C.L. Grant Quotes

Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished.

Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you’ll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.

I will raid the arsenal and start a war to end slavery.

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

Jesse has a new dog. You may have noticed that his former pets have been peculiarly unfortunate. When this dog dies every employee in the White House will be at once discharged.

Hopefully, the 27th time's the charm!

Only nothing is impossible.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

It's about bums on seats. If nobody wants to listen to what you are doing, it kind of defeats the purpose really, doesn't it?

I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols.

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.

You do your best, you do all this stuff, but the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

Nothing beats a little cash in a bear market, of course, and the oldest form of cash is gold.

Superman loves everyone. He's like Jesus except he punches people.

Credit is money of the mind.

The Fed can change how things look, not how things are

Strangely enough I'm better on a stage. I love that I feel like I blossom in front of a whole bunch of people.

I was a big Superman fan, growing up. I've always been a big superhero fan.

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

I quite like Pilates now. I have a Pilates girl in every city.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment.

My dad used to have to open the second bottle of wine in the loo in case Mum heard the cork coming out.

It's so horrible to realize you're just the same as everyone else, isn't it?

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.

I think we're on too many government watch lists. We'd better let this one go.

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

No power on earth, no power beneath the earth, will ever prevent you or me or any Latter-day Saint from being saved, except ourselves

I have a secret weapon. And it could have something to do with special robot knowledge.

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

The accomplishments in college and even in the pros are more in my mind because you constantly see Duke on TV during basketball season. You constantly see the NBA.

I am proud of my family. I am proud of my Duke championships and all my Duke teammates. And, I am proud I never lost a game against the Fab Five.

Teaching by precept, without example, is mighty poor teaching.

Remember it's all just a mirror we made to see ourselves in.

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.

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

I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.

People don't realize the amount of stress you put on your body both physically and mentally from just the wear and tear of a season.

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

You can't kill the truth.

No man can teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ under the inspiration of the living God and with power from on high unless he is living it.

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

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.

Why am I in Hell? It hurts. It hurts all the time. Why am I in Hell? I just want to go home and lie on the bed the way I used to. Please take me home.

I have no animosity against any living soul.

Being an only child, my mother reared me very carefully.

She was scared. Scared of dying.

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