Halsey Quotes
Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.
I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.
when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.
A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.
It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.
The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.
... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.
The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them.
Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.
Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.
English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.
... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.
Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.
Money does not corrupt people. What corrupts people is lack of affection ... Money is simply the bandage which wounded people put over their wounds.
democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.
If you embark on a project as magnificent in concept as the brotherhood of man, it is foolish not to anticipate difficulties of proportionate magnificence.
the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.
I learned how quickly I could go from having never met someone to having the world think I'm dating them.
I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
You can expect nothing in being a musician, and you have to be just very thankful every time it goes positively for you.
You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people.
The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
I'm a wanderessI'm a one night standDon't belong to no cityDon't belong to no man(Note: These lyrics were inspired by Roman Payne's quote from his novel "The Wanderess".)
