Halls Quotes - Page 5

• Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

  Daisy Ashford

  Prayer, Whiskey, Pious

  'The Young Visiters' (1919) ch. 3

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• A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

  Vince Lombardi

  Football, Motivational Sports, School

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• Initially we performed in halls with capacities of 1,000.

  Neville Marriner

  Capacity

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• When you hear a large symphony orchestra. for instance, in a concert hall, there's a big, sweeping sound that just doesn't get on to a record.

  Teddy Wilson

  Symphony, Orchestra, Sound

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• I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

  Nancy Sinatra

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Fame

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

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• I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.

  Phil Rizzuto

  Want, Fame, Ifs

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• I don't think the only place to fight for freedom is in the halls of Congress.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Fighting, Thinking, Congress

  "Wyoming's Senator Wallop Won't Run in '94", www.nytimes.com. 1993.

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• I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.

  David Ogden Stiers

  People, Ears, Might

  Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. June 21, 2002.

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• Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.

  Conan O'Brien

  Rocks, Years, Rock And Roll

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• Thus, it comes to pass, that a certain room in a certain old hall, where a certain bad lord, baronet, knight, or gentleman, shot himself, has certain planks in the floor from which the blood will not be taken out. You may scrape and scrape, as the present owner has done, or plane and plane, as his father did, or scrub and scrub, as his grandfather did, or burn and burn with strong acids, as his great-grandfather did, but, there the blood will still be - no redder and no paler - no more and no less - always just the same.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Father, Taken

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Some Christmas Stories”, p.14, Xist Publishing

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• Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.

  Banksy

  Art, Other Cultures, People

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

  Drew Carey

  Cities, House, Political

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• Try walking the halls of Congress. It's Abercrombie & Fitch meets the Hair Club for Men. Lots of really photogenic young people kissing up to lots of insufferable blowhards. Separated by one or two generations, most of these players have only one real thing in common: They have never been weaned from the public teat. The closest they've ever come to meeting a payroll is when they come together to spend everyone else's payroll taxes.

  Michelle Malkin

  Real, Kissing, Player

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• The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon; and it is this of which the poet sings.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Philosophy, Heart, Winter

  "Japan, the Beautiful and Myself". Yasunari Kawabata's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 12, 1968.

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• The great object was to get rid of Christianity, and to convert our churches into halls of science. The plan was not to make open attacks on religion, although we might the clergy and bring them into contempt where we could: but to establish a system of state - we said national - schools, from which all religion was to be excluded.

  Orestes Brownson

  Christian, Religious, School

  Orestes Augustus Brownson (1833). “An Address on Intemperance: Delivered in Walpole, N.H. February 26, 1833”

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• Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking about a story — or a poem, or a piece of sculpture, or a new concert hall — is, Is it dead or alive?

  Mavis Gallant

  Art, Life And Death, Sculpture

  "Mavis Gallant obituary" by Christopher Hawtree, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2014.

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• Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Art, Museums

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• I use a different style if I'm speaking to a big crowd; I can gin up folks pretty well. But when I'm in these town hall settings, my job is not to throw them a lot of red meat. I want to give them a sense of my thought process.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Giving, Style

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• It is a great honor to be inducted into the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame. When you honor me with this distinction, you really honor the players who put me there. All of the honors I receive became a reality only through the contributions of my players. In addition to myself, you also honor my family and the Dodger organization. I accept this recognition with pride and gratitude.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Gratitude, Pride, Player

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• All these guys are just like me. They were a rookie at one time in their life. They treat me like I'm one of the guys. I look at Greg Maddux and saw him sitting over there and said, 'Man, that's Greg Maddux. That guy is going to be in the Hall of Fame.' Now I sit there and talk to him like a teammate. It's a reality check, and it's a great feeling at the same time.

  Brian Dopirak

  Reality, Men, Guy

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• The human mind is not, as philosophers would have you think, a debating hall, but a picture gallery.

  Douglas Harding

  Thinking, Mind, Philosopher

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• I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing.

  Eric Idle

  Soccer, Baseball, Nice

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• The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding rings who lurk in the halls of power.

  Michelle Malkin

  Men, Rags, Hairspray

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• All I've got on my iPod is every single Queen song and every single Judas Priest song. Queen were an incredible heavy metal band. I saw them on their first ever tour, at Birmingham Town Hall. They just blew me away.

  Rob Halford

  Song, Queens, Ipods

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• And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls
  To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Betrayal, Music Hall, Mock

  'Blighters' (1917)

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