Griffs Quotes & Sayings

I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in his bedroom; on the contrary, my father ... once laughingly told my mother that he thought I might suffer from a type of benign psychosis called "antiparanoia," in which I seemed to believe that I was the object of an intricate universal conspiracy to make me so happy I could hardly stand it. — David Foster Wallace

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick. — Joe Abercrombie

Never sleep with anybody who has more problems than you do. — Robert McKee

A theology that does not build on the past ignores our debt to history and naively overlooks the fact that the present is conditioned by history. A theology that relies upon the past evades the demands of the present. — Greg Nichols

I don't feel like taking pictures with anyone [or] doing anything. I just like chillin'. — Mac Miller

Music can change our feelings, but a Lover or Friend can change all in us. — Jan Jansen

And don't kid yourself; when you don't decide, that's a decision. — Anh Do

Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar
the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved. — Yann Martel

I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive! — Allan Sloan

Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list
the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation. — Karl Marx