C.L. Grant Quotes

In general, markets know more than the people who write about them.

Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.

It is an axiom nowadays that no bank fails for lack of capital; unprofitable lending is always the underlying cause.

Hope sustains life, but misplaced hope prolongs recessions.

[T]he first bad bank loan was no doubt made around the time of the opening of the first bank.

Dali had a good sense of humor - obviously you could tell just looking at him; he was funny.

I understand that there are a lot of things you cannot control in this world.

I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.

Something big, ... is about to happen at Notre Dame.

If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

Its a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode.

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

Reading wasn't my religion - it was my oxygen.

It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.

A new dress. Is this all it takes to make a new beginning, this shred of dyed cloth, shaped into the form of a woman's body?

I'm a really hectic dreamer, I never wake up not out of a dream and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.

When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase.

Everyone's politics are born of self-interest, particularly around sexuality. We just have to own up to that.

A lot of the political change that could happen is going to be super boring.

I have to do this all the time - choosing what to print based on how it might come back to harm people from whom I've earned trust.

We didn't Make this World we're just the Poor Fools who are living in it.

So many things I'm not, and so few things I am.

Here's the thing: I am not beautiful. I'm pretty. I'll allow that much. Pretty. But I'm not the girl boys long for.

But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.

You like blue eyes, huh?" "Yes. I do. I like blue eyes.

You're staring," Lana said. "Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys.

It's Sanjit. It's a Hindu name. It means 'invincible.'" "That's great," Lana said. "Invincible. I can't be vinced." "That's not even a word," Lana said. "Go ahead: try to vince me," Sanjit said.

It's over, Sam. Finally." "Yeah," he said. "I guess it is." "Turn out the light, Sam." Sam reached for the switch and turned out the light.

That's your solution? Have a cookie?' Astrid asked. 'No, my solution is to run down to the beach and hide out until this is all over,' Sam said. 'But a cookie never hurts.

Sometimes, if I really strain my brain, I can even do multiplication.

Deep down, she's a good person, Diana is," Caine said, and sighed. "Deep down, I'm not. But she is.

but I know you're the brightest shooting star in the sky - Astrid

Say it. But..." "But what?" he asked. She whispered it, sounding too vulnerable. "But only if its the truth, Caine. Only. If." "I love you," he said.

They both smiled at the picture of Albert in his chinos and button-down shirt exhorting kids from atop a bike.

San: You all right? Virt: I think i crapped myself a little Sam: Just a little? you've got nerves of steel.

Sam’s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,” Caine said. “I can’t let that boy save the world all alone. I’d never live it down.

An old couple came running from a motorhome, scribbling as they ran. Their sign read, Can you check on our cat, Ariel? No one would answer that, because the cats had all been eaten.

Come live with us, Diana. Don't argue. Just say yes." Diana looked at the ground to hide her emotions. Then she said, "Would I have to be hearing you two going at it night and day?

So, Diana thought, that was the bait she had to lay out for Jack. Of course. What else? He might lust for Diana, and long for Brianna, but Jack’s true love was made of silicon.

the devil does not have a fork Brianna, he has a whip

Smart stupid. Stupid smart.

You don't look so much like a great hero,' Jarrah said. 'I'm pretty sure I'm not,' Mack said wearily. 'My throat is hoarse from screaming in terror. I don't think heroes have that problem.

Sam- I didn't know you had a last name I thought you were like Iman or Madonna or Beyonce. You just needed the one name. Dekka- Yeah sure, me and Beyonce

Does he have a nickname?' Diana went on remorselessly. 'I mean, 'gaiphage' is so long. Can we call him phage? Or maybe just 'G'?

No," Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch." "Good," Sanjit said. "Good? Why good?" "Because when you hold my hand, I don't want it to be work for you.