S. Gregory Quotes

One plus one equals both.

There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.

I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.

People aren't hiring just a picture, they're hiring someone they can work with. That plays a big role .

I never do pictures that I've done before - but I really try not to. Whenever I get an assignment I try to think how to shoot this person for this story in this magazine at this point in time.

I have to be very careful about how often I drag my family to places. They need some stability in their lives.

But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.

In a way. Magic is the act of making a wish come about. Like praying, like plotting, like herbs, like exerting your will on the world, making something happen.

We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.

The most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state.

The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.

Every day matters. I think so. I do. But I really have to work to force myself to see its value sometimes.

For Harry Potter I have all the time in the world.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.

But if we play it safe, the problem is that we may be losing out, and I believe we are.

Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.

Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out how and where next I'll be steered.

every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.

Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!

Information consists of differences that make a difference.

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and become pathogenic when implemented with modern technology.

We do not know enough about how the present will lead into the future.

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

There are no monotone "values" in biology.

The mark of the true church is an expanding witness to the presence of God.

Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are.

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.

(Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.

But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall.

It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.

There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job! And five nose running brats in love with Batman

I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.

My imagination has always been inspired by nature’s vision

Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment!

Life is a horse: either you ride it or it rides you.

...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?