Grinter Quotes & Sayings

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress. — William Whipple

There is now a $5 million dollar bounty on Osama bin Laden. Which marks the first time in history there has ever been a bounty on a guy's head who wears Bounty on his head. — Jay Leno

The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn destroys the vision and the dream. — Azar Nafisi

It's true to say that once I've got the bare bones of a story, I often get ideas from my own research trips to faraway places. — Michelle Paver

Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature. — William Shakespeare

I'm not trying to make excuses for David Seaman, but I think the
lights may have been a problem ... — Kevin Keegan

When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends. — Tayari Jones

When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps. — David Baker

I always wonder how to measure how beautiful life is. — Debasish Mridha

As I stood on the lonely backroad, I'm sure I heard birds, kookaburras, laughing ... — Steven Herrick

I don't want to bury anything in poetry. — Sharon Van Etten

Until 2008 the mosquitoes on Cape Hatteras were the worst I'd ever experienced. That would all change once we stepped foot into Sky Lakes Wilderness in southern Oregon during my second thru-hike of the PCT. The Oregon snowpack during the previous winter had been well above average, which left lingering snow in the high country that summer. P.O.D. and I had been on a faster pace than I had in 2004 on the PCT and we ended up being in Sky Lakes Wilderness about 3 weeks earlier which was theoretically about six weeks earlier considering the timeframe of the snow melt. Long story short, we showed up during the peak of the mosquito season. The mosquitoes in Sky Lakes made those in Cape Hatteras look like lazy houseflies. It was beyond brutal. We were lucky to escape without requiring a transfusion. — Lawton Grinter