Quotes About The Hall

#1. I always wanted to say I came out of the cornfields and got to the major leagues. That was my biggest thought. But now I can say I came out of the cornfields and got to the Hall of Fame.

Ray Dandridge

#2. But the king was frowning. "I expected you a month ago."
Aedion actually had the nerve to shrug. "Apologies. The Staghorns were slammed with a final winter storm. I left when I could."
Every person in the hall held their breath.

Sarah J. Maas

#3. To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it's pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it's still sort of unbelievable to me.

Joe Torre

#4. Everyone actually stepped aside when she came down the hall. Like she was a rock star. Or a leper.

Kami Garcia

#5. Behind them, across the hall, the dancers shattered their roses on the floor, and Aedion grinned at his queen as the entire world went to hell.

Sarah J. Maas

#6. I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which it contained for a full hour, it must have lost much of its vital properties and needed to be renewed.

George Combe

#7. Talk to me about your plans, Bram," Ailean said as he walked into the hall. "Come back to the war room." "You have a war room?"
"Don't you?

G.A. Aiken

#8. The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today.

Hank Stram

#9. I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

Dennis Eckersley

#10. You know,' he said as they made their way down the hall, 'I appreciate the support, Scully, but I don't need defending. Not really.'
She looked up at him and sighed. 'Oh yes you do, Mulder.'
He looked back blankly.
'Trust me,' she said, patting his arm. 'On this one you'll have to trust me.

Charles Grant

#11. The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.

Gary Sinise

#12. When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.

Eddie Murray

#13. In the hall itself the din of the music - for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what it was originally for - was so tremendous that it shattered Dean and Stan and me for a moment in the realization that we had never dared to play music as we wanted, and this was how loud we wanted.

Jack Kerouac

#14. The moment we stepped out into the hall, Cam's apartment door flung open. Ollie appeared, a cellphone in one hand and Raphael wiggling in the other. "Smile!" he shouted as he snapped a picture on his phone. "It's like my two kids are going to prom.

J. Lynn

#15. You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp.

Casey Stengel

#16. He was just entering the club ahead of me, a tall and rather emaciated man of about seventy, a little unsteady on his feet. He tripped over the doormat as he went in and stumbled forward; the hall porter jumped out and caught him by the elbow.

Nevil Shute

#17. Winston glanced across the hall. In the corresponding cubicle on the other side a small, precise-looking, dark-chinned man named Tillotson was working steadily away, with a folded newspaper on his knee and his mouth very close to the mouthpiece of the speakwrite.

George Orwell

#18. We watched them, and my stepmother, alarmed by the sound of hooves, came from the hall to join us on the rampart. "The devil has opened his bowels," my father greeted her.

Bernard Cornwell

#19. My price was his oath that he'd never lay a hand on you again. I told him I'd forgive him in exchange for that.
She wished he'd punched her in the gut. It would have hurt less. Not trusting herself to keep from falling to her knees with shame right there, she just stalked down the hall.

Sarah J. Maas

#20. His final touches completed, His Highness offers me his arm. On Wednesdays I'm now required to enter the grand assembly in the Hall of Mirrors on his arm like a glowing trophy. Not the kind of trophy one wins for completing a challenge, the kind one stuffs and hangs on the wall after killing it.

Aprilynne Pike

#21. When Morton Silkline reached the hall, his customer was just flapping out a small window. Quite suddenly, Morton Silkline found the floor.

Richard Matheson

#22. Do you think she'll catch him before he gets to the hall?"
"My mom's spent her whole life chasing me around," Clary said. "She moves fast.

Cassandra Clare

#23. A professional sex therapist." Gabe moved out into the hall. "Guess I should show some respect. They do say it's the oldest profession. No, wait, maybe I've got that mixed up with another line of work.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#24. At the ed of the hall stood a walnut door with a bronze plaque:
ASCLEPIUS
MD, DMD, DME, DC, DVS, FAAN, OMG, EMT, TTYL, FRCP, ME, IOU, OD, OT, PHARMD, BAMF, RN, PHD, INC., SMH
There may have been more acronyms in the list, but by that point Leo's brain had exploded.

Rick Riordan

#25. He leaned down and whispered to me: No matter how thin you get, no matter how short you cut your hair, it's still going to be you underneath. And he let go of my arm and walked back down the hall.

Marya Hornbacher

#26. She saw him after seventh hour in a place she'd never seen him before, carrying a microscope down the hall on the third floor. It was at least twice as nice as seeing him somewhere she expected him to be.

Rainbow Rowell

#27. I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one ... and stay healthy.

Eric Dickerson

#28. And doubts regarding how high the price might prove. But this is our way. This is our creed. This is the mantra of the Companions of the Hall. It can be no other way. And since we knew our course to be true, doubts could not equal regret. No matter the price. - Drizzt Do'Urden

R.A. Salvatore

#29. When the door opened, the three goons from the hall found me braced in a defensive stance, holding a full-sized horseman's glaive in front of me. As expected, all three of them stopped and stared. Eight-foot long polearms had that effect on people.

Seanan McGuire

#30. I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.

Gary Sheffield

#31. The hall they entered had arched ceilings over twenty feet high that were painted in tromp l'oeil, basically a bunch of butt-naked baby angels pointing at each other.' (Carlos)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#32. Yeah ... hey, you have a male here." Shay walked toward the hall, sniffing the air. "And he's human. Way to go, Dani!

Lia Davis

#33. The blue eyes watched the Texan as his python skin boots took him into the dimness of the hall of doors and his escape from Corazon's ICU was a clip clopping stride of broken confidence caught in the rebellious lighting of a cigarette.

Luke Taylor

#34. Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?

David Foster Wallace

#35. Dudley came waddling down the hall, his blond hair plastered flat to his fat head, a bow tie just visible under his many chins.

J.K. Rowling

#36. Cape Cod baseball dates back to the time of the Civil War. A poster at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown touts a round-trip train ride from Hyannis to Sandwich on July 4, 1885 - the occasion of the 14th annual baseball game between Sandwich and Barnstable.

Jane Leavy

#37. It would mean a lot to me to get into the Hall of Fame, to be grouped with some of the greatest players in history.

Leon Day

#38. There was no etiquette guide in the universe that told you how to handle waking up in a house you'd fled from as a teenager with your estranged sister in one room accross the hall and your husband's pregnant teenage mistress in the other.

Tiffany Baker

#39. Everything not forbidden by the laws of nature, he assured her - quoting a colleague down the hall - is mandatory.

Carl Sagan

#40. Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Bob Dylan

#41. Across the hall, Paul was either fucking the girl or murdering her, I couldn't tell which. I smelled mothballs. The afghan was going to have to go.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#42. Sometimes as I laid there with my Walkman and headphones, I'd stare at the closed door and know she was just across the hall. What was she doing?

Cambria Hebert

#43. Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.

Wade Boggs

#44. Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.

Ralph Kiner

#45. Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.

Harold Brodkey

#46. But you cannot go through the Door of Destiny without passing through the Hall of Haters.

T.D. Jakes

#47. I hear you're going to boarding school," she said. "Whose idea was that?"
"Mine," I said.
"I could never send Kyle to boarding school," Audrey said.
"I guess you love Kyle more than my mom loves me," I said, and played my flute as I skipped down the hall.

Maria Semple

#48. When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.

Bud Gardner

#49. You, too," she answered. She counted out all eighteen steps as he headed back up to the basement. To be safe, she even listened for his footsteps across the floor and down the hall to the laundry room. She knew he was more annoying than dangerous, but sometimes he managed to blur the line.

Peter Clines

#50. I'll take anyway to get into the Hall of Fame. If they want a batboy, I'll go in as a batboy.

Phil Rizzuto

#51. She smiled at him, though her hazel-green eyes were wary beneath the brim of a sodden hat. Right at that moment, staring at her across the hall, Gideon Shaw, cynic, hedonist, drunkard, libertine, fell hopelessly in love.

Lisa Kleypas

#52. The only thing worse than being in the Hall of Fame is not being in the Hall of Fame.

Tom Waits

#53. Now, Diane, leave her alone." My father's voice sounded from down the hall and I heard his footsteps approach. Soon he was also in the doorway. He gave me a quick once-over and nodded. "She looks really good. Hopefully he'll be concentrating on the way she looks so she doesn't have to talk so much.

Penny Reid

#54. Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

Al Barlick

#55. arm more tightly, as much to quell her own fears as give support to Adele. When they finally reached the hall, Adele looked around swiftly and then she also shivered and drew her robe about her. It seemed

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#56. As the last Seelie left the hall, Roiben, self-declared King of the Unseelie Court, nearly fell into his throne. Kaye tried to smile at him, but he was not looking at her. He was staring out across the brugh with eyes the color of falling ash.
Corny had not stopped laughing.

Holly Black

#57. Pau is one of the best big men in the game. I mean, Pau Gasol is going to be in the Hall of Fame.

Phil Jackson

#58. That man has no shadow," he says, as Chandresh leans over the twins to peer out the window at the empty street.
"what did you say?" Chandresh asks, but Poppet and Widget, and the orange kittens have already run off down the hall, lost in the colorful crowd.

Erin Morgenstern

#59. Any trouble?" He asked. "No, sir. A few people turned up so we naturalized them and stuck them in a room down the hall.

Rob Buckman

#60. When gold and jade fill the hall, their possessor cannot keep them safe.

Lao-Tzu

#61. Sybilla poked her head inside. "We should go down to the hall now or risk Alysandir's displeasure.

Elaine Coffman

#62. Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!

Ogden Nash

#63. Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

Daisy Ashford

#64. SHUT UP!" I yelled all the way down the hall. "FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE, JUST SHUT YOUR STUPID NOSY MOUTH!

James Patterson

#65. I scratch off number five very slowly and the marker squeaks. "But I'm only dancing with you." "Sounds like a great plan to me." He offers me his elbow and I link my arm with his, feeling safe with him by my side as we saunter down the hall to go outside.

Jessica Sorensen

#66. I sort of ride the fence on that whole steroid era issue. I don't have a definite opinion like some of my fellow Hall of Famers. Some of the guys were very, very adamant about a person being associated with steroids: 'They'll never be in the Hall of Fame. If they are, I'll never come back.'

Mike Schmidt

#67. Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Washington Irving

#68. It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.

Tom Petty

#69. The big trouble is not really who isn't in the Hall of Fame, but who is. It was established for a select few.

Rogers Hornsby

#70. I never thought I'd die alone. Another six months I'll be unknown. Give all my things to all my friends.
You'll never set foot in my room again. You'll close it off, board it up. Remember the time that I spilled the cup of apple juice in the hall? Please tell mom this is not her fault.

Blink-182

#71. I count it an honor to play with some guys that I've watched play on television, and may be in the Hall of Fame some day.

Andy Pettitte

#72. Cam backed toward the door, arms still raised. He tapped the top of the door frame. "Guess what?"
"What?"
A slight grinned appeared. "My bedroom is right across the hall."
My tummy tumbled. "Okay."
The grin spread, turning wicked. "Just thought you'd be happy to hear that.

J. Lynn

#73. The final ballots represent players, managers, executives and builders who are top-tier candidates and worthy of review for consideration for election to the Hall of Fame.

Fay Vincent

#74. The 50 greatest players don't matter when you're in the Hall of Fame. We all know that I was not one of the 50 greatest, I was one of the 25 greatest - in my mind.

Dominique Wilkins

#75. Rosie is a Hall of Fame player, and I wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame if it weren't for him.

Frank Gifford

#76. I think it's important for fans to be involved in all aspects of the game. We saw the league certainly make that move towards involving fans with pro bowl voting, I'm not sure that fan voting will ever be a part of the Hall of Fame, but it is always interesting to get the perspective of the fans.

Howie Long

#77. I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't.

Debby Boone

#78. And as far as possible for sickness or fatigue, constrain yourself to eat in the hall before your people, for this shall bring great benefit and honour to you.

Robert Grosseteste

#79. In the hall of mirrors, you are everywhere. Which is the real you? Find your original Self, the one who perceives all the reflections and is amused by them. Then you will recognize your path and walk it.

Alberto Villoldo

#80. The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

Jane Porter

#81. When I started playing the game of baseball, the more I played and the better numbers I got, the more I started thinking about the Hall of Fame. But I never thought I had a chance to be there.

Roberto Alomar

#82. If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A. and to describe that journey, those 17 years with the philharmonic and building the hall and this and that, I would have said, "This is a fairy tale of the first order."

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#83. How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.

Eugene Field

#84. Welcome to the Hall of Presidents.

Ted Theodore

#85. She was already moving down the hall in the opposite direction from Deke, and so once again any protest I might have made was largely irrelevant. I sighed and followed, wondering if Deborah had learned this kind of behavior, perhaps from a book called The Management Style of Bulldozers. I

Jeff Lindsay

#86. Down the hall I could hear the thud of basketballs, the blare of the time-out horn, and the shouts of the crowd as the sports-beasts fought: Lisbon Greyhounds versus Jay Tigers.
Who can know when life hangs in the balance, or why?

Stephen King

#87. If I can bring anyone into that hall [creeds], I have done what I attempted. But it is in the rooms [confessions], not the hall, that there are fires and chairs and meals.7

Justin S. Holcomb

#88. I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.

Pete Rose

#89. My fists clenched, I fought the pain and anger coursing through me. I turned towards Emma's door and set my hands on either side of the door, bowing my head. "I don't understand. Why'd you leave with him, Emma?" I whispered, then walked toward my room at the end of the hall.

Rebecca Donovan

#90. The dead lay in a row in the middle of the hall.

J.K. Rowling

#91. Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.

Billy Joel

#92. Of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house.

C.S. Lewis

#93. Sleepwalking down the hall like a firefly in the fog.

Ben Weaver

#94. Rain continued beating against the hall windows, a distant reminder that there was still a world around them.

Sarah J. Maas

#95. And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same, Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came, And knew them how to order without blame.

Edmund Spenser

#96. The person you're choosing is going to be 90 feet down the hall for four years. That's a pretty intimate and close relationship, and it better be somebody you're comfortable with, you like, you trust, you look forward to seeing, not someone you're coming up with creative ideas on how to avoid.

Mark Shields

#97. 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.

Charlaine Harris

#98. So she left Rowan in the hall. But it did not stop her from wishing she could keep him.

Sarah J. Maas

#99. A man's soft laughter echoed in the hall by the kitchen and she heard the rush of someone darting past the office. Somehow she felt comforted and didn't bother to turn around. The next afternoon, Emily moved into History House.

Judith Baller-Fabian

#100. Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall.

J.R.R. Tolkien