Halls Quotes - Page 8

• And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dwarves, Explanation, Hung

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Men, Boredom, Quality

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• Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.

  Harold C. Schonberg

  Music, Night, Lasts

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• But, contrary to the lady's prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned between theory and applications in the physical sciences. Since World War II the discoveries that have changed the world are not made so much in lofty halls of theoretical physics as in the less-noticed labs of engineering and experimental physics. The roles of pure and applied science have been reversed; they are no longer what they were in the golden age of physics, in the age of Einstein, Schrödinger, Fermi and Dirac.

  Nicholas Metropolis

  War, Science, Engineering

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• Road racing is rock 'n roll; track is Carnegie Hall.

  Marty Liquori

  Running, Rocks, Track

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• Well, here's all you need to know. Classes, nothing before 11. Beer, its your best friend, you drink a lot of it. Women, you're a freshman, so its pretty much out of the question. Will you have a car? ... Someone on your hall will, find them and make friends with them on the first day.

  Jeremy Piven

  Beer, Class, Car

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• I thought as I rode in the cold pleasant light of Sunday morning how silent & passive nature offers, every morn, her wealth to man; she is immensely rich, he is welcome to her entire goods, which he speaks no word, only leaves over doors ajar, hall, store room, & cellar. He may do as he will: if he takes her hint & uses her goods, she speaks no word; if he blunders & starves, she says nothing.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Morning, Sunday

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• Go, little book, and wish to all
  Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall,
  A bin of wine, a spice of wit,
  A house with lawns enclosing it,
  A living river by the door,
  A nightingale in the sycamore!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Flower, Book, Wine

  'Underwoods' (1887) 'Envoy'.

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• Inductee in the Vintner's Hall of Fame

  Robert Mondavi

  Wine, Fame, Hall Of Fame

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• I'm going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out. Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government - I'd give it all up for one erection.

  Groucho Marx

  Sex, Awards, Government

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• And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

  Wilfred Owen

  Smile, Sullen, Hell

  1918 'Strange Meeting', collected in Poems (published1920).

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• Alex grinned and then walked past him, murmuring, "I applaud you for your courage." "Courage?" he asked with confusion. "Hmm." She headed for the door to the hall, swinging her purse gaily as she went. "Many men find it difficult to come out of the closet.

  Lynsay Sands

  Past, Men, Doors

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• A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.

  Stephen Fry

  Real, Library, Rooms

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• As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into his throne. Kaye tried to smile at him, but he was not looking at her. He was staring out across the brugh with eyes the color of falling ash. Corny had not stopped laughing.

  Holly Black

  Kings, Fall, Eye

  Holly Black (2008). “Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

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• Friday was an important day for Harry and Ron. They finally managed to find their way down to the Great Hall without getting lost once.

  J. K. Rowling

  Friday, Important, Getting Lost

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• At one point in my career, while still hosting 'The Arsenio Hall Show,' I was told by my doctor that it might not be physically possible for me to have children.

  Arsenio Hall

  Children, Doctors, Careers

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• Don’t I have a choice in this?” But when she looks behind her, the answer is clear. There are two guards waiting to make sure that she has no choice at all. And as they lead her away, she thinks of Mr. Durkin. With a bitter laugh, Risa realizes that he may get his wish after all. Someday he may see her hands playing in Carnegie Hall. Unfortunately, the rest of Risa won’t be there.

  Neal Shusterman

  Thinking, Hands, Two

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• The older woman waiting for admittance looked at me, then over her shoulder at Patch, who was vanishing down the hall. “Honey,” she told me, “he looks slippery as soap.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Waiting, Looks, Vanishing

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.183, Simon and Schuster

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• Monsters are getting more uppity, too (...) I heard where this guy, he killed this monster in this lake, no problem, stuck its arm up over the door (...) and you know what? Its mum come and complained. Its actual mum come right down to the hall next day and complained. Actually complained. That's the respect you get.

  Terry Pratchett

  Lakes, Doors, Next Day

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• I got everything I wanted. When I was young in Kansas City, I knew nothing about Frank Sinatra, Billy Eckstine, Ella Fitzgerald, of all those concert halls, of all those countries. I did not know what it was like to direct a band... All I wanted was to be big, to be in show-business, and to travel...and that's what I've been doing all my life.

  Count Basie

  Country, Cities, Kansas City

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• Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains of the moon. Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Stars, Flower, Eye

  J. R. R. Tolkien, “Roads Go Ever On”

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• John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which has stayed with me through my life. Geography is a living, breathing subject, constantly adapting itself to change. It is dynamic and relevant. For me geography is a great adventure with a purpose.

  Michael Palin

  Teacher, School, Adventure

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• Drs. Pinkett and Robinson choose to BE the message that they bring! They don't just enumerate the problems but offer solid solutions for navigating pathways to business ownership, and the halls and boardrooms of previously 'all white' corporate America. Black Faces in White Places is a necessary tool for anyone trying to make their own magic happen.

  Malik Yoba

  White, America, Black

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• When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Crazy, Smell, Hollywood

  Marilyn Monroe (2006). “My Story”, p.87, Taylor Trade Publishing

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• Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

  Josh Groban

  Home, Race, Piano

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