C.L. Grant Quotes

I'm going to live what I believe

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

The economy is not the problem, how people respond is the problem!

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

Average is a failing plan! Average doesn't work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist.

I need music like I need water.

I hate stuff in my pockets, can't stand it. I'll carry stuff in my hands rather than put it in my pockets.

Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

Somebody who has been in a very bad wreck is going to be very conscientious about not speeding through a yellow light... You just learn so many good lessons when you go through a failed marriage.

Everyone tells me I've had such an interesting life, but sometimes I think it's been nothing but stomach disturbances and self-concern.

You can't get anywhere flying under the radar.

Most opportunities are disguised as problems.

Oh, Snap," I say. "What?" "Sorry. I was flashing back to 2005.

What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!

She was scared. Scared of dying.

All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.

Sometimes, the hardest habit to break is the habit of doing nothing beyond the necessary.

You can't kill the truth.

You are truly endearing when you sleep. I attribute this to the exotic nature of seeing you in a state of silence. —Tybalt

Any man who doesn't believe in carrying weapons on a first date is not a man worth knowing.

There is a list of things Im not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.

Winning was such as confidence boost, and fashion is a lot about confidence.

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.

I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.

Real relationship is gritty and earthy, the stuff that life is made of.

In the land of the blind the one eyed man is king. In the darkness the man with a candle is an easy target.

We have no excuse to deviate from the paths of righteousness. If we hold fast to the iron rod, we cannot be deceived.

Part of becoming a little bit older and having the opportunities that I have, you want to start giving back to people who have been influential and helped you along the way.

Dad has, and had, a deservedly glowing reputation. However, this belief in 'reputation first' seems to have given rise to his fears of what might be rumored after his death.

Truth speaks best in the language of poetry and symbolism, I think.

It's hard for me to believe that a shy, bespectacled college graduate like Brad Meltzer who's a novelist and a father is a really setting out to be weirdly misogynistic.

The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations.

Whatever you do, make sure you go right to the top, because you sure as hell can't piss upwards on people.

Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another.

Consciousness, rather than being something that we have, is something we participate in.

I realized eventually that if I was really on top of what I was doing, I should be able to make photographs out of almost anything.

The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?

If you cut corners you just keep on going in circles.

Oddly enough, success over a period of time is more expensive than failure.

I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.

I am free to confess that I am disappointed with the Yosemite valley. It seems only about one-half as grand as the American Fork canyon.

I know of nothing that I feel is of so great value in life as to be obedient to the counsel and advice of the Lord, and of His servants in this our day.

I have no problem with the concept of financial riches, but if you need to change the person you are in order to achieve that, I think you're taking too much of a gamble with your personal happiness.

'Glee' found me. I didn't really go looking for it.

The next day, we shot 'I Want You Back,' and that was a 14-hour day. That's typical. By the end of the day, my knees and ankles are killing me.

Mind your own business.

We're sitting in the dark willing to sell our souls for another peppermint with enough uranium to give a terrorist a wet dream. - Diana