Clark Griswold Quotes & Sayings

Frontiers are physical as well as symbolic constructions
— Roland Barthes

I never sold out before because nobody ever asked me. In all it took around twenty minutes. — Roger L. Simon

There are three stages to a man's life. 1. He laughs at Clark Griswold. 2. He sympathizes deeply with Clark Griswold. 3. He laughs at Clark Griswold. — James Lileks

The arts, the arts, the arts - I don't know why it took me so long to realize how important they are. As a young man, I actually held them in supreme contempt. Now, whenever I think about them, I want to fall on my knees and weep. — Kurt Vonnegut

Because I never set out to be an actress, I always feel so lucky and grateful. There are so many people who are really desperate to be stars, and it was completely the opposite for me - I fell into it. — Sophia Myles

The beet must have been out of the ground a week or more, for it had the ashen exterior of a cancer victim. — Tom Robbins

In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to pen; till I was worn out with rage and malice against him, I could not bear myself. — Joanna Southcott

Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters. — Laurence Overmire

Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad, joy and sorrow. Now I can accept setbacks more easily, with less sense of disappointment and personal failure, because meditation has taught me how to cope with the profound truth that everything changes all the time. — Sharon Salzberg

At end of Love, at end of Life, At end of Hope, at end of Strife' At end of all we cling to so- The sun is setting-we must go. At dawn of Love, at dawn of Life, At dawn of Peace that follows Strife, At dawn of all we long for so- The sun is rising-let us go. — Louise Chandler Moulton

And the images vanish
like soft clouds up high,
transforming the colors of my rainbow
into the dark loneliness of my night. — Andrea Barbosa

I want to be able to discuss craft but I also want to teach writers to trust their instincts and learn to listen to themselves above all others. — Mary J. Miller

Perhaps it was just that, born in Scotland, you were hanselled with remorse, set up with shares in Calvin against your coming of age, so that much of the energy you expended came back guilt. — William McIlvanney

I was not okay for one thing.For another, I'd passed from simple misanthropy to nihilism, death of the spirit and beyond. — T.C. Boyle

I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it. — Edward Thomas