The Grey Quotes

Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance.

Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.

Don't get your panties in such a twist... and give me back mine.

The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field.

What I actually wanted to do with my life is make a difference to the world. That led me into science very quickly.

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.

Once I've learned all those things and gotten through the hard times, I come out feeling really powerful.

The highest earthly enjoyments are but a shadow of the joy I find in reading God's Word.

The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.

If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

God and posterity will show me more favour

I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.

Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.

Friends ask you how you are and wait for an answer.

I quickly realized I had to have my own style and strategy and find my own way.

Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.

I believe the only way you can make sure that submarines will not be abused in future wars is that there should be no submarines.

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.

People don't really absorb everything they read or hear. They just look at it quickly, and then they choose to remember what they want to remember.

I'd like to think of myself as somebody who has a voice for liberating female sexuality.

I am selective, but at the same time, I want to be out there as an actor and show people my range.

I think the big evolutionary step for me is directing my own movies.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

Expectations are an evil thing.

I can be a very sarcastic person, and sometimes people take every word I say literally.

But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies.

I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

By brain is meant, in the first instance, something more than the pink-grey jelly of the anatomist. It is, even to a scientist, the organ of imagination.

My mom always puts a grapefruit in my stocking. I like grapefruit, but why put it in a stocking like it's a gift? It's almost as bad as coal.

Somehow, it seems that the sadder a song is, the happier I feel. The release of emotions that many would label as 'negative' is actually a liberating process for me.

I'll always be this once-famous actress nobody recognizes... because of a nose job.

I have a very eclectic group of fans. I have fans that love me for me and who have never even seen my adult work. They just like my music, or they just like me.

I don't want to be looked at. I really want to be a home body.

The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.

I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

But, God knows best, I concluded.

Journeying through secret doors, curving corridors, and connecting rooms into the mountain was like being digested by the different organs of a deity.

I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day.

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar.