Graditude Quotes & Sayings

Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing? — Bernard Berenson

In retrospect, it's ridiculous that anyone saw me as a fashion icon, since all I was trying to do was to dumb down my middle-class look by messing with my hair. Throughout the eighties I was invariably half-sure and half-confident about whatever it was I wore ... Still, I've always believed - still do - that the radical is far more interesting when it looks benign and ordinary on the outside. — Kim Gordon

When you look out in space, you're looking back into time. The farther across space you look, the further back in time you see. This means the telescopes and instruments we use to study the cosmos are really time machines. — Carolyn Collins Petersen

Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness. — Simone Weil

I understood something way back when I was on 'Three's Company.' When I got the part, I was flat broke. I was so happy to get the part, but I kept thinking, 'Ugh - dumb blondes are so irritating; how do I make her likable?' I think that I achieved that. It took a while for people to realize I was acting. — Suzanne Somers

The one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention. — Diane Sawyer

Three-year-olds have no control over their lives. If you don't want your kids competing in pageants, you hold the power, not them. I sincerely doubt a six-year-old would hitchhike to the banquet room at the Sheraton and compete in the Little Miss Shaker Heights pageant herself if her emotionally damaged Mommy wasn't pushing her. — Adam Carolla

Love transforms, Love heals. But sometimes it lays deadly traps and ends up destroying the person who decided to surrender himself completely. — Paulo Coelho

I do not live my own life, there is something stronger than me
which directs me. I suffer;
but formerly I was dead and only now do I live. — Leo Tolstoy

Those record companies don't know what's happening at all. — Ritchie Blackmore

The joke or the pratfall is easy for me to do. — Sandra Bullock

She leaned in to kiss him, tender and slow. "You're a good man, Hunter."


He rolled her underneath him, his body already aching for the sanctuary of hers. "You make me want to be. — Lisa Kessler

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear. — Paul Greengrass

'Tattoos' reminds me of where I'm from, and some of the stuff I did when I was growing up. That was one of the things that was appealing about the song when I heard it the first time. — Jason Aldean

Nearby sat a veteran in a wheelchair. He was young, handsome, and athletic, through missing a leg.

My daughter went to him and asked, "You're army - right?"

He said, "Yes, I am."

My daughter hugged him. "Thank you," she said. Tears welled in the man's eyes.

"Did you get my card?" she asked. "My school sent you a card. It said, 'Thank you for saving our Earth.'"

The guy just about lost it. He said, "You're welcome. Yes, we did get your card. Thank you for doing that."

- Michael Sobel, son of Herbert Sobel. Michael talking about his 6 year old daughter meeting veterans. — Marcus Brotherton