Grassed Up Quotes & Sayings

Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great — James C. Collins

Maybe because I do not like the idea of my grandmother and someone like Josef still coexisting in this world. — Jodi Picoult

My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero. — Tim McGraw

My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish. — Fran Lebowitz

A combination of working in politics as well as teaching and being [an actor] certainly helped. I became so much more comfortable in front of a crowd. I felt like I was calling on all those other experiences. — Zephyr Teachout

I once went out with this wild girl. She made French toast and got her tongue caught in the toaster. — Rodney Dangerfield

My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most. — Victoria Azarenka

Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling. — Izaak Walton

I saw myself dancing alone, always alone, — V.C. Andrews

All the June Saturday afternoon Sam Pollit's children were on the lookout for him as they skated round the dirt sidewalks and seamed old asphalt of R Street and Reservoir Road that bounded the deep-grassed acres of Tohoga House, their home. — Christina Stead

Famines occur under a colonial administration, like the British Raj in India or for that matter in Ireland, or under military dictators in one country after another, like Somalia and Ethiopia, or in one-party states like the Soviet Union and China. — Amartya Sen

Being a rock star was out of the question. I can't sing. — Linda Evangelista

I don't have a drinking problem. I drink. I get drunk. I fall down, no problem. — George Burns

So what? He's good to you and Hazel now, isn't he? Who cares if he's got history with some other broad? — Brian K. Vaughan

The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, The man that lives by hope, will die by despair. — Joseph Addison

He is rewarded with a form of eternal childhood,
with the bounty and vigilance of the stars,
the whole world was his inheritance
and he shared it with everyone. — Anna Akhmatova

Epitaph.
Not next year, not the next one,
Not the year after that. But ages
From here,
Clad in love stained sleeping bags,
Dying with feet wrapped in endless
Shirts and pillow cases,
Crumbling with 99 flakes clutched
Between thumb and palm, dripping
Yellow cream from twig fingers,
Basking our white haired chests on
Green grassed parks under purple
Skies. Laughing over coffee after
Bath tubs of coffee have passed
Through our guts. Huddled, lonely,
Under heaped clothes, here lay us ... — Alan C. Martin