S. Gregory Quotes

The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.

The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support?

I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

In "Twilight," the narratives are more literal, and the event is much more spectacular. The pictures in "Beneath the Roses" are much more psychological and grounded in reality.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.

America is 5 percent of the world's population and consumes 96 percent of the world's hard drugs.

Ah, if I were dictator I'd have poets throwing bombs!

Sorry, honey, but I haven't worn a nightgown in years.

Some tools of thought are so blunt that they are almost useless; others are so sharp that they are dangerous. But the wise man will have the use of both kinds.

I have loved justice and hated inequity; and therefore I die in exile. [Lat., Dilexi justitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio.]

Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give

My belief is, you know, certain things have to be explained that's never been explained.

Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win.

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?

Every act of communication is an act of translation.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Mine is to chew on the appropriate texts and make them delectable.

Play is the establishment and exploration of relationship.

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.

A Klaner KKK is a cat who gets out of bed in the middle of the night and takes his sheet with him.

Don't have a high school diploma? You're in my Cabinet. Why? For 200 years, a lot of Cabinets have existed in our government. Powerful men. Well-educated. So let's try something totally new.

Once I realised the value of making people laugh, I got very good at it. Fast.

Things have to be done fast in America , and therefore therapy has to be brief.

Our teaching may contain nothing impious, nothing diluted.

The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler.

A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.

You have this ambition to make something perfect, exactly right. Of course, necessarily, it fails in some way and you have to accept that for what it is, and then you're on to the next thing.

Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

The NAACP is a wonderful organization . . . But do you realize if tomorrow morning we had complete integration, all them cats would be outta work?

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

You know, I always say white is not a colour, white is an attitude, and if you haven't got trillions of dollars in the bank that you don't need, you can't be white.

The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.

quoting reminds me there are other people in the world besides only me. And other thoughts besides mine, and other ways of thinking.

I grew up really loving horror movies and genre movies. I was a big fan of Universal Monsters movies, read Famous Monsters magazine. I built monster models and creature effects...

Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.

To me, poetry is about survival first of all. Survival of the individual self, survival of the emotional life.

I got a series with the WB next year. We start shooting in July. It's going to be called Safe Harbor, and it's an hour show. It's a Spelling show and will follow 7th Heaven.

The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.

Feather to fire,fire to blood Blood to bone,bone to marrow Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow...

Just because one man calls him Allah and another calls him God is no reason for believers to be enemies.

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.'

America has the mightiest military on the planet, and they didn't get there with entertainers.

Christ is born: glorify Him. Christ comes from heaven: go out to meet Him. Christ descends to earth: let us be raised on high.

All experience is subjective.