D. P . Hall Quotes

I don't know what my life needs but I know I need some balance.

I lost my mother two years ago to cancer. But the greatest gift she gave to me was showing me how to be a wonderful and loving mom to my two sons, even now that they are grown men.

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

My favorite teams are the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets.

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.

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

A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.

I don't like to trash talk... I don't know how to do that, it's not me. In the martial arts world that I was brought up it was all about respect.

It's not just that I'm stupid; it's that I'm just smart enough to know how stupid I am. I wish I weren't so stupid. Or that I were stupider.

The job of an editor in a publishing house is the dullest, hardest, most exciting, exasperating and rewarding of perhaps any job in the world.

It's almost two societies, the living and the dead, and you live with them both.

I look at it this way: I got to do better than yesterday.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

I'm single. I'm independent. And I'm dating. I think if you're honest that you're dating, there's nothing wrong with that.

Modern man was not meant to do his best work before forty but is by nature, and is becoming more so, an afternoon and evening worker.

There is a big difference between manslaughter and first-degree murder.

Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse.

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

. . . how man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood . . . he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?

As time passes, I feel more and more a sense of acting being a fundamental part of who I am.

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.

I have such a strong belief in women's ability to sustain each other.

I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.

She gave her heart to Jethro and her body to the whole wide world.

I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

Photography is a very important part of my life.

Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

Especially in quail hunting, where the hunter is so focused on the bird that it makes everything else blurry. The bottom line in terms of bird hunting is what we call shooting zones.

I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.

There are people who do De Niro and Walken impersonations.

Where there are two Phd's in a developing country, one is head of state and the other is in exile.

My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.

No one likes rain but rain brings us pleasure for once pleasure's gone we learn what to treasure.

Scary Movie' is very broad, and the reality is extreme.

I think sometimes you can study guys and build them into giants that they are not.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

A floor length backless black sequined dress would be my dream dress. As for my dream date - that would have to be a young Marlon Brando!

Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.

The past lies beneath the surface, intransigent truth. Remembered or not, what we say and do remains, always.

There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.

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

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.