Top 100 Hartley Quotes
#1. The confirmation for both jobs - 'AMC' and 'Smallville' - came through on the same day, so there was a lot of wine flowing in the Hartley house that night!
Lindsay Hartley
#2. That the government's power under the Taft-Hartley Act to stop a strike by injunction so clearly strengthens the hand of the employer-even though it is used only when a strike threatens
the national health, welfare, or safety-is a grave blemish and explains much of union resistance to the Act.
Peter Drucker
#3. Caw! Caw, Hartley, caw!"
Chase narrowed his eyes again.
"Sam?"
I nodded. Then crossed to the window again and called down to Sam. "You can quit squawking. He caught me.
Gemma Halliday
#4. When I was coming up with the Hal Hartley films, I was cast as a no one. I had no name visibility. I was working at a downtown post-performance-art, avant garde theater company and doing a couple things on television. But I was a total unknown.
Martin Donovan
#5. R. V. L. Hartley, the inventor of the Hartley oscillator, was thinking philosophically about the transmission of information at about this time, and he summarized his reflections in a paper, "Transmission of Information," which he published in 1928.
John Robinson Pierce
#6. From the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#7. I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.
Jim Coleman
#8. Any father can relate to feeling like a superhero when you put a Band-Aid on your kid.
Justin Hartley
#9. Don't allow him/her to have supremacy over you. People like them come and go, so never concede on finding the ideal soul-mate.
Naeem Hartley
#10. There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.
Lindsay Hartley
#11. It's all about story and character with me, and I don't care if the job is on daytime or prime time or the web. Hey, give me a good character and someone to listen, and I'll do my acting on a street corner.
Justin Hartley
#12. The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world
it is like operetta in prose
all so flowery and heavenlike.
Marsden Hartley
#13. It's better to write about things you feel than about things you know about.
L.P. Hartley
#14. Oh, where is man That mortal god, that hath no mortal kin Or like on earth? Shall Nature's orator The interpreter of all her mystic strains Shall he be mute in Nature's jubilee?
Hartley Coleridge
#15. The beauty of coaching is that you are working with human beings. I feel very comfortable with my staff that we can make a difference, that we can make a difference on the ice.
Bob Hartley
#16. Thou breeze, That mak'st an organ of the mighty sea, Obedient to thy wilful phantasies, Provoke him not to scorn; but soft and low, As pious maid awakes her aged sire, On tiptoe stealing, whisper in his ear The tidings of the young god's victory.
Hartley Coleridge
#18. My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.
Marsden Hartley
#19. I know, who doesn't want to play a superhero, right? And everyone wants to play Superman or Batman. Everyone wants to play a superhero.
Justin Hartley
#20. there is no such thing as poverty; only the absence of wealth (Jacobs, 1969; and see Piachaud, 2002
Hartley Dean
#21. What kind of love demands the life of another? A child at that?"
"Danish love, my sweet. Can't you smell it?
A.J. Hartley
#22. Readers tend to devour short stories on a newssheet, but would be disinclined to read them in collections
L.P. Hartley
#23. Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery.
Hartley Coleridge
#24. A few good compliments produce a wealth of good and often financial benefits.
Mariette Hartley
#25. My father was, I suppose, a crank. He had a fine, precise mind, which ignored what it was not interested in.
L.P. Hartley
#26. I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.
Marsden Hartley
#27. To see things as they really were
what an empoverishment!
L.P. Hartley
#28. Be not afraid to pray
to pray is right.
Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray,
Though hope be weak or sick with long delay;
Pray in the darkness, if there be no light.
Hartley Coleridge
#29. You're a kid,' said Alexandra. 'There is no just about it. Only adults say just a kid and what the heck do they know about anything? Have you looked at their world lately?
A.J. Hartley
#30. Grown-ups didn't seem to realize that for me, as for most other schoolboys, it was easier to keep silent than to speak. I was a natural oyster.
L.P. Hartley
#31. A hockey team is like a puzzle. Every piece is vital.
Bob Hartley
#32. You don't talk dirty to make him hot. You "talk dirty" to communicate what you need. And most guys, if you go, "Yeah, yeah, just like that, a little more to the left," they'll do it.
Nina Hartley
#33. I wish that we could tumble them in the dryer for 30 minutes and get them to shrink, but that won't happen.
Bob Hartley
#35. If you've got comic book fans and soap fans and country fans, I think you've hit the whole world. What else is there?
Lindsay Hartley
#36. The beauty of the picture is an abiding concrete of the painter's vision.
Hartley Coleridge
#37. Not Adam and Eve, after eating the apple, could have been more upset than I was.
L.P. Hartley
#38. The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.
Marsden Hartley
#39. The really witty man does not shower forth his wit so indiscriminately;
Cecil B. Hartley
#40. Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder.
Hartley Coleridge
#41. One of the things I wanted to do was direct. There've been a couple of times that a director will walk up and say something to me, and all it does is make me mad. Inside I'll go, 'Well, that wasn't helpful at all.'
Justin Hartley
#42. Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.
Hartley William Shawcross
#43. It is better to be prepared for what could happen then to let happen what you are not prepared for.
Dawn Hartley
#44. It is ill-bred to put on an air of weariness during a long speech from another person, and quite as rude to look at a watch, read a letter, flirt the leaves of a book, or in any other action show that you are tired of the speaker or his subject. In
Cecil B. Hartley
#46. Holy effing crap, that sucks!"
I turned to her. "Effing?"
Sam shrugged. "What?"
"We're censoring now?"
"Kyle says I have a mouth like a trucker.
Gemma Halliday
#47. If personality expresses itself by acts of discrimination, and discrimination, besides being taboo, has no material to work on, what becomes of personality? It shrinks, it atrophies, it dies.
L.P. Hartley
#48. And so the Scots grew restless, moaning all the time as only they could.
A.J. Hartley
#49. I don't have a gardener, because I enjoy pulling weeds. It's hard to explain, but there is something fulfilling about pulling out a weed and knowing that you got all the roots.
Justin Hartley
#50. I have always felt very fortunate to be have good people. You know, talent will carry you for so far but the values of the people around that should make the difference.
Bob Hartley
#52. You have ripped my fucking heart out, Neva and what's worse is that I love you far too fucking much to hate you for it.
Sofie Hartley
#53. There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.
Hartley William Shawcross
#54. I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.'
Lindsay Hartley
#55. Sometimes you have to go outside your boundaries. You have to jump over that fence, but I always felt very comfortable (in my jobs) because I worked with some good people.
Bob Hartley
#57. I think maybe written films are better than real films. You can see them in your head and yet everything is exactly as you want it to be.
Hal Hartley
#58. You know my biggest fear is this: That all my hard work. All my good intentions. All my studying. Have been nothing more than a building of a wall between me and life.
Hal Hartley
#59. To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.
Gregory Hartley
#60. If you sit and feel sorry for yourself, you're wasting your time. You should be in acting class, instead of feeling sorry for yourself. You should be working.
Justin Hartley
#61. I never look at salaries. I have no aspirations of being a general manager or anything like that, I want to coach. For me there is no dollar signs on the towels, no dollar signs on their jerseys, I will make the decisions based on who is going to make us win. For me, that is my only priority.
Bob Hartley
#62. I was devastated when 'Days' let me go and couldn't help but feel it was my fault. What did I do wrong? What happened? It sucks. You always think it's your fault.
Lindsay Hartley
#63. But, hey, remember: If things don't work out in your life, you can always just turn to drugs or join the Army.
Jason Christopher Hartley
#64. Remember, Matt, it's an exercise. That's called autobiography, the second enemy of listening.
Hartley Stevens
#65. The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
L.P. Hartley
#66. On this hapless earth There 's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart.
Hartley Coleridge
#68. If God wants us to pray without ceasing, it is because He wants to answer without ceasing!
Fred A. Hartley Jr.
#69. I became a kinesthetic person because I always overintellectualize. And feelings, for me, are a concept. Feelings? Ah yes, I've heard of those.
Nina Hartley
#70. One man can not wage a war alone. Therefore if humanity stops agreeing to go to war; there will be only peace.
Robert F. Hartley
#71. I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.
Marsden Hartley
#72. Sometimes we find ourselves fighting tooth and nail for something we think we want, when, in reality, what we really want comes not from giving up, but from being wise enough to choose which battles are worth fighting.
Samantha Hartley
#73. His mother's face expressed a prayer for patience.
L.P. Hartley
#74. Even the most impassioned devotee of the ghost story would admit that the taste for it is slightly abnormal, a survival, perhaps, from adolescence, a disease of deficiency suffered by those whose lives and imaginations do not react satisfactorily to normal experience and require an extra thrill
L.P. Hartley
#75. I found a very comfortable style in that if I know everyone's job around me, it's going to make me better at my job.
Justin Hartley
#77. Why do you like Hugh better? Because he is a Viscount?'
'Well, that's one reason,' I admitted, without any false shame. Respect for degree was in my blood and I didn't think of it as snobbery.
L.P. Hartley
#78. Sex is my practice. It's where I always strive to be my best self. I try to be as honest as possible, as present as possible, as centered as possible, as kind as possible, as generous as possible without being a doormat.
Nina Hartley
#79. The man who takes up nothing but a newspaper, but reads it to think, to deduct conclusions from its premises, and form a judgment on its opinions, is more fitted for society than he, who having all the current literature and devoting his whole time to its perusal, swallows it all without digestion.
Cecil B. Hartley
#80. With all your music, loud and lustily, With every dainty joy of sight and smell, Prepare a banquet meet to entertain The Lord of Thunder, that hath set you free From old oppression.
Hartley Coleridge
#81. If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles.
Hartley Coleridge
#82. But I was not so much interested in facts themselves as in the importance they had for my imagination. I was passionately interested in railways, and in the relative speed of the fastest express trains; but I did not understand the principle of the steam engine and had no wish to learn.
L.P. Hartley
#83. If everything I possessed, vanished, suddenly,
I'd be sorry.
But I value things unpossessed.
The wind, and trees, and sky and kind thoughts, much more.
Dorothy Hartley
#85. There's no such thing as adventure. There's no such thing as romance. There's only trouble and desire.
Hal Hartley
#86. I had a dream where I was taken to Heaven and brought into a beautiful library. There I was given two golden books that were covered with dust. The Lord told me they were golden treasure that was needed for the Body of Christ to have the knowledge to proceed and succeed in this hour.
Bob Hartley
#87. I should not have cared to see it as an act of self-sacrifice even if it had been one; for there is nothing clever in self-sacrifice, nothing to pride oneself on.
L.P. Hartley
#88. I have achieved the 'sacred' pilgrimage to Ktaadn MT - exceeding all my expectations so far that I am sort of helpless with words. I feel as if I have seen God for the first time, and find him so nonchalantly solemn.
Marsden Hartley
#90. The prince put the dagger on the table. "Sorry."
Yorick bent forward and looked up into his eyes. "Don't forget our respective places here. I'm your clown. Your plaything. Your toy. Scarcely human. No need to apologise.
A.J. Hartley
#91. I have always trusted my instincts, I took some bold decisions in my life ... many people may say they were crazy risks.
Bob Hartley
#92. The horse is by Nature a very lazy animal whose idea of heaven is an enormous field of lush grass in which he can graze undisturbed until his belly is full, and after a pleasant doze can start filling himself up all over again.
Elwyn Hartley Edwards
#93. (I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method ... rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.
Marsden Hartley
#94. By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get ... we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.
Marsden Hartley
#95. Now shall I become a common tale, A ruin'd fragment of a worn-out world; Unchanging record of unceasing change. Eternal landmark to the tide of time. Swift generations, that forget each other, Shall still keep up the memory of my shame Till I am grown an unbelieved fable.
Hartley Coleridge
#96. They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have begun; they have voiced most of all the imperative need of essential personalism, of direct expression of direct experience.
Marsden Hartley
#97. Personally I don't believe in standing on the ice, or jamming the blueline, waiting. I have always told my players that hockey has to be played on your toes.
Bob Hartley
#98. When I say, 'We're a team,' the reason why I point that out is because at 'All My Children,' that's the mindset. They're a team. And I've said this to other people: They're like a united front.
Lindsay Hartley
#99. The sense of form in New Mexico is for me one of the profoundest, most original, and most beautiful I have personally experienced. It must be 'learned.' . . . It is not a country of light on things. It is a country of things in light.
Marsden Hartley
#100. Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital the gross fog. The very light Is but an alien that can find no welcome
Hartley Coleridge
