Grunner Quotes & Sayings

Would you like some company? I say, moving over and sitting next to Blair. She doesn't like that, giving me a look like I'm encroaching on her territory. I smile at her and she gets a confused expression on her face. Nobody ever expects anyone else to be nice, so if you really want to throw them off their game or even just disarm a dangerous situation, try it. It works fabulously. — C.M. Stunich

What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style. — Russell Smith

This was the fundamental problem with rockets - and no one had ever discovered any alternative for deep-space propulsion. It was just as difficult to lose speed as to acquire it, and carrying the necessary propellant for deceleration did not merely double the difficulty of a mission; it squared it. — Arthur C. Clarke

Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. — Aesop

In the eighteenth century it was often convenient to regard man as a clockwork automaton. In the nineteenth century, with Newtonian physics pretty well assimilated and a lot of work in thermodynamics going on, man was looked on as a heat engine, about 40 per cent efficient. Now in the twentieth century, with nuclear and subatomic physics a going thing, man had become something which absorbs X-rays, gamma rays and neutrons. — Thomas Pynchon

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars. — Abbie Hoffman

When I was 27, I didn't have a clue what was going on! At that age, to have that much power and to have that much ambition is something. — Stephen Graham

No'
might make them angry
but
it will make
you
free. — Nayyirah Waheed

I really do want people to listen to the music more than watch what I wear. There's time for that later. I've got the rest of my life to dress up and look nice. — Marina And The Diamonds

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor — Francois De La Rochefoucauld