C. L. Gray Quotes

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

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

People always say that Californian women are obsessed with their appearance but I think you've got to take good care of yourself, for yourself.

Small child once you were a hope, a dream. Now you are a reality. Changing all that is to come. A love to hold our hearts forever.

My strengths—which are really quite modest—are limited to me, but with my weaknesses the possibilities are boundless.

If you don't like your wrinkles and you think Botox or surgery is going to fix it, do it and shut up. But don't keep talking about it.

The world is for those who make their dreams come true.

We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.

I think any woman can be transformed by a beautiful dress and high heels.

Successful people are successful because they form the habits of doing those things that failures don't like to do.

You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

In the end, the Tribune lost touch with the world it was supposed to reach; it mattered passionately, but almost exclusively, to those who worked for it.

Anyone who takes drugs should be hammered.

You don't buy them; they don't come in package.

Listen, if you're a defender, DO BETTER!

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.

I go where the sound of thunder is.

...there were certain chapters when I stopped writing, saw the domestic situation I was in and thought, "I don't want to face this world, let's get back to the hellish one I'm imagining.

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come nor care beyond today.

Wake in the deepest dark of night and hear the driving rain. Reach out a hand and take a paw and go to sleep again.

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.

I guess I'm just a heart-on-sleeve type of human being.

Faith in order, which is the basis of science, cannot reasonably be separated from faith in an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.

One of the best years of my life was the very last one of my career. Playing for Rangers was my dream and it meant everything to my family.

Only 13.7% of churches in America are consider multiethnic. This means that 86.3 % of churches are homogenous.

If England had Fergie, Wenger or Mourinho in charge, they would win the World Cup.

God will crush the pride out of us one way or another. He loves us, and His glory, too much not to do it.

All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.

To be famous is to be stuck in an inflexible place. But at least it is to be stuck with money.

The still small voice of gratitude.

Larry Hagman was my best friend for 35 years. He was the Pied Piper of life and brought joy to everyone he knew.

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.

It'd be cool to chipmunk-ize "The Virgin Suicides" soundtrack. All this ethereal French music, I think that would be unique to listen to.

You make a mistake, you keep going.