Grunthos Quotes & Sayings

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form. — Tom Stoppard

There are many types of silence. There is a silence before the note, there is a silence at the end and there is a silence in the middle. — Daniel Barenboim

Even after your heart breaks into a million pieces and your baby is gone, I am here to tell you- all around you the world will still go on spinning. — Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

I might get arrested, but I wasn't likely to get dissected. This is my life. — Seanan McGuire

Grief changes shape, but it never ends. — Keanu Reeves

No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing. — Kelly Miller

Rhys's lip pulled back from his teeth. "I dare you." Temper - he had to be in some mood today to let his temper show this much. Good. That made two of us. I flung my other shoe right at his head, as swift and hard as the first one. His — Sarah J. Maas

That by the decrees and volitions, and consequently the providence of God, Scripture (as I will prove by Scriptural examples) means nothing but Nature's order following necessarily from her eternal laws. — Baruch Spinoza

Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe.
The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. Grunthos was reported to have been "disappointed" by the poem's reception, and was about to embark on a reading of his 12-book epic entitled "My Favourite Bathtime Gurgles" when his own major intestine, in a desperate attempt to save humanity, leapt straight up through his neck and throttled his brain.
The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paul Neil Milne Johnstone of Redbridge, in the destruction of the planet Earth. Vogon poetry is mild by comparison. — Douglas Adams

Real education is never acquisition of knowledge but training of character. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health. — Christopher Shays

In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of new cities or new powerhouses. — Darryl Pinckney

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes. — Josiah Royce

All I have learned, I learned from books. — Abraham Lincoln

During a recitation by their Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning" four of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging, and the President of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off. — Douglas Adams

The tighter a deadline is, the more I'm inclined to be perverse and rebellious - I'll start thinking about another, different project, until it becomes the most fantastic thing which I must start immediately. — Errollyn Wallen

... He is driven by bitterness and anger. You can understand that.'
Nico wanted to yell, Like you know what I feel? — Rick Riordan