Grinners Quotes & Sayings

It's only when it's smoothed out by history and we try to make sense of it - this incredibly complicated period when everyone's doing something different every day - that we look for those stylistic similarities and we say, "Well, that's what that was about," and sort of forget all the other nuance. I definitely feel that that's true for this time in my community of artists, and I'm sure that it was true at other times too. — Missy Mazzoli

Madman, thou errest. I say, there is no darkness but ignorance, in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog. — William Shakespeare

I think it's really great when you stand up for something that you really believe, even if you get heat for it. — Christina Aguilera

Twenty-first century war adds new risks: more and more often there are no front lines, no central command, no rules of engagement - only a chaotic collision of politics, power, faith and bloodlust. Victims are as likely to be civilians as soldiers. — Nancy Gibbs

He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I box in yellow Gox box socks. — Dr. Seuss

I never wore flats: The higher the shoe, the better. — Patti Hansen

Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry. — George Ayittey

Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. — William McKinley

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise. — Paul Lansky

When you feel anger, it always means there is something you are not understanding. — M.G. Hawking

You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here. — Irving Ravetch

If they [the mothers] use different vocabularies, they may share a postmodern feminist "body politics" - in this instance an awareness that maternal breastfeeding carries no inherent, "natural" meaning, that it is always located where historically specific, culturally articulated interests and power relations collide with the recalcitrance of the body. — Linda Blum

Love destroys. Thought creates. — Samantha Hunt