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  • Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it. -- Zach Wamp
  • It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases. -- Alice Hamilton
  • Separately there was only wind, water, sail, and hull, but at my hand the four had been given purpose and direction. -- Lowell Thomas
  • The air is like a draught of wine. The undertaker cleans his sign, The Hull express goes off the line, When it's raspberry time in Runcorn. -- Noel Coward
  • I joined Yes in July 1971. I had heard Yes live, as Strawbs had supported them at a gig in Hull. I thought they were amazing - incredibly different. -- Rick Wakeman
  • He should be worried about playing the game, not innovating it. He thinks he's Brett Hull or something. You should remind him that he didn't go to college. He's a junior (hockey) guy. So he's not that bright. -- Garth Snow
  • Jane Addams, founder of Hull House, once asked, "How shall we respond to the dreams of youth?" It is a dazzling and elegant question, a question that demands an answer--a range of answers, really, spiraling outward in widening circles. -- Bill Ayers
  • Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle. -- Bobby Hull
  • Most of their lives, people are just waiting to be ambushed. ~ Brandon Hull -- Jayden Hunter
  • Words can be as deadly as bullets. But bullets are faster acting. ~ Brandon Hull -- Jayden Hunter
  • Schweitzer in the Congo did not derive more moral credit than Larkin did for living in Hull. -- Alan Bennett
  • Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull and Jean Béliveau probably looked at us in the '80s and said, "These guys are soft. We used to take the train." -- Wayne Gretzky
  • Whether it is a big ship or small ship, the same size hole placed correctly in the hull can sink it. -- Ed Parker
  • The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars. -- Reginald Ray
  • Leo had wanted to paint a giant message on the bottom of the hull-WASSUP? with a smiley-face-but Annabeth had vetoed the idea. -- Rick Riordan
  • All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! -- Thomas Carlyle
  • Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies. -- Tomas Transtromer
  • Launching a newspaper without a coherent idea of how you're going to promote it, or get it to people who might want to read it, is like launching a boat without a rudder or an engine... or a hull, now that I think about it. -- Charlie Pierce
  • To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism that tends to form around the Church the way barnacles gather on the hull of a ship, all this talk about dynamism sounds foolish. -- Thomas Merton
  • As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the National Theatre, that's who you play to. It's not money - it's good to get some, but that's not why I do it. You do it because you have to, to tell a story. -- Sylvester McCoy
  • In Detroit, Ned [Harkness] kept talking about a new concept, and when I'd ask him what he meant he never gave me the right answer. Now, take Bobby Hull. Give him a puck, a stick and a pair of skates and put him on your team. Do you need a new concept? -- Frank Mahovlich
  • It's no use to go and take courses in playwriting any more than it's much use taking courses in acting. Better play to a bad matinee in Hull - it will teach you much more than a year of careful instruction. Come to think of it, I never did play to a good matinee in Hull . . . -- Noel Coward
  • All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned current of life flowing through you, through her, through all the guys behind you and after you, the flowers and the birds and the sun streaming in and the fragrance of it choking you, annihilating you. -- Henry Miller
  • The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out tome on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • To anybody who can hold the Present at its worth without being inappreciative of the Past, it may be forgiven, if to such an one the solitary old hulk at Portsmouth, Nelson's Victory, seems to float there, not alone as the decaying monument of a fame incorruptible, but also as a poetic approach, softened by its picturesqueness, to the Monitors and yet mightier hulls of the European ironclads. -- Herman Melville
  • Maxim 10: Sometimes the only way out is through... through the hull.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries -- Howard Tayler
  • From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left. -- James Lileks
  • Silent," the carved wizardwood on his wrist breathed. "Silent as a blinded ship, floating hull-up in the sea. Silent as a scream underwater. -- Robin Hobb
  • She is the swelling sail, trim rigging and bust sunlit deck of our matrimonial yacht. I am the low hull, with the invisible ballast and keel. -- Alasdair Gray
  • Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship's hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o're the sea." (Cutthroat's Omen: A Crimson Dawn) -- John Phillips
  • Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship's hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o're the sea." (Cutthroat's Omen: A Crimson Dawn)" -- Capt. John Phillips Circa 1723
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