Top 100 Griffin Quotes
#1. We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues.
John Howard Griffin
#2. Grab me now and do naughty things to my no no places.
S.C. Stephens
#3. 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.
Adele Griffin
#4. There are people who own cars and are getting free cell phones. A car helps one find a job, too. Where do you draw the line?
Timothy Griffin
#5. When I started performing, I played acoustic music, partly because that way you don't have to worry about interacting too much with other people creatively. Asserting myself in that way was not really a strong point for me.
Patty Griffin
#6. Didn't it say it all that Griffin couldn't make it to his own bloody front door without a cane? For all his was mahogany topped with a dull ruby, and hid in its innards a vicious blade, in the end it was an old man's stick.
Eloisa James
#10. You're right, Jeff did," Sweet ruefully conceded, as he tossed a forkful
James J. Griffin
#11. The sincerity with which you do things, that's what shapes your life.
Blake Griffin
#12. There's something wrong with your back" ...
"There is?"
Griffin grinned at him. "My welts aren't on it.
Tiffany Reisz
#13. The federal government should only be providing services for emergencies. You and I, taxpayers, shouldn't be paying for cell phones so someone can have a social life. I just don't think it's appropriate.
Timothy Griffin
#14. Dogs are animals that poop in public and you're supposed to pick it up. After a week of doing this, you've got to ask yourself, "Who's the real master in this relationship?"
Anthony Griffin
#15. 10. Both the North Tower and the South Tower collapsed just as their respective fires were dying down, even though this meant that the South Tower, which had been hit second, collapsed first.
David Ray Griffin
#16. I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.
Robert Griffin III
#17. Most everything means nothing, except some things that mean everything.
Patty Griffin
#18. Sometimes people think it's what you say when you're in a huge group that makes you a leader. But sometimes it's the one-on-one conversations you have with guys individually, just getting to know them. I think I've done that a lot. Not intentionally - it just happens.
Robert Griffin III
#19. It is easy to look backward and cast blame on others, but more difficult to gaze ahead and take responsibility for your own decisions and your own future. - GRIFFIN HARKONNEN, final dispatch from Arrakis It
Brian Herbert
#21. wasn't adaptable. She needed the city. She needed congestion. She needed masses of people where she could lose herself and simply exist, anonymously, without the constant scrutiny of others. Courtney
Laura Griffin
#22. Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that's just part of the deal. I'm not really sure what's going to come out of my mouth.
Kathy Griffin
#23. Miss Lappet was not the murderer.
Neither were Miss Hopkins or The One.
It was Miss Griffin.
Robin Stevens
#24. I found a great deal of relief and excitement watching comics when I was very young. My grandmother was very into them and so was my grandfather. They had a profound effect on me, so I just found myself watching comedians on the after-school shows: Merv Griffin and that kind of stuff.
Marc Maron
#25. I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.
Griffin Dunne
#26. Even in the grimmest of circumstances, a shift in perspective can create startling change.
Susan Griffin
#27. Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.
Griffin Dunne
#28. Whenever you can relate to the population of the team that you play for, I think it makes it that much more special.
Robert Griffin III
#29. I think I'm starting to figure out when I need to get rid of it and when I don't need to.
Robert Griffin III
#30. Marriage,love and commitment does not give a man permission to act like Julius Caesar by pushing his partner into sexual promiscuity like a concubine for his own sexual pleasures.
Sheree' Griffin
#31. When I see you, I smile. When I touch you, I feel you. When I kiss you, I love you!
Kathy Griffin
#34. There is a circle of humanity, he told me, and I can feel its warmth. But I am forever outside.
Susan Griffin
#35. We've got teams and other countries have teams. Right now, we are going to their countries; we're finding the best athletes; we're bringing them to our team. We're training them, we're making them awesome, and sending them back to beat us. We've got to stop that.
Timothy Griffin
#36. The spiritual experience isn't one of filling ourselves up - with either religious or intellectual beliefs - but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.
Kevin Griffin
#37. I don't feel I'm at liberty to speak about the actions of any one CEO. That's not fair; given CEOs have duties to their shareholders.
Kenneth C. Griffin
#38. Or maybe I was just in progress. Hatching another character for another extraordinary story, yet untold.
Adele Griffin
#39. Beneath this warm flesh beats the heart of a compassionate man, one who's fought his whole life to fulfill his people's dream. Just because you feel the need to lean on someone, to accept someone else's strength for a little while doesn't make you weak.
Kylie Griffin
#40. That's what I loved about Temptation Island. I don't even know why they did it.
Kathy Griffin
#41. To this day, the behavior of straight men is something I've never been able to wrap my head around. Have you ever met one? They're really weird. Sometimes they want to have sex without A Chorus Line playing in the background. Yuck. How is that even possible?
Kathy Griffin
#42. I also don't have a desire to be on the A-list. I feel more people can relate to the D-list than the A-list.
Kathy Griffin
#43. The nation's first experiment with the income tax was tried at this time; another violation of the Constitution.
G. Edward Griffin
#44. Let's get on with it. Pick a position. Trust me, no matter how acrobatic, we can do it."
"No wall sex though, please," Griffin requested ... "Nora's a lot heavier than she looks.
Tiffany Reisz
#45. People can't measure the amount of heart you have and how much you're willing to fight for something.
Blake Griffin
#46. I don't actually have to think very hard when I'm writing. I mean, there are times where it's a task, and you have to plug away and plug away. But then there are times when a song writes itself in 15 minutes, and you're just struggling to keep up with it.
Patty Griffin
#47. There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up.
Robert Griffin III
#49. Basketball has always and will always come first to me but it's also given me the chance to do really fun things and work with really fun people and its something I'm lucky to have.
Blake Griffin
#50. She had an incredible amount of admiration for these talented men who dedicated themselves to training and practicing and honing their skills in order to be part of one of the most elite fighting forces in the world.
Laura Griffin
#51. Fears are to be faced, not denied, and life is to be lived, not mourned.
Adele Griffin
#52. I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly.
Kathy Griffin
#53. You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.
Robert Griffin III
#54. It's always been my philosophy: Turn the page. If something falls through, turn the page. It's over with, get used to it, get on with it. Very simple. It's always worked for me.
Merv Griffin
#55. You really like putting it all on display, don't you? No editing."
"I'm not playing games with you, Sam. I have no intention of hiding what I want; I won't make that mistake again.
Genna Rulon
#56. I think I've proven that I'm throw-first, and then run if I need to.
Robert Griffin III
#57. He'd never known a girl who was so beautiful and intense at once.
Kass Morgan
#58. SEALs, like the name said, were trained to operate in all conditions - SEa, Air, Land. But Stuffy Victorian Hotel Lobby hadn't made the list.
Laura Griffin
#59. Poetry is a good medium for revolutionary hope.
Susan Griffin
#60. I turn back to Griffin. His expression is stony and unreadable, although if I had to take a wild guess, I'd say it was tending toward ominous.
Amanda Bouchet
#61. The ability to create same day straight through processing of mutual fund trades is a matter of will.
Kenneth C. Griffin
#62. Secondly, as a result of this political favoritism, the FDA has become a primary factor in that formula whereby cartel-oriented companies in the food and drug industry are able to use the police powers of government to harass or destroy their free-market competitors.
G. Edward Griffin
#63. His insights have come to him through a crack in the veneer of civilization, which was also a crack in his own soul. He had the courage to look in this direction.
Susan Griffin
#64. Will leans forward, pulls off his mask, and kisses my forehead. "I'm glad I was the one to save you this time
" he whispers.
Bethany Griffin
#65. All across my home state, throughout the South, and around the country, LGBT people and their families are seeking basic respect and dignity. This victory is an essential step on the journey toward full equality for all.
Chad Griffin
#66. One can find traces of every life in each life.
Susan Griffin
#67. Roger King is, without a doubt, the greatest salesman in the history of anything. And I don't ever limit him just to television. He could sell you anything.
Merv Griffin
#68. I don't like doing movies, period. Movies are hard. I like TV.
Kathy Griffin
#69. They really just taught me at an early age the values of hard work. Both my parents are two of the hardest working people that I know, so that was a big foundation for me and something I really cherish and it really helped me to grow up in that kind of household.
Blake Griffin
#70. Not that I was morbidly obese or anything. But I guess I was hanging on the hope that one day I might accidentally whittle down to my inner toothpick.
Adele Griffin
#71. Mom's a hypochondriac, too, so the best part was that every week she would get the disease that the medical shows were dramatizing. I'll never forget, they did an episode on sickle cell anemia, which as far as I know, is almost exclusively an African-American affliction.
Kathy Griffin
#72. A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. If it was up to him, Cesar Millan would be up here with that damn dog. So all I can say is, 'suck it, Jesus! This award is my God now'!
Kathy Griffin
#73. It was sweaty Whitney (Houston) in Central Park. She knew that park pretty well. Every bush!
Kathy Griffin
#74. Abuse Is Not Love;Love Is Unconditional Without Stipulations and Restrictions.
Sheree' Griffin
#75. But the best reason to pray is that God is really there. In praying, our unbelief gradually starts to melt. God moves smack into the middle of even an ordinary day. He is no longer someone we theorize about. He is someone we want to be near.
Emilie Griffin
#76. No one teaches you how to do this. How do you let go of someone who you love so much?
Kathy Griffin
#77. I'm a big fan of Katt Williams, Jim Gaffigan, Louie CK, Margaret Cho, Kathy Griffin, Rich Vas, Joey Vega and Matt Claybrooks.
Chris Rock
#78. Every organization has two choices. Choice one is to grow. Choice two is to die. If you decide not to grow, it's a clear-cut message to talented people that it's time to leave.
Kenneth C. Griffin
#79. Ish #153 Artificial plants grow best in artificial light.
Regina Griffin
#80. I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies ... we categorically separate mind and body and emotion and intellect.
Susan Griffin
#81. President Obama's policies have been categorical failures for our country. Unemployment is over nine percent, our deficits are growing, and small businesses are being burdened with regulations.
Timothy Griffin
#82. The day I think about throwing the ball away at the beginning of a play, I should stop playing.
Robert Griffin III
#83. Mental toughness must be developed before you start fighting because you don't want to be that guy who quits in the ring.
Forrest Griffin
#85. Ish #303 It's a street food vendor! Stop asking for the health score rating.
Regina Griffin
#86. For life is magic, magic is life, the left-over life we don't even notice we're living.
Kate Griffin
#87. There's far more that goes into being a professional athlete than being a college athlete. So many differences that people don't realize. It's not just about playing football and getting paid to do it. There's a lot of things that you have to deal with.
Robert Griffin III
#88. I can say whatever I want. So do not bring the kids. It's definitely rated R.
Kathy Griffin
#89. It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.
Griffin Dunne
#90. It's just that I love you and I can't seem to get past it." He smiled down at her. "You're really hard to love, but even harder to get over.
R.L. Griffin
#92. Every time I deny myself I commit a kind of suicide.
Susan Griffin
#93. Hours trickle by, and I wilt. The magic isn't here for me tonight. I can't get away from the heavy feeling of being me. I want to blend in, to be someone besides myself, someone who is part of something secret and subversive and exciting.
Bethany Griffin
#94. Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity.
Kate Griffin
#95. Teams want me to do something stupid. You want to get to the point where nothing affects you, where you control them.
Blake Griffin
#96. New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.
Griffin Dunne
#97. Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.
Andrew Griffin
#98. As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.
Griffin Dunne
#99. ought to be capable of, Cait stepped through the doorway into the overly
Patience Griffin
#100. When the griffin moved, they fluttered so fast, they blurred and buzzed like the wings of the world's largest, most vicious hummingbird.
Rick Riordan
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