S. Gregory Quotes

Making that final commitment is really hard. Because once you decide to move forward, it becomes a whole process which is really hard to stop.

What's important to me is that there's a necessary alienation between me and the subject. I don't want to know them well. I don't want to have any intimate contact with them.

When you run a company, you need to be pretty open-minded. There are a lot of different views on faith, on religion, on many different issues, and you can't let your own faith be the barometer.

Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

Sometimes you have to lose to win

Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.

They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.

You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.

A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

Ask people for help. You'll be all right. Don't worry. It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun.

One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?

I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.

There's no such thing as forever.

Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.

Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.

but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.

It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time

If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.

None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

I guess, is we are not saying, "Look, William Shakespeare's written a critique of modern Africa." What we're saying is that we've shifted the metaphor to make it more immediate.

Really what Brutus and Cassius do by assassinating Caesar, is open up a vacuum into which much more ruthless people run. Julius Caesar is an amazingly contemporary, resonant, politically astute play.

Time for Tolerance,Equality, and Acceptance, It's allways TEA time with my Friends.

There are realms of life where the concepts of sense and nonsense do not apply.

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.

Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

The last thing people want is a surprise, these days.

Digital held no romance for me at all. I hated it. I miss my big cameras. The working process, I miss it.

There are a lot of decisions to make, creatively. Now, with digital, you can really be the author of your own work. From the beginning to the end of the process, you control everything.

A photographer is responsible for creating a climate in which they can do their best work.

Shoot what you can't help but shoot

When you give to your mate, you give to your children. There is no better way to teach love than to practice love. Kids are much better at watching and emulating than they are at listening.

Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments.

Somewhere along the line, many Americans relegated the media to a notch on the morality scale only slightly above that of child molesters.

The ban on assault weapons has decreased gun violence in Baltimore not one iota. That's because few, if any, of the shootings were done with assault weapons.

The fingerprinting requirement affected only law-abiding citizens that want to buy firearms. It had no impact on Baltimore's criminal element at all.

Greening school design provides an extraordinarily cost-effective way to enhance student learning, reduce health and operational costs and, ultimately, increase school quality and competitiveness.