficient as those of any other country. If we are the greatest nation the sun ever shone upon, it would seem to be mainly because we have been able to goad our wage-earners to this pitch of frenzy.

  Upton Sinclair

  Country, Men, Two

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.227, First Avenue Editions

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• We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Kids, Phones, Library

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• At a music hall, I'll get upset if someone coughs or if someone's cellphone goes off.

  Joshua Bell

  Upset, Music Hall, Ifs

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• I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.

  Otis Blackwell

  Thinking, Years, Looks

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• When my reputation was at its height, classmates insulted me right to my face as I walked down the hall. When a teacher called on me, boys snickered and girls rolled their eyes. My body and face burned. I felt mortified. I contemplated suicide.

  Leora Tanenbaum

  Girl, Suicide, Teacher

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• Scott Hall is a great wrestler, a better friend, but more than anything a very caring human being. Scott never passed a homeless person or someone in need without opening his wallet. This is a guy that has the first two nickels he ever made.

  Kevin Nash

  Caring, Two, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm not sure of what the potential power of the Web is, but it is something that is here to stay, so it needs to be dealt with...It's kinda cool, though, for the fans ... because it makes what is basically a huge worldwide venue into an intimate one-on-one. I don't know of many concert halls that can do that.

  Rod Stewart

  Needs, Fans, Intimate

  "Entertainers use Web to reach audiences in new ways" by ames Ledbetter, www.cnn.com. March 2, 1999.

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• The Secretary, working in the Dismal Swamp betimes next morning, was informed that a youth waited in the hall who gave the name of Sloppy. The footman who communicated this intelligence made a decent pause before uttering the name, to express that it was forced on his reluctance by the youth in question, and that if the youth had had the good sense and good taste to inherit some other name it would have spared the feelings of him the bearer.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Morning, Humorous

  Charles Dickens (1865). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.246

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• While travelling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them.

  Gene Spafford

  Christian, Religious, Florida

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• I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Ministry, Berlin, Lectures

  Viktor E Frankl (2012). “The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy”, p.12, Souvenir Press

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• I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

  Gary Burton

  Guitar, Style, Fans

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• Lazy Line Painter Jane - it was an insane way to make a record! It was just in a church hall, no separate rooms for instruments, and a crappy digital desk, and I think it's fantastic. I think it's one of the best records we ever made. But if you actually said that to a professional recording engineer or producer they'd laugh at you.

  Stevie Jackson

  Thinking, Laughing, Lazy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Politics, Lectures, Finance

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2476, Delphi Classics

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• What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Russia, Doors, People

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• Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. ...This is your victory.

  Barack Obama

  Government, Victory, Backyards

  President-Elect Victory Speech, delivered 4 November 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, Illinois

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• How do I get to Carnegie Hall?

  Mischa Elman

  Inspirational, Music, Carnegie

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• Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fear, Heart, Care

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.844, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.

  Jack Markell

  Opportunity, Two, People

  "POLITICO interview: Gov. Jack Markell". Interview with Michael Falcone, www.politico.com. October 29, 2009.

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