P.A. Hall Quotes

The information is in the people, not in your head.

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments

When urbanity decays, civilization suffers and decays with it.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

Normal children often pass through stages of passionate cruelty, laziness, lying and thievery.

Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.

More than the time, it's about how you feel - you want to be strong throughout the race.

I want to run every race with a big heart.

Time is everything. Anything you want, anything you accomplish - pleasure, success, fortune - is measured in time.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

It's just seems life without music would be death.

You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

The future for us is the foreseeable future. The South Asian, however, feels that it is perfectly realistic to think of a 'long time' in terms of thousands of years.

Mere literary talent is common; what is rare is endurance, the continuing desire to work hard at writing.

Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

When teachers doubt your potential, show them how wrong they truly are.

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

Socialism in America will come through the ballot box.

Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

If you’re not in a good mood, the only thing you should make is a reservation.

The peculiar habit, when searching for a snack, of constantly returning to the refrigerator in hopes that something new will have materialized.

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.

We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

If I had the hand strength to sign autographs for everybody in Kansas City, I would... but its just impossible to get to everyone.

Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you are the only person in line.

The part of the envelope that tells a person where to place the stamp when they can't quite figure it out for themselves.

The only reason we make good role models is because you guys look up to athletes and we can influence you in positive ways. But the real role models should be your parents and teachers!

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

The Daryls House thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.

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

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

Human society cannot basically stop the destruction of the environment under capitalism. Socialism is the only structure that makes it possible.

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

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.