S. Gregory Quotes

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough.

I directed an episode of Touched by an Angel a couple of months ago, and I will be doing more of that. I just like to keep a bit of variety going; it keeps things interesting.

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.

Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.

As a movie fan, my number one goal is to continue to learn from what I've done and make special effects as precise and clean as they can be.

Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

Sean Chen has been an audience favorite from the early rounds. With his floppy hair and outstanding stage presence combined with an extraordinary technique and musicianship, this is little wonder.

Love is the harmony of two souls singing together.

I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.

Our human weakness is protected by the assistance of the Angels and...in all our perils, provided faith remain with us, we are defended by the aid of spiritual powers.

Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons A and B.

It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.

Randomness is the true foundation of mathematics.

I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian].

No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

Because no retreat from the world can mask what is in your face.

More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

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

One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

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

The Godhead is, to speak concisely, undivided there is one mingling of Light, as it were of three suns joined to each other.

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.

You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.

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.

When the chemistry is right, all the experiments work.

The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.

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

I started all over again on page 1, circling the 262 pages like a vulture looking for live flesh to scavenge.

The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.

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

In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion.

It takes madness to find out madness.

I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.

I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two so they can coexist in a kind of mutual uncertainty.

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

There are no monotone "values" in biology.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

Every breath is a resurrection.

When you're a young poet, reading is a search for your lost family.

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

Beauty is like life itself: a dawn mist the sun burns off. It gives no peace, no rest.

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.