Hall Quotes

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall. (J. M. Barrie)
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. View quote
Washington Irving
There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall. View quote
Oscar Levant
Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them. View quote
David Ogden Stiers
Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall. View quote
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. View quote
Isaac Stern
I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work. View quote
Otis Blackwell
All these relics gave... Thornfield Hall the aspect of a home of the past: a shrine to memory. I liked the hush, the gloom, the quaintness of these retreats in the day; but I by no means coveted a night's repose on one of those wide and heavy beds: shut in, some of them, with doors of oak; shaded, others, with wrought old-English hangings crusted with thick work, portraying effigies of strange flowers, and stranger birds, and strangest human beings, - all which would have looked strange, indeed, by the pallid gleam of moonlight. (Charlotte Brontë)
You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name. View quote
Jack Kerouac
The way to go to the circus, however, is with someone who has seen perhaps one theatrical performance before in his life and that in the High School hall. ... The scales of sophistication are struck from your eyes and you see in the circus a gathering of men and women who are able to do things as a matter of course which you couldn't do if your life depended on it. View quote
Robert Benchley
The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen. View quote
Claude Bernard
My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in personal strength; that you can fight City Hall and win; that any action is better than no action, even if it's the wrong action; that you never reach glory or self-fulfillment unless you're willing to risk everything, dare anything, put yourself dead on the line every time; and that once one becomes strong or rich or potent or powerful it is the responsibility of the strong to help the weak become strong. View quote
Harlan Ellison
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Twenty-eight years ago, I created my first game on an Apple II in my bedroom closet at a time when the interactive entertainment industry was taking its first baby steps. Today the games business has grown to a multi-billion dollar industry and we are just at the tip of the iceberg. I'm thrilled to have been a part of this successful journey and I'm extremely honored by the Academy's Hall of Fame induction. View quote
Richard Garriott
After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall. View quote
David Lange
The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon; and it is this of which the poet sings. View quote
Yasunari Kawabata
Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the "clear heart" of the priest, seated in the meditation hall in the darkness before the dawn, becomes for the dawn moon its own light. View quote
Yasunari Kawabata
The Christian who will sit with sealed lips when his Master is assailed, when religion is attacked, when wickedness is broached and defended, when truth is denounced, is a denier of his Lord, as guilty as Simon Peter in Pilate's hall. (Theodore L. Cuyler)
Such is the custom of Branksome Hall. View quote
Walter Scott
And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall. View quote
Walter Scott
'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. View quote
Hilary Mantel
"Come on," I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear. View quote
Charlaine Harris