(263 quotes found)
“In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight”
Rabindranath Tagore
“The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, / The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly
“An epigrams is a gag that's played Carnegie Hall”
Oscar Levant
“Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief... Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louver! A bas l Originality, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol -- pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.”
William S. Burroughs
“Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.”
Conan O'Brien
“The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.”
Mike Royko
“Still must I hear? - shall hoarse Fitzgerald bawl / His creaking couplets in a tavern hall, / And I not sing?”
Lord Byron
“Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart”
Washington Irving
“Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
“It's something we've always wanted to do as a band, just a quick jaunt through VFW halls and venues like that. We'd announce the show the night before or maybe play under some secret names. And we thought it would be cool because we don't feel like any band has gotten to a certain size and still gone on a VFW hall tour. So we'd like to play a couple of dates on the East Coast. Watch out for it.”
Pete Wentz