Gruntings Quotes & Sayings

There are no grown-ups ... Everyone is winging it, some just do it more confidently. — Pamela Druckerman

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation. — Samuel Butler

I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band. — Jimmy Chamberlin

Fancy hides a lot, while simple unapologetically puts it out there for everyone to see. — Kim Holden

This is the kind of writer who gets the ball rolling in his search for the holy grail, but finds that it's neither magic bullet nor a slam dunk, so he rolls with the punches and lets the chips fall where they may while seeing the glass as half-full, which is easier said than done. — Steven Pinker

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women. — Victor LaValle

Hoping gets you nothing in life. If you want more in life it's your job to earn it. — Robert Kiyosaki

Gargoyles were the complement to saints; Leonardo's caricatures were complementary to his untiring search for ideal beauty. And gargoyles were the expression of all the passions, the animal forces, the Caliban gruntings and groanings which are left in human nature when the divine has been poured away. Leonardo was less concerned than his Gothic predecessors with the ethereal parts of our nature, and so his caricatures, in their expression of passionate energy, merge imperceptibly into the heroic. — Kenneth Clark

The lady who works in the grocery store at the corner of my block is called Denise, and she's one of America's great unpublished novelists. Over the years she's written forty-two romantic novels, none of which have ever reached the bookstores. I, however, have been fortunate enough to hear the plots of the last twenty-seven of these recounted in installments by the authoress herself every time I drop by the store for a jar of coffee or can of beans, and my respect for Denise's literary prowess knows no bounds. So, naturally enough, when I found myself faced with the daunting task of actually starting the book you now hold in your hands, it was Denise I turned to for advice. — Dave Gibbons

Your ego is everything man about yourself — Jeremy Aldana

Grace is power, not just pardon. — John Piper

Intelligence seems not to originate from some outlandish formula, but rather from the patient, almost brute force use of simple, straightforward algorithms. It — Ethem Alpaydin

Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do. — Douglas Rushkoff

Genes do not make an individual homosexual. They play their part, but so does the rest of the universe. — Johnny Rich

It's highly ironic that it was the conservatives on the court who overturned so many statutes. — Jonathan Turley