D. P . Hall Quotes

Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.

The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.

I had only two jobs my entire life Taco Bell for six months and Kroger's Food store for one day!

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

Effective thinking consists of being able to arrive at the truth; truth being defined as that which exists.

I had to jump out of a plane! The shoot was for an editorial for a magazine; and it called for skydiving.

If God wanted us high, He would have given us wings.

As climbers, we need to sacrifice our comfort, our safety, and arguably our sanity, as a tithe to the mountain...We need the mountains but the mountains do not need us.

These days I love to take in the sunset because every time I do so I remember how lucky I am to be alive. That's a great relationship to have with the setting sun.

I've done bad things with relish, and good things with pickles.

It is not the bee's touching on the flowers that gathers the honey, but her abiding for a time upon them, and drawing out the sweet.

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

Don't just exist, be a part of life.

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

Since I got a divorce, I have been dating younger guys. But it's just because they're the ones that ask me out.

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

I miss New York terribly. There is no place like the city. I miss people-watching. I miss the nightlife. I miss the food. There are so many options in New York City.

Ever since I was a young kid, I was always hungry for something. It was this thing inside me that no matter what I did, I couldn't satisfy it.

I think it's huge in a believer's life to have music that's pouring into their new life and not dragging them back into their old life.

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

Marriage, children-you never expect it to end in tragedy. Unless you're me.

Baseball, because of its continuity over the space of America and the time of America, is a place where memory gathers.

But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

Nobody's going to sell 10 million records by not working hard.

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.

If you work hard and you're good, you can build something for yourself.

in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.

Perfection is the child of time.

To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it

My message is, if you need help, ask for it.

Ignisecond, n.: The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!"

The metallic silver coating found on fast-food game cards.

I'm just excited about life. Life is really good right now with my family and friends, and being able to work with people I respect.

Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?

To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.

What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.