Grasps Performance Quotes

#1. I don't think I ever modeled myself after a singer. I've more or less copied the styles of horn-tooters right from the start.

Sarah Vaughan

#2. He was going to think about her and think about her until she disappeared.

Ethan Canin

#3. Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*

Marianne Williamson

#4. Is it me," he says, "or does she seem a bit weird to you?

Beckie Stevenson

#5. Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.

Matthew McConaughey

#6. No one should die when they're 50.

Henry Rollins

#7. For most of the millions of people who watch TED videos at the office, it's a middlebrow diversion and a source of factoids to use on your friends. Except TED thinks it's changing the world, like if 'This American Life' suddenly mistook itself for Doctors Without Borders.

Alex Pareene

#8. To struggle is difficult but to surrender is easy. Surrender is the beginning of devotion.

Bhakti Charu Swami

#9. I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.

Clemence Poesy

#10. (and affectedly, bookishly, artificially idyllic too)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#11. Jodie Foster may continue to outwardly ignore me for the rest of my life, but I have made her one of the most famous actresses in the world.

John Hinckley Jr.

#12. I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.

Lenny Kravitz

#13. I knew that now - that love wasn't something you could do away with, no matter how hard you tried.

Jenny Han

#14. I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.

Junot Diaz