Groskopfs Quotes & Sayings

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career. — Matt Groening

A steady flow of complaints about the proliferation of books reverberated into the late 1600s. Intellectuals warned that people would stop talking to each other, burying themselves in books, polluting their minds with useless, fatuous ideas. — Daniel J. Levitin

Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears. — Paavo Haavikko

Many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with. Its fate. What's meant to be will always find a way. — Clara Garcia

On the pitiless earth where lovers are often separated in death and are always born
divided, the total possession of another human being and absolute communion throughout an entire
lifetime are impossible dreams. — Albert Camus

Suicides do not end their lives because they are weak, mentally ill, or depressed - though certainly they may be all those things. They are in blinding, all-consuming psychic pain, and perhaps on that final poisonous day they can find no reason not to. — Jill Bialosky

She was not unattractive until she focused her eyes on a human being, when their unblinking coldness gave the effect of the stare of an adder. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here? — Mason Cooley

As great edifices collapse of their own weight, so Heaven sets a similar limit to the growth of prosperous states. — Lucan

What has happened to create this doubt is that a problem (such as a deep conflict or a bad experience) has been allowed to usurp God's place and become the controlling principle of life. Instead of viewing the problem from the vantage point of faith, the doubter views faith from the vantage point of the problem. Instead of faith sizing up the problem, the situation ends with the problem scaling down faith. The world of faith is upside down, and in the topsy-turvy reality of doubt, a problem has become god and God has become a problem. — Os Guinness

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics. — Bell Hooks

I can never remember what I do even in the studio. — Ritchie Blackmore

Actually, my real name is not Mona. It's Jasmeet. I changed it to Mona when I came to Mumbai. — Mona Singh

High school and college students like to torture their bodies. They pull countless all-nighters, continually skip breakfast, eat nothing but ramen noodles for dinner, find creative new ways to guzzle alcohol, transform into couch potatoes, and gain 15 pounds at the freshman dinner buffet. At least, that's the stereotype. — Stefanie Weisman