D. P . Hall Quotes

When you is precious to God, you become important to Satan.

I woke up!" he replied, eye twinkling in his haggard face, "and that's reason enough to be happy!

One day, of course, no one will remember what I remember.

I remember everything about you, Miss Macy. Every moment between us—the good and the bad.” He chuckled dryly. “Though I prefer to linger on more recent pleasant moments.

Behind my eyelids, I saw him dancing in spirals of coloured light, emerald, blue, and brilliant purple, enfolding him like the wings of an electric angel.

You don't learn about war by sitting in libraries. Though if people spent more time in libraries, maybe there would be fewer wars.

Every day is a little life ... live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal those that dare misspend it are desperate.

I think if I weren't so beautiful maybe I'd have more character.

The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the great Jehovah yields.

Prayer serves as an edge and border to preserve the web of life from unraveling.

I've been polite and I've always shown up. Somebody asked me if I had any advice for young people entering the business. I said: "Yeah show up."

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

... because one kingdom goes to war with another, it does not mean all citizens of that kingdom agree with it. It is not always they have a choice.

Time vanquishes even the strongest of strongholds.

Brains will always conquer brawn, in the end. The soldiers can flex their muscles all they want, but the well-thought-out tactics of the generals are what win the war.

I’ll tell you a piece of news--I hope you have not heard it before: for good, bad, or indifferent, one always likes to be the first to tell.

Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you.

I've got a sense of humor. I'm a funny guy.

I guess I've always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We'd go to the rodeo every Saturday and Sunday. The bull riders were the cool guys.

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.

If I got too famous, I'd just quit acting, but I think it's highly unlikely I'm going to get really famous.

Even famous poets such as Marianne Moore and William Carlos Williams were rarely asked to read their poems.

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality.

I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

We used to go to Studio 54 - an amazing place.

Why would anyone lie? The truth is always more colorful.

Not everything in old age is grim. I haven't walked through an airport for years, and wheelchairs are the way to travel.

One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party.

My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich.

Divorce is not the end of the world. It's worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That's a worse example for the children.

Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

That's the beauty of YouTube. You can take whatever you want and create a video from your home and put it up, and you're just sharing it with your friends.

If you imagine yourself to be someone who is very uncomfortable in their own skin, then it does funny things to your voice.

So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.

I love the solitary, romantic idea of writing.

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

As I grew older - collapsing into my seventies, glimpsing ahead the cliffs of the eighties, colliding into eighty-five - poetry abandoned me.

After a couple of years of public high school, I went to Exeter - an insane conglomeration of adolescent males in the wilderness, all of whom claimed to hate poetry.

I've always felt that poetry was particularly erotic, more than prose was... I say that you read poems not with your eyes and not with your ears, but with your mouth. You taste it.

For better or worse, poetry is my life.

Sound had always been my portal to poetry, but in the beginning, sound was imagined through the eye.

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.