L V HALL Quotes

The drive to learn is as strong as the sexual drive. It begins earlier and lasts longer

Music was such a love of mine. It was my way of exploring life, my internal world. To be honest, I don't really know why or why not. It's just seems life without it would be death.

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

Sometimes I make myself laugh, but that's because I appreciate my sense of humor.

Great literature, if we read it well, opens us up to the world and makes us more sensitive to it, as if we acquired eyes that could see through things and ears that could hear smaller sounds.

Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.

I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

As an American, I'd like to apologize - for everything.

I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.

In Montana, a policeman will pull you over because he is lonely.

Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and useless.

FOOVIEW (foo' view) n. The ability of a dog to inflict guilt from any angle in the room while he watches his master eat.

Sometimes, all it takes is your smile (even if forced) & a domino effect of smiles happen ... infectious.

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

I have gone from one relationship to a marriage and stepchildren.

In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended with their left arms... ...the right side of the body was considered masculine and the left side feminine.

I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

Manhandling the open here spout on a milk carton so badly that one has to resort to using the illegal side.

Be positive. Keep grinding. Stay positive.

Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.

The combination of popcorn, soda, and melted chocolate which covers the floors of movie theaters.

Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.

Man's security comes from within himself.

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

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.

I'm the type of guy that I wear my heart on my sleeve. If I'm in a good or bad mood, then everybody knows it.

I'm not really good at hiding pain or taking something and transforming it into something good.

I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.

When I first got to Nashville, somebody said that [Kris Kristofferson and I] were the only two people who could describe Dolly Parton without using their hands.

I don't know how you keep the world record holder off your team.

A hotel mini bar allows you to see what a can of Pepsi will cost in twenty years.

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

People feel like they know me from the work I have done, but it's not me.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

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.

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

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

There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.

Life's not all beer and skittles

Age affects how people experience time.

Adolescence as the time when an individual ‘recapitulates’ the savage stage of the race’s past.

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

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