W. E. B. Griffin Quotes

You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.

I don't picture myself as a normal person when I play football, and I don't think anyone else pictures me that way as well.

I try to associate myself as just being myself - and being a person, an American citizen, going out there every day and just trying to be successful.

But still, the other voice, the intuitive, returns, like grass forcing its way through concrete.

We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed. The work is a meditation. They simply begin again.

I love to write humor. If I could make a living doing it that is all I would write. The happiest period of my life is when I was writing the sequels to "MASH". I was able to ridicule everyone.

Without discipline a body of men becomes rabble. Rabble dies, either on the battlefield or in a POW camp.

I was raised right — I talk about people behind their backs. It's called manners.

Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum.

It's cool to actually have my own trading card.

We're not going to think about what's happened in the past.

All the proffered evidence that America was attacked by Muslims on 9/11, when subjected to critical scrutiny, appears to have been fabricated.

My favorite date movie is Scarface. There's nothing like taking a woman to see Scarface. It gets the panties off quick.

It was frustrating because I didn't do anything, ... I was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and he decided to punish me. I couldn't do anything about it.

Life is hollow without health and freedom. To seek one while ignoring the other is folly.

The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.

I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking, I want to explode.

I did feel very sexy and desirable. Those prisoners looked at me like no man ever did. I don't care how many people they killed.

I prefer big Oprah. I know Oprah wants to be skinny Oprah, but her head is too gigantic to fit on a skinny body. She has to accept that, like Kirstie Alley, she was meant to be... ahm... voluptuous!

There won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.

The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will.

We are all the same. We have the same hopes, fears, strengths, and weaknesses.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

I think listeners are hungry to hear quality.

My dad served 21 years and my mom did 13, so through that process, they taught me that I always have to give back.

We keep secrets from ourselves that all along we know.

Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.

When you are angry, you make bad decisions in direct proportion to the level of your anger.

It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking

I was always chasing Taylor, trying to keep up with him.

The people that are surrounding me have my best interest.

Excessive caution can sometimes lead one as far astray as rash enthusiasm.

You have to know the human condition to get that many people to all respond at the same time to the same subject. You gotta understand humanity in order to portray it.

I never wrote a joke in my life. I just get on stage and let it flow.

When governments claim to derive their authority from any source other than the governed, it always leads to the destruction of liberty.

The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.

When the Goths are at the gates, forming study groups and praying for deliverance is not effective defense.

I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly.

Well, Jon Hamm isn't a real celebrity.

I don't necessarily buy any key to the future of happiness, but I need a little place in the sun sometimes or I think I will die.

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

But darling, I wish you well On your way to the wishing well

Respect talent. Get respect where respect is due, but don't be caught up in yourself where you do things obliviously and not pay attention to what is going on.

One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.

What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

A lot of stars don't have a sense of humor.