Gruening Quotes & Sayings

He has to play my game!" Sevro says. "Shithead isn't getting out till he plays nice. I'll give him a riddle instead. What do I have in my pocket? — Pierce Brown

Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even the teeth and alimentary organs die before we do, and yet this period is reckoned a portion of life. - Pg. 82 — Robert Harris

In the compact between novelist and reader, the novelist promises to lie, and the reader promises to allow it. — Cynthia Ozick

The Way creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. — Dan Millman

New York is hard, cynical, ruthless, even beyond other cities. From their early repression its children emerge sophisticated, both stunted and overdeveloped, perverted, premature, forced by the artificiality of their environment. — Ernest Gruening

The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable. — Anne Rice

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long. — Ikue Mori

Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the morning. A quest fuels our fire. It refuses to let us drift downstream gathering debris. — Charles R. Swindoll

An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day ... and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor. — Albrecht Durer

I was always enjoying the moment. Acting, writing, looking for roles and getting involved with people and trying to create something that would be entertaining to people. With 'E.R.,' we were all very lucky to get this combination of people together in the right story in the right way to take it to the level it has reached. — Anthony Edwards

Taking photographs can assuage the itch for possession sparked by the beauty of a place; our anxiety over losing a precious scene can decline with every click of the shutter. — Alain De Botton

The point is, the "best" technology or idea doesn't always prevail. Sometimes chance and the law of unintended consequences win out. — Eric Weiner

Leaders often find themselves temporarily alone. — Ernest Gruening