D. P . Hall Quotes

I don't really study the guys that I'm racing against.

I couldn't be more excited to return to the ING New York City Marathon.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

I'll tell you this, lad: A tattoo says more of a fellow looking at it than it can do of the man who's got it on his back.

The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.

You didn’t understand what he was saying, until he kissed you. It was a kiss of such complicity, of such uncomplicated sympathy, that you felt for the first time not alone in your suffering.

All innocent mechanisms are muddied up with experience. Children become less and less translucent. Layers of guile and suspicion grow. It's the law of paternal disenchantments.

We only see starlight because all the stars are bleeding.

Texas has no system in place, and what you have is chaos.

The people who make you cry are the people who aren't worth crying over.

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please

A song is a poem set to music.

It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

It used to be that youd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.

Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.

I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.

I was quite a reader before I became a writer.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

The enticing allure of Nashville is that there is always something new coming down the pike. Put this record on and you’ll hear footsteps.

Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit.

People think because you're private, you have something you don't want them to know.

Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot.

You know how you're always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it's real difficult in life

A month in and it seemed to CY that he was an explorer summiting the foothill of an a bizarre and primitive island.

Like a dog defeated in a frenzied circle by its own tail and slowing and realizing then that the tail it was after all along was already its possession

The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.

To love a man enough to help him, you have to forfeit the warm, self-righteous glow that comes from judging.

But this room looked like it had been decorated by the unholy lovechild of Barbie and Strawberry Shortcake.

When someone tells you somebody’s been murdered, laughing is probably not the best response. You know, for future reference.But laughing is exactly what I did.

But now, here she was, very wishful to pray, while not knowing how to explain her dilemma: ‘I’m terribly unhappy, dear, unprobable God—’ would not be a very propitious beginning.

Feel not obliged to make good use of every ripe fruit on the vine.

Gently guide the tender vine else it become wild, tangled and impossible.

a hero is just somebody who does the right thing when it would be far, far easier to do nothing.”-Cedric Diggory-

True love is finding your soulmate in your best friend

She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.

What comes from the heart will go to the heart

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted"-Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

But where hope rises, fear must lurk behind.

Odd, isn’t it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day…

When Learning to "LOVE YOURSELF", you attract two types of energies: Lovers & Haters. Lovers should take you higher, haters should inspire. Both should give you fire to illuminate your environment.

To fully encapsulate my creativity, I read to inhale, write to exhale. The whole process helps me breathe story.

It is our fate to give ourselves most lavishlyto those who'd rather not be burdened with the gift

As Henry Moore carvedor modelled his sculpture every day, he strove to surpass Donatello4. and failed, but woke the next morningelated for another try.

Compromise is the assassin of fellowship with God.

My writing is how I maintain.

Writing is the new reading

Cultivate plants which attract lovely company.

Actually, I'm an overnight success. But it took twenty years.