D. P . Hall Quotes

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?

It is expensive to give plays subtitles, especially for a short run, so most new dramas rarely cross the transcontinental bridge.

Opposites are attracted when each one is anxious about its own character.

To teach is to show. You can't teach what you don't know. You can't guide where you don't go. And you can't grow what you don't sow.

Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.

I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.

Americans think that if you're popular, there must be something wrong with you.

As I got older, my voice got better.

Being at college, I think that's the time when you really start searching for things outside yourself.

I have to say I have never been comfortable with somebody else telling me what to do - in any way.

As a singer, I float around. I'm kind of scatty, bouncing around a lot. I try to adapt to what's going on around me in the song and the arrangement.

What I do isn't black music, it's just my music.

Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.

I have an English family and I've lived in England for years.

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that.

I have seldom seen much ostentation and much learning met together. The sun, rising and declining, makes long shadows; at mid day, when he is highest, none at all.

Thorkell Mylrea had waited long for a dead man's shoes, but he was wearing them at length.

One cannot help being old, but one can resist being aged.

I don't want to disrespect hip-hop by being something I'm not. I'm Pooch Hall. My strength is in front the camera and holding dialogue.

It’s this perspective of us as humans to look at our world through the lens of ‘normal’ [that] is one of the forces that stops us developing real solutions.

I like the odd glass of wine, a coffee and a cigarette. As you get older you can't see the wrinkles

Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.

It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.

The proud man hath no God; the envious man hath no neighbor; the angry man hath not himself.

You never get rid of something that has a positive foundation.

I feel that true freedom lies within, where I shall never find it.

Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.

If you would have a boy to despise his mother, let her keep him at home, and spend her life in petting him up, and slaving to indulge his follies and caprices.

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

There is perfect love in Heaven!

Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer seems like an even better idea after you've had some beer.

You’ve been wondering lately when the moment is that somebody is truly lost to you.

When a lady condescends to apologise, there is no keeping one’s anger.

You learn nothing about men by snubbing them and crushing their pride. You must ask them what it is they can do in this world, that they alone can do.

Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.

I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.

It's just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

Life gets so ridiculous, you just have to brush it off like sand and laugh. I think the laughter is good medicine for crap-itis.

The press was all over to get a picture of me. It got to the point where they were all over my house, following me to work... Then Tom Brokaw and everybody else was doing stories, 'A star is born.'

I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.

The big thing is hydrating the day before the race. I will have 20 ounces of water right when I get up in the morning the day before, and I'll drink throughout the day.

Sometimes, unfortunately, hatred is more powerful than progress.

Even when life appears to be going in circles the view is always changing if you are paying attention.

We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies further on.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

Those that dare lose a day, ate dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it, are desperate.

I race kind of sparingly.