Gryce Quotes & Sayings

Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music. — Tom Glazer

Citizenship is the right to have rights. — Earl Warren

That's the bravest thing, I think: not to be brave for yourself but for a buddy when it gets you nothing and costs you everything. — Stephen Hunter

The self is the modern substitute for the soul. — Allan Bloom

Mr. Gryce was like a merchant whose warehouses are crammed with an unmarketable commodity. — Edith Wharton

She had been bored all afternoon by Percy Gryce ... but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptibilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life. — Edith Wharton

Even farts made no impression on it. I can't help it, gas escapes from my fundament on the least pretext, it's hard not to mention it now and then, however great my distaste. One day I counted them. Three hundred and fifteen farts in nineteen hours, or an average of over sixteen farts an hour. After all it's not excessive. Four farts every fifteen minutes. It's nothing. Not even one fart every four minutes. It's unbelievable. Damn it, I hardly fart at all, I should never have mentioned it. Extraordinary how mathematics help you to know yourself. — Samuel Beckett

The study of yoga makes me inspired. And then the teaching of yoga makes it that much more real. The sense that this practice and this tool helps other people be centered, be present, and helps them really [be] embodied and [have] a life. — Rodney Yee

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here. — Deepak Chopra

She put her hand on her chest. I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must be still. I have read quite as many stories as you, September. More, no doubt. And I know a secret you do not: I am not the villain. I am no dark lord. I am the princess in this tale. I am the maiden, with her kingdom stolen away. And how may a princess remain safe and protected through centuries, no matter who may assail her? She sleeps. For a hundred years, for a thousand. Until her enemies have all perished and the sun rises over her perfect, innocent face once more. — Catherynne M Valente

Some people you love while they're there, and some people you love forever, whether they're there or not. — Sara J. Henry

I looked like a corpse, and not a particularly fresh corpse at that. — Emmett Spain

If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us ... — Constance Fenimore Woolson

Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall — J.R.R. Tolkien

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood. — Ettore Sottsass

You will never be a burden to me. It is my privilege to be available to you whenever you may need me. — Sylvia Day