Grunion Quotes & Sayings

With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them. — Brendon Urie

You know, The Beach Boys' image is kinda like a group Doris Day, you know what I mean? — Bruce Johnston

And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the senses? — Edgar Allan Poe

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. — Joan Didion

The Fox And The Crow
A CROW having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in her beak. A Fox, seeing this, longed to possess the meat himself, and by a wily stratagem succeeded. "How handsome is the Crow," he exclaimed, in the beauty of her shape and in the fairness of her complexion! Oh, if her voice were only equal to her beauty, she would deservedly be considered the Queen of Birds!" This he said deceitfully; but the Crow, anxious to refute the reflection cast upon her voice, set up a loud caw and dropped the flesh. The Fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: "My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting. — Aesop

I couldn't toast a piece of bread with the amount of heat they were putting on you — Jessica Lange

Most things, except agriculture, can wait — Jawaharlal Nehru

I would say that an easterner's first grunion hunt is also his first step in becoming what all of us sooner or later become here: beachcombers of some sort. — Max Miller

When I look at what I'm doing today, I see [the] roots in my college life. I was the online editor of my college paper and an active member of the Harvard Computer Society. I abandoned a summer internship at the Washington Post due to injury and instead did theatre. I found my comedic voice through satirical newsletters in college. — Baratunde Thurston

What I want to write about has changed somewhat, and the scope of the storytelling has changed accordingly. — Terry Brooks