C. L. Gray Quotes

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

Fear owns me because I let it. Because I obsess over it, name it, raise it, and nurture it to become perfect. It is one of the few things in my life that I can control.

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives

I wonder if killing yourself is the only thing you can control in your entire life, and that's why it's a sin. Because you're beating God at his own game.

As far as I am concerned, freedom summer never really ended.

I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs.

Darren Fletcher is the type of player who would walk over hot coals to play for his country, and he has done

Can storied urn, or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can Honour's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flatt'ry soothe the dull cold ear of Death?

The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.

I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Rich with the spoils of time.

Well you can't win the lottery if you don't have a ticket

If you gave Arsene Wenger eleven players and told him to pick his team, this would be it.

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it would just pop and vanish, just explode.

As a child I had dealt with a lot of loss and grief. I was constantly losing my parents, losing my home, constantly moving around, living with this stranger, that stepfather, or whatever.

I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.

The nuclear industry is currently undergoing a rebirth. The uranium market will remain tight for at least the next three years.

I would love to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I'd love to be on that. A lot of my favorite shows get canceled really early on. I liked 'Twin Peaks.' If I had a time machine I'd be in that.

France has given us the best filmmakers and food.

I'm really demanding. No girl really wants just a guy. You want a prince, you want Jesus. So when he comes around and his name is, like, Steve, what are you supposed to do?

I want to be as famous as midnight. As powerful as a gun. As loved as a pizza.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

Even things that are true can be proved.

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.

Live like there's no tomorrow. Love like you're on borrowed time. Always remember, It's good to be alive.

There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain.

You are a trophy of God's grace. He has future accomplishments with your name written on them.

Substance and content over style and hype any day.

Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.

Local churches are ten times more segregated than the neighborhoods they are in and they are twenty times more segregated than the schools than the nearby schools.

Jesus' epic work through his sinless life, atoning death, resurrection, and ascension, and the sending of the Spirit, was so that God could have an ethnically diverse family of Jews and Gentiles.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.

As to posterity, I may ask what has it ever done to oblige me?

I hadn't had a perfect moment yet. And it's very important for me to have perfect moments in exotic countries like that... it kind of lets you know when it's time to go home.

Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth.

Any cat that misses a mouse pretends it was aiming for the dead leaf.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.