Grigies Quotes & Sayings

Suffer all, and conquer all. — John Wesley

It was a very special feeling to wake up in the morning, all alone in a flat, it was as though emptiness were not only around me but also inside me. Until I started at the gymnas I had always woken to a house where Mom and Dad were already up and on their way to work with all that entailed, cigarette smoke, coffee drinking, listening to the radio, eating breakfast, and car engines warming up outside in the dark. This was something else, and I loved it. — Karl Ove Knausgard

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution. — Manuel Puig

Don't ask me to give her up before I even really get to know her ... Because you're not going to like my response. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

A library is also a place where love begins. — Rudolfo Anaya

I've never made the film I wanted to make. No matter what happens, it never turns out exactly as I hoped. — Roger Corman

The American university inherits the missions of two very different institutions: the English college and the German research university. The first pattern prevailed before the Civil War. Curricula centered on the classics, and the purpose of education was understood to be the formation of character. With the emergence of a modern industrial society in the last decades of the nineteenth century, that kind of pedagogy was felt to be increasingly obsolete. Johns Hopkins was founded in 1876 as the first American university on the German model: a factory of knowledge that would focus in particular on the natural and social sciences, the disciplines essential to the new economy and the world to which it was giving rise. — William Deresiewicz

I've often said that the desire to lecture China on how it should behave in the world is wrong. China was around for thousands of years even before America existed. It could even be that China's growing power will allow itself to be slowed down. But as long as this immense empire doesn't fall apart, it will become an important factor in global politics. — Henry A. Kissinger

I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie. — Kiefer Sutherland

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes. — Mose Allison

So instead of a bra, what do you think I wore for support, intergalactically? Gaffer's tape. — Carrie Fisher

I don't like doing anything that makes you sweat if you don't come at the end of it. — Russell Brand

If you carve out what you expect, that's how you end up getting disappointed, not living fully in the present. — Gwyneth Paltrow

Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of nature reforms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just because something isn't right, doesn't make it wrong. — Elise Kova