All Quotes

Grace Kelly, Rita Hayworth and Sofia Lauren are my style inspirations. In terms of modern day actresses who I find inspiring, I love Emma Stone, Rooney Mara, Kirsten Dunst and Evan Rachel Wood. They aren't afraid to take risks and make edgy.
‐‐ Carly Steel

Grace Kelly was a very commercial model; she had no interest in being a fashion model. None at all.
‐‐ Eileen Ford

Grace, like an angel of mercy, makes his voice heard sweet and clear, repeating the story of the cross, the matchless love of Jesus.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
‐‐ Karl Barth

Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.
‐‐ Jay Weatherill

Grace, respect, reserve, and empathetic listening are qualities sorely missing from the public discourse now.
‐‐ Meryl Streep

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.
‐‐ Samuel Rutherford

Grace under pressure isn't just about bullfighters and men at war. It's about getting up every day to face a job or a white boss you don't like but have to face to feed your children so they'll grow up to be a better generation.
‐‐ Ernest Gaines

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.
‐‐ Jessica Mitford

Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar.
‐‐ Jason McCoy

Grade school, middle school and high school were relatively easy for me, and with little studying, I was an honor student every semester, graduating 5th in my high school class.
‐‐ Ferid Murad

Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.
‐‐ James S. Coleman

Grades can matter, especially for those students and parents who live for the next round of applications to graduate or professional schools. But there's a problem with the grade emphasis. Math or science graduates earn more than students majoring in the humanities.
‐‐ Amity Shlaes

Grades don't measure anything other than your relevant obedience to a manager.
‐‐ John Taylor Gatto

Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.
‐‐ Thomas J. Stanley

Grades were important in our house. I was reading by two. My mom would sit there and read with me, read with me, read with me. It was wonderful.
‐‐ Fergie

Gradual fiscal consolidation may also be stimulative in the short run.
‐‐ Glenn Hubbard

Gradually, everything that happens in the world is coming to be of interest everywhere in the world, and, gradually, thoughtful men and women everywhere are sitting in judgment upon the conduct of all nations.
‐‐ Elihu Root

Gradually, football has seen its appeal slip at the most basic levels. Pediatricians are advising parents not to let young children play organized football too early in life.
‐‐ Charlie Pierce

Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.
‐‐ Ernst Toller

Gradually, I came to know my horses intimately. You go through every mood they experience and come to view the world much like a horse.
‐‐ Tim Cope

Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit.
‐‐ Martha Gellhorn

Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation.
‐‐ Sidney Lanier

Gradually it occurred to me that we spend a great deal of life asleep and that dreams are little narratives, little stories. I thought, 'Who's choreographing this stuff?'
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

Gradually, people are connecting with my music, and that means the world to me.
‐‐ Jana Kramer

Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.
‐‐ Michael Eisner

Graduate school is a really supportive environment, but in a way, it was only when that support vanished that I flourished.
‐‐ Susan Choi

Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
‐‐ Bruce Eric Kaplan

Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach

Graffiti is linear, and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls.
‐‐ Cy Twombly

Graffiti is usually a protest - ink on walls - or has a reason for being naughty or aggressive.
‐‐ Cy Twombly

Graffiti's always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off.
‐‐ Banksy

Graffiti writers were the most interesting people in hip hop. They were the mad scientists, the mad geniuses, the weird ones.
‐‐ Adam Mansbach

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
‐‐ Brendan Fraser

Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace of stalactites and stalagmites, and some people find her company, albeit by proxy, about as inviting as a long weekend in a walk-in frigidaire.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best.
‐‐ Alan Furst

Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I'm not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He's so fast.
‐‐ Sarah Jessica Parker

Graham was my father's second name, so I took Graham because Lukas Graham sounded cool.
‐‐ Lukas Forchhammer

Graham Yost is a genius, and I know that very well because we worked together on 'Band of Brothers' and 'Boomtown.'
‐‐ Neal McDonough

Grain isn't structured like a screen door that you're looking through, but pixels are. Film-based grain is just all over the place, one frame totally different from the next. So your edges are coolly sharp and have a different feeling, an organic feeling rather than this mechanic feeling you get with digital.
‐‐ Greg MacGillivray

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.
‐‐ Peter Singer

Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.
‐‐ Vik Muniz

Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves.
‐‐ Muhammad Yunus

Gramercy Park is a four-acre square given in perpetuity to the residents surrounding it, 170 years ago, by Samuel Ruggles, a real estate developer of immoderate means.
‐‐ Bill Buford

Gramercy Tavern appeared on the cover of New York Magazine the day we opened, and it was five deep at the bar with people who were not necessarily here to dine. They just wanted to kinda sniff out the hot, new restaurant.
‐‐ Danny Meyer

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.
‐‐ Joan Didion

Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.
‐‐ Tony Parsons

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
‐‐ Moliere

Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it.
‐‐ Toni Braxton