Top 100 Hadley's Quotes
#1. Yeah," Violet says from where she's stooped on the floor. "But those weren't family tears." Whitney rakes her fingers through Hadley's hair. "What were they, then." "Those were boy tears," Violet says with a smile.
Jennifer E. Smith
#2. Hadley's never been out of the country before, but she knows enough to know that London is enormous; it is, in her limited experience, a big enough place to lose someone entirely.
Jennifer E. Smith
#3. I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.
Albert Hadley
#4. Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.
Albert Hadley
#5. There's a star in the sky that refuses to stay put, and Hadley realizes it's actually a plane, that just last night, that star was them.
Jennifer E. Smith
#6. Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.
Albert Hadley
#7. And though I wanted to know more about Hadley, I also didn't want to hear him talk about her. But I felt like we had gone looking for this girl, and the only impressions I had of her were from Drew and Bronwyn.
Anonymous
#8. A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.
Albert Hadley
#10. That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.
Stephen Hadley
#11. Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.
Albert Hadley
#12. Good things happen to those who dress well.
Hadley Davis
#13. And that was true too, that was what the Culverts were like: crucified by their shyness and at the same time contemptuous of the world of ordinary people they couldn't talk to.
Tessa Hadley
#14. After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.
Albert Hadley
#17. Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.
Albert Hadley
#18. Hadley falls into step beside her. 'That's it? A good feeling?' 'That's it,' she says. 'I think it's meant to be.' 'I'm pretty sure it doesn't work that way, Hadley says with a frown, but Violet only smiles. 'What if it does?
Jennifer E. Smith
#19. The Hadley Street Dream is a tribute to making a vision come to life. My father built a compound on a dessert city block, he saw something in that space we couldn't see. It was years later the album was born right there on Hadley St. He built the studio I started recording the album at.
Solange Knowles
#20. The gracious thing to do was to accept the beauty of the opportunity if it was given
Tessa Hadley
#21. I rolled my shoulders. "Sure. Are we on the clock?"
"In a matter," Hadley stepped back as I stepped forward, "unless you want to build a snowman?"
Testing us both, I stepped into her personal space and bent down to her ear, "Doesn't have to be a snowman.
Victoria Escobar
#22. Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.
Albert Hadley
#23. The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what's in or what's out. This is not an easy job.
Albert Hadley
#25. The absence of consensus does not mean an absence of truth
Hadley Arkes
#26. Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment ...
Albert Hadley
#27. When Pauline Pfeiffer wrote Hadley Hemingway, "I've seen your husband E. Hemingway several times...", how could she not be blamed for breaking up the marriage. I'm not buying that Pauline was naive.
Ruth A. Hawkins
#28. There's Pam watching anxiously. She doesn't look anxious though.
Stephen Hadley
#29. Handy Hint! When your friend talks about having 'a sweep', do not then visualise Dick van Dyke in his cheeky chappy chimney sweeper outfit heading up into her uterus to do a rendition of 'Step in Time'. Laughter is the inappropriate response to your friend's news.
Hadley Freeman
#30. Deep downy upholstery is absolutely what I've always been about.
Albert Hadley
#31. We hope and we've made clear that the forces need to come out. It needs to be full and complete withdrawal. Our position is it needs to be done as soon as possible so that the elections can be free, fair and free of outside influence.
Stephen Hadley
#32. His eyes were a lot older than fifteen.
Persephone Hadley(,regarding Callum McGregor)
Malorie Blackman
#33. Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.
Naomi Wood
#34. Run from me, Grier Hadley, and I'll follow. I'll track you down and find you.
Sophie Jordan
#35. I'll tell you something: I'll always be broke. It's a tradition in the family. My grandfather was a bankrupt. My father was a pauper. My uncle was a miser: he went crazy because he couldn't find any money to mise over.
James Hadley Chase
#36. [Hadley] "I have a fear of mayo, so I've actually gotten pretty good at it over the years."
[Oliver] "You have a fear of mayo?"
She nods again."It's in my top three or four."
"What are the others?" he asks with a grin. "I mean what could possibly be worse than mayonnaise.
Jennifer E. Smith
#37. This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants,
Hadley Freeman
#38. But no escape route." "Ah," he says. "So you're looking for an escape route." Hadley nods. "Always.
Jennifer E. Smith
#39. Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner.
Hadley Freeman
#40. Her eyes travel down to where he's gripping the handle of her suitcase. "What're you doing?" she asks, blinking at him.
"You looked like you needed some help."
Hadley just stares at him.
"And this way it's perfectly legal," he adds with a grin.
Jennifer E. Smith
#41. Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.
Albert Hadley
#42. What use was her grown-up knowledge
acquired through such initiations, at such risk
in this world of infants, who had to be kept safe?
Tessa Hadley
#43. Hadley didn't know it was possible to miss someone who's only a few feet away, but there it is.
Jennifer E. Smith
#44. Someone once told her there's a formula for how long it takes to get over someone, that it's half as long as the time you've been together. Hadley has her doubts about how accurate this could possibly be, a calculation so simple for something as complicated as heartbreak.
Jennifer E. Smith
#45. I have committed another crime, Hadley,' he said. 'I have guessed the truth again.
John Dickson Carr
#46. Parents aren't always right about everything," Hadley says. "Sometimes it just takes a while to figure that out.
Jennifer E. Smith
#47. So many people arrange furniture in order to see what's going on outside. But why? The view isn't going anywhere.
Albert Hadley
#48. Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.
Albert Hadley
#49. Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair, a grounding in the principle of design, and self-discipline, that person has the potential of being an outstanding designer.
Albert Hadley
#50. I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.
Michael Ledeen
#51. In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.
Stephen Hadley
#52. If you value the world simply for what you can get out of it, be assured that the world will in turn estimate your value to it by what it can get out of you ... If you pursue truth, people will be true to you.
Arthur Twining Hadley
#53. I'm a little bit of a disaster, Hadley."
"Then, you're my favorite disaster, Jack.
Audrey Bell
#54. Logos are the bleating of the insecure, desperate for acceptance by the chronically shallow.
Hadley Freeman
#55. An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.
Albert Hadley
#56. Design is coming to grips with one's real lifestyle, one's real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one's wellbeing.
Albert Hadley
#57. It would be wrong to describe Fennel as courageous as it would be wrong to describe a leopard as courageous.It runs when it can but when cornered turns to be one of the dangerous and vicious of all jungle beasts.
The vulture is a patient bird.
James hadley chase.
James Hadley Chase
#58. But she wasn't in love, though she had been ready to be. Love sank down gently from where it had been swollen in expectation
she imagined a red balloon deflating to a foolish remnant. (In the cave, 171)
Tessa Hadley
#59. League is much, much more physical than Union, and that's before anyone starts breaking the rules.
Adrian Hadley
#60. I can't go back to being who I used to be!'
Hadley looked down at him sympathetically.
'None of us can, kid.' he said. 'That's the point. You get what you get. Life changes you. Time travel or no, you always have to build on what you live through.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#61. I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.
Stephen Hadley
#62. Isn't he beautiful? Hadley says longingly.
Yes, I think, but not in the way she obviously sees him. He's beautiful in the way the apple in the banned book my father read to me ages ago was beautiful to the princess.
Tempting but deadly.
Trisha Wolfe
#63. Design is about discipline and reality, not about fantasy beyond reality
Albert Hadley
#64. The one thing I never get involved with is selecting art or pictures for a client. This is a very personal thing. If the clients have pictures, I will hang them. When they do not own pictures I leave the walls blank.
Albert Hadley
#65. What are you doing a study on right now?"
"A study on the statistical probablity of love at first sight.
Jennifer E. Smith
#66. A decorator, no matter how talented, can't always get the desired results because sometimes there is resistance or maybe a lack of understanding on the part of the client. I think it is the decorator's job to work as a guide, to bring out the best qualities and the best attitudes.
Albert Hadley
#68. Hadley knows this isn't some Disney movie. Her parents aren't ever getting back together
Jennifer E. Smith
#69. Pakistan is both an ally in the war on terror, and in some sense, a battleground of the war on terror.
Stephen Hadley
#70. A lot of people worry about
the ' wear and tear ' on furnishings.
I feel it's more a matter
of people treating the things that surround them
with respect.
Albert Hadley
#71. When Ana saw pictures of England, she was always amazed at how green and lush everything appeared but now, experiencing it personally, she didn't feel the pictures did the country justice. After
RaeAnne Hadley
#72. I love how everyone thinks it's so quaint and childlike of me to expect a modicum of privacy around here.
-Remy "Thirteen" Hadley
House
#73. Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.
Stephen Hadley
#74. Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.
Albert Hadley
#75. I hate to think of you stuck here all day every day, doing nothing with that brilliant brain of yours."
"It never was brilliant. Anyway, who keeps these books to see who's used themselves wisely and who's wasted?
Tessa Hadley
#76. The designer must be able to see - make a concentrated effort to absorb the essence of the project. Seeing is a very difficult thing to do. Most people "look" at a lot of thing but never "see" anything. Looking is emotional; seeing is an intellectual process.
Albert Hadley
#77. She could drive down Hadley Road until she reached the right spot, then walk in. Would have to drive by the reservoir. She didn't drive that road anymore. But even if she could, she wasn't going to chase some imaginary dead man, or almost dead man, around the countryside.
Dana Marton
#78. We have developed communications systems to permit man on earth to talk with man on the moon. Yet mother often cannot talk with daughter, father to son, black to white, labour with management or democracy with communism
Hadley Read
#79. Let's remember that the revolution in Tahrir Square was not anti-American, it was not anti-Israeli, it was for democracy and freedom. That's a good thing.
Stephen Hadley
#80. What happened?" I asked. "What did you say?"
Roger put the key in the ignition and looked over at me. "I told her good-bye," he said. Then he started the car and put in in gear, and we headed out.
Morgan Matson
#81. You cannot make a modern apartment out of a traditional space.
Albert Hadley
#82. Nothing comes cheap, though the educated eye will always spot very nice things for the least money.
Albert Hadley
#83. The violence seems to be diminishing. They've stared into the abyss a bit. I think they've all concluded that further violence ... is not in their interests.
Stephen Hadley
#85. We're wedged tight into the accident of our moment in history.
Tessa Hadley
#86. Hadley Grayson is my lightning, my speed, my hearts, my candy.
I've never tried any of my own products and I'm glad I haven't.
It might have reduced my tolerance for happy.
Amanda Lance
#87. How glad I am that spring has come, and how it calms my mind when wearied with study to walk out in the green fields and beside the pleasant streams in which South Hadley is rich! ... The older I grow, the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it not so with you? (May 16, 1848 to Abiah Root)
Emily Dickinson
#88. Those early days in Paris were nearly forty years behind him and yet, in the final pages he writes of Hadley, I wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.
Paula McLain
#89. If you ever took an enema, you'd disappear off the face of this Earth without trace!
Lady Colin Campbell
#90. I have always believed that the more educated the clients are, the easier they are to work with. Clients with a knowledge of decorating, and an ability to articulate what they want from the finished project, make the designer's job easier.
Albert Hadley
#91. One cat just leads to another.
[Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]
Ernest Hemingway,
#92. The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.
Arthur Twining Hadley
#93. We've talked to the Europeans about it. It's clear if those negotiations fail, then we are agreed with the Europeans that the next step is to take the matter to the U.N. Security Council.
Stephen Hadley
#94. But now everything was lost: all the scattered effect of a real person, complicated beyond counting. (Post production, 197)
Tessa Hadley
#95. I'm really all right, she would think, carefully, lightly, as she pulled the key from the ignition, trying not to examine the sensation too closely or lose it with any sudden movement, as if it were a thin-filmed shiny bubble poised in her chest.
Tessa Hadley
#96. People believed him. Everyone believed him. And when everyone believes something about you, it might as well be true.
Audrey Bell
#97. Once they had been equal in their separate freedoms. They had set out to have children as lightly as if they were playing house, and now her necessarily domestic life bored him, and she was bound to it in her body and imagination. This imbalance was fated, built into their biology.
Tessa Hadley
#99. Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It;s well, it's magic.
Albert Hadley
#100. Make up is generally there to make you look better, not make you look like you're wearing make up.
Hadley Freeman
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