Grain Quotes

One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.

Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

One doesn't know one's self what grain one sows, that works on and on, through one and through many lives, transmitted from heart to heart and from lips to lips.

The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, sometimes you've got to go against the grain.

I only shoot on film. I like the quality, the grain and the imperfections. It offers me something much more rewarding than any digital camera can give me. I believe the extra expense is worth it.

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music.

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands kind with grain.

Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.

Dalton Trumbo actually was [ a hypocrite], because he liked his wealth, which was against the grain of being a Communist. I put title cards at the head of the film that explains the context.

I always listen to records that I've been a part of with a grain of salt.

Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune.

Sometimes I just think people are haters. And if they're haters, you can listen to what they have to say but you have to take it with a grain of salt.

The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society.

A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.

The media, is media. You always have to take the media with a grain of salt. You can't believe everything you read.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.

Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain.

Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.

Pigs and cows and chickens and people are all competing for grain.

What is the sound of one hand clapping? What is the weight of a single grain of sand? The answer is equal to my interest in the message you are about to leave. So make it short.

I'm a very un-excitable person. I always take things with a grain of salt, I'm always very even-keeled, and I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Any good parody takes a grain of truth and exaggerates it for the big screen. People ask me if I'm offended at all and I say not in the least.

Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.

I'd rather have none at all than a grain too much.

The honours system gets to grade people. Graded grains make finer rice.

I like interacting with fans and I like hearing what they say, but you have to take it all with a grain of salt.

I think we should keep the grain and export the farmers.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

I tend to go against the grain because when I start to see that everybody's trying to shock, I try not to. I just do stuff that's subtler, more emotional, and I think that shocks people.

It may take sixteen pounds of grain to make one pound of beef, but it also takes one hundred pounds of fish to make that one-pound of beef!

To make a revolution is not in the grain of our people's nature.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin' I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug Llewellyn

When I first read 'On the Road,' it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream.

Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.

I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

The sublime is contained in a grain of dust.

Smiles, rainbows and a grain of rice.I could survive on that!