Grinded Or Ground Quotes & Sayings

A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild, Sick lust of souls, and an abortive child; Born between whores and fops, by lewd compacts, Before the play, or else between the acts; Nor wonder, if from such polluted minds Should spring such short and transitory kinds. — Jonathan Swift

Have I gone mad like Anne and no one has the heart to tell me? I wish someone would tell me, I feel crazy enough though. — Suzanne Collins

When, in 1913, in a desperate attempt to rid art of the ballast of objectivity, I took refuge in the form of the square ... the critics ... sighed, "All that we loved has been lost. We are in a desert" ... But the desert is filled with the spirit of non-objective feeling ... — Kazimir Malevich

I had no training in research as such, and as a consequence, I am, in a sense, self-taught. — Yves Chauvin

He stretched out his arms towards the dark water in a curious way, and,far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling involuntarily I glanced seaward - and distinguishing nothing except a single green light, minute and faraway, that might have been the end of a dock. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I auditioned for a solo in church and got it. I was about seven and I sang a song called, 'Jesus, I Heard You Had a Big House' and I remember people standing up at the end and me thinking, 'Oh, I think I'm going to like this.' That's how it all began. Sounds funny to say you got your start in church, but I did. — Kristin Chenoweth

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being. — Cynthia Ozick

I became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was and realized there were others like me. — Ivan E. Coyote

It is superstitious to put one's hope in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. — Blaise Pascal

What about everybody else Pye? How many lives can there be in one universe?'[ ... ] 'How many lives Richard?'[ ... ]'One.'. — Richard Bach

A great city may be seen as the construction of words as well as stone. — Yi-Fu Tuan