All Quotes

Gran Metalik was a student in CMLL when I was there as a teenager, and I was in main events and big time matches, so I used to see him in the gym all the time.
‐‐ T. J. Perkins

Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' novels.
‐‐ Carrie Vaughn

'Grand Illusion' and 'Rules of the Game' are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be.
‐‐ Roger Ebert

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.
‐‐ John Philip Sousa

Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
‐‐ Venus Williams

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.
‐‐ Nolan Bushnell

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.
‐‐ Lois Wyse

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.
‐‐ Richard Lugar

Granddad offered me one hundred dollars if I would cut my mop of curly hair into a neat military style. Just before the wedding, I got a light trim. It wasn't enough for Granddad, and he didn't pay.
‐‐ David Eisenhower

Grandeur and sublimity, not softness, are the features of Estes Park. The glades which begin so softly are soon lost in the dark primaeval forests, with their peaks of rosy granite and their stretches of granite blocks piled and poised by nature in some mood of fury.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice.
‐‐ Black Elk

Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck.
‐‐ Allan Sherman

Grandmasters decline with age. That's a given. There is nothing special about the age of 40, but age eventually takes its toll. That much is clear. Beyond that, it's about how long you can put off the effects and compensate for them. Mistakes will crop in, but you try to compensate for them with experience and hard work.
‐‐ Viswanathan Anand

'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

Grandpa didn't have any idea of customer service. But he wanted to make a living. Eventually, we saw it was not in our best interest to be arguing with customers.
‐‐ Bruce Nordstrom

Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.
‐‐ T. Berry Brazelton

Granny beads are what they're called when a grandma works the garden all day - you always see them - they have a handkerchief around their neck with a lot of dust on them, and then the sweat will go down and make these black beads of sweat and dirt around their neck. And that's what they call granny beads.
‐‐ Randy Houser

Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as 'smell good' and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful - as well as creative - in the smell department. The key, I've found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

Grant Dalton, constantly, whenever he gets asked something in the media about Oracle, he makes the statement that we have got unlimited resources, and we can do anything we like. It is just complete crap.
‐‐ James Spithill

Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.
‐‐ Ken Thompson

Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.
‐‐ George Farquhar

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.
‐‐ Francis of Assisi

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
‐‐ Martin Luther

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
‐‐ Eduard Hanslick

Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant.
‐‐ Caecilius Statius

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
‐‐ Saint Augustine

Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones' until I saw the bookshelf sagging under the burden of those other volumes.
‐‐ Dave Morris

Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.
‐‐ Austin Seferian-Jenkins

Granted, I'm more interested in technology than most people, and less interested in politics than most. But I don't like to think about categories. I really see myself as a general non-fiction writer.
‐‐ James Gleick

Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.
‐‐ Aimee Bender

Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.
‐‐ Iman

Granted, it's not easy to be a super-tall woman in Hollywood. But there are times when it works in my favour. In 'The Night Manager,' for example, both of my co-stars, Hugh Laurie and Tom Hiddleston, are also well over 6 ft. and it was lovely to look a co-star in the eye and not have them standing on an apple box!
‐‐ Elizabeth Debicki

Granted, prostate exams aren't the most enjoyable things in the world, but they only last about 10 seconds. It's well worth it. Just think of the possible consequences if you don't get it done.
‐‐ Len Dawson

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.
‐‐ Norman Lear

Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.
‐‐ Ryan Phillippe

Granted, we need to have a sound immigration policy that allows people into our country who are going to produce more than they are going to consume, but the bottom line is illegal aliens consume far more of our tax resources than they generate.
‐‐ Mo Brooks

Grapes are grown in such profusion in the Southern and Western States that I have seen damaged bunches thrown to the pigs. Americans find it difficult to understand how highly this fruit is prized in England.
‐‐ Isabella Bird

Graphene is a single plane of graphite that has to be pulled out of bulk graphite to show its amazing properties.
‐‐ Andre Geim

Graphene is dead; long live graphene.
‐‐ Andre Geim

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
‐‐ George Santayana

Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.
‐‐ Paul Rand

Graphic Design, which fulfills aesthetic needs, complies with the laws of form and exigencies of two-dimensional space; which speaks in semiotics, sans-serifs, and geometrics; which abstracts, transforms, translates, rotates, dilates, repeats, mirrors, groups, and regroups, is not good design if it is irrelevant.
‐‐ Paul Rand

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.
‐‐ Marjane Satrapi

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.
‐‐ Michelle MacLaren

Graphics has lately made a great shift towards machine learning, which itself is about understanding data.
‐‐ Jefferson Han

Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much time, effort, and money is spent to prevent reality from breaking through.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

Grass-fed cattle are leaner. But it's not true that they are less flavorful.
‐‐ Alice Waters

Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.
‐‐ Steffi Graf

Grass-roots work is not flashy, and rarely celebrated on the national media level, but that is where change begins.
‐‐ Ilyasah Shabazz