C.L. Grant Quotes

He didn't have much strength to offer, but what he did have was hers without question.

I'm an advocate for buying few, but very good quality pieces of clothing, and if you do that you need to take care of them.

Casual to me implies a lack of care or thought.

I loved the filthy, gorgeous rawness of Charles Jeffrey. You just wish you could be young enough and cool enough to be part of his gang. That's what fashion's all about.

I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.

Well, it's true that I've never been solitary, although I spend a lot of time alone. I've never felt lonely or been shy.

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

I don't think it's the case that 'posh actors' get more work than others.

I like fixing things.

Actors always think that others are getting more work than them. In my case, they usually are.

I would still like to go to the moon before I die.

I watch TV all the time. Everything.

When I came to England, the first director I met was Charles Sturridge, who told me, 'You speak like somebody out of the 1950s.

Unless you are an enormous name, you never stop auditioning.

It's well known that actors are lousy writers.

You feel your game's raised by working with the best people.

I suppose this work is part of the devil that is in us all.

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home

The colored man has been accustomed all his life to lean on the white man, and if a good officer is placed over him, he will learn readily and make a good soldier.

England and the United States are natural allies, and should be the best of friends.

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.

What's it like?""Death? It's like being on holiday with a group of Germans.

Don't be ashamed for lack of knowledge. The real crime is having but not using it

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

It is our responsibility to discover our talents, to accept them as from God, to develop them through education and training, and to use them for His glory.

That's your solution? Have a cookie?

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.

Scared people did scary things sometimes,

The prospect of a certain loss brings the go system online.

When we're determined to reach an objective, it's the gap between where we are and where we aspire to be that lights a fire under us.

Without a sense of urgency, people ... won't make needed sacrafices. Instead they cling to the status quo and resist.' - Quoting John Kotter

... superb presentations - start by establishing "what is: here's the status quo." Then, they "compare that to what could be, " making "that gap as big as possible" - Quoting Nancy Duarte

By looking on the bright side, we'll activate enthusiasm and turn on the go system.

Instead of courage' management guru Tom Peters recommends fostering 'a level of fury with the status quo such that one cannot not act.

I was tired of being a haunted house' he said. 'Thank you for coming home.

Mates such as they must stand by one another

i have never advocated war except as a mean of peace

All they had to do was let go, and they'd be free. But they held on.

Step up to red alert."Sir, are you absolutely sure? It does mean changing the bulb." - Rimmer & Kryten, "Red Dwarf

I have never met a politician who has exceeded my low expectations of them.

The prerequisite for a banker is Strait As and no talent.

I have a face for radio and a voice for writing.

Exceed expectations" is such a lispy term. I hope that it never infiltrates the bedroom or sport.

What is the death of a soldier even off duty of an occupying army walking in an occupied territory against the death of a little boy screaming in terror in his father's arms Where is the equivalence

The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader." - Quoting Derek Sivers

History belongs to the dead... Discovery belongs to the Living.(Professor Alistair Dawkins)

We make history every day, Professor. The question is whether or not you'll be remembered for it.Grant McKingsley

Marriages last because the people in them want to be married

If love makes the world go around, then money greases the axles.