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Sarah Hall Quotes

Art history became an A-level option at my school the year I started sixth form. This happened because another student and I cajoled and bullied the head of the art department into arranging it with the examination board.

Sarah Hall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: english
Birth: 1974

Topics

History Art School Year Student

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Respect Great You Nothing Brilliant

Among the Internet's many gains for humanity, decreasing paranoia has not been one of them. Anything from that lump under your armpit to what's lurking in the sea - just type it into a search engine and watch your nerves explode.

John Niven

Sea Search Internet Humanity Watch

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.

Matt Dillon

Work Good Job You Sometimes Say

My parents are both music lovers; they are not musicians.

Sigrid

Music Parents Musicians Lovers Both

Leaving Def Jam was kind of a blessing in disguise because we can make whatever record we want.

Mike D

Blessing Want Kind Leaving Whatever

Before there were unions, there was no middle class.

Michael Moore

Class Unions Middle Before Were

Howard Stern gave me the best advice about Twitter and the N word. He said maybe onstage people get the intention behind the joke, but a tweet is 140 characters or less, and maybe that's why people overreact. I don't need to rustle any more feathers and lose any investors.

Lisa Lampanelli

Best People Me Advice Lose Feathers

My family called me a wiggle tail because I was a little skinny, wiry kid full of energy.

Diana Ross

Family Me Energy Kid Little Skinny

Law in Ukraine is not black and white; it is shades of gray.

Brandon Webb

Black And White Law Black White Gray

All the years I coached, we sent a card to every professor for each kid I had, and I was able to keep track on a daily basis who cut class or who was dropping a grade average. What I did was bring that kid in at 5:00 in the morning, and he would run the stairs from the bottom to the top until I told him to quit.

Bobby Knight

Daily Morning Stairs Quit Run Class

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.

William Nicholson

Compassion Seriously Class Middle

Football is what keeps me going, what makes me prosper, and what will keep me straight.

William Green

Football Me Will Keep Going Prosper