Top 100 Griffith Quotes
#1. To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#2. There are many ups and downs in everyone's life and when you're an actor usually you're a very sensitive human being.
Melanie Griffith
#3. You only got one life. You can't sit around waiting for your next life to begin.
Melanie Griffith
#4. I've just recently gotten divorced so I have a whole new horizon to conquer.
Melanie Griffith
#5. Alison's grandfather told her,'To err is human, to forgive divine
Diane Griffith
#6. On the square ... I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith,
Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.
Positive K
#7. We cannot make up for failure in our devotional life by redoubling energy in service. We shall never take people beyond our own spiritual attainment.
William Griffith Thomas
#9. Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.
D.W. Griffith
#10. I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.
D.W. Griffith
#12. Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.
Griffith Edwards
#13. I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere.
Melanie Griffith
#14. Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember ... a child is listening.
Mary Griffith
#15. Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.
Andy Griffith
#17. I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I'm left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place.
Melanie Griffith
#18. The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#19. She liked time at the edges of things
the edge of the crowd, the edge of the pool, the edge of the wood
where all must pass but none quite belonged.
Nicola Griffith
#21. I would just like to be able to give to people through acting. If I can entertain people by being somebody else and allow somebody to feel something, then that makes me feel good.
Melanie Griffith
#22. Would it insult you if I used your alphabet? I don't think I could start from scratch.
Clay Griffith
#23. The Holy Spirit is the source of spiritual unity! He is the Fount of all true joy! We as missionaries need the fullness of this joy. Without it our work will be a burden to us, and we shall toil on with the hearts of slaves; and the hearts of slaves are never strong.
Griffith John
#24. I'm tired of being considered a lesbian writer, tired of being a science-fiction writer, tired of being a thriller writer. I'm a writer. Period. Story matters to me.
Nicola Griffith
#25. If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.
Nicola Griffith
#26. Sorry, but I'd rather sit home eating Vienna sausage straight from the can watching Andy Griffith reruns than be forced to dine with that Oompa-Loompa!
Piper Faust
#27. We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
William Griffith Wilson
#28. There is no chance of night baseball ever being popular in the bigger cities. People there are educated to see the best there is and will stand for only the best. High-class baseball cannot be played at night under artificial light.
Clark Griffith
#29. I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.
Bill Griffith
#30. Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
Bill Griffith
#32. John Taylor Gatto's extraordinary book, Dumbing Us Down. Check out Mary Griffith's The Unschooling Handbook and Grace Llewellyn's The Teenage Liberation Handbook. Take a look at Home Education Magazine and its website.
Daniel H. Pink
#33. Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
D.W. Griffith
#35. I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#36. Religion has been an essential part of my life ever since I was baptised. My personal journey with God has been very important throughout my life.
Andy Griffith
#38. They were connected: the world, her body, her face. Perhaps she should not be asking who she was but, rather, of what she was a part.
Nicola Griffith
#39. No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.
Anastasia Griffith
#40. INTOLERANCE (1916) Griffith's design for this film is to juxtapose fours stories from different periods of history that illustrate 'Love's struggle throughout the ages'.
Steven Jay Schneider
#41. There are days when I should be writing, and I am so tired that I can't. And the fatigue also affects my emotions, making me not even care about writing. There are days when I wake up so angry I can barely speak, and also days when I am so sad.
Nicola Griffith
#42. But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.
Bill Griffith
#43. Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the thing is all long done.
D.W. Griffith
#44. I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.
Andy Griffith
#46. Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.
Nanci Griffith
#47. Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.
Thomas Griffith
#48. I'm not desperate anymore or feeling weird about myself because I'm not working in this business. I'm older and wiser, and there's a lot more to life.
Melanie Griffith
#49. I don't belong to anyone! I'm not a thing, to be kept or ordered or driven to such despair that I open my own veins. Look at me, Aoife. Look at me! I'm a woman.
Nicola Griffith
#50. I feel like you can do all the research in the world, but when you start putting that costume on, put your hair in a wig and walk into those sets, that's where the visceral reaction is. It's no longer in the head. It's in the body.
Anastasia Griffith
#51. Energy literacy means you can see the waste in disposing of a plastic bottle after you've drunk water from some place on the other side of the world.
Saul Griffith
#52. There's the Hollywood sign; there's Griffith Observatory; there's the great, amazing Los Angeles Basin. It's 465 square miles of insanity and the best food on the planet.
Robert Crais
#54. I wanted to prove that I could play something else, but there were 249 episodes out there of 'Mayberry,' and it was aired every day. It was hard to escape.
Andy Griffith
#55. He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for.
Thomas Griffith
#56. Just to be seen strolling to or from a helicopter on the White House lawn, shouting an evasive answer to Sam Donaldson, must seem to the Reagans not quite satisfactory enough of a 7 PM presence, and this inane scene certainly galls the press.
Thomas B. Griffith
#57. I don't think we really think about where we get our equality from. There is a sense of feminism and women become passe, in my opinion.
Anastasia Griffith
#58. I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.
Melanie Griffith
#59. Climate Change led to the Vikings dominating Europe for several hundred years.
Morgan Griffith
#61. I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
Nanci Griffith
#62. It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.
Nanci Griffith
#63. Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
Spike Lee
#64. People want to think that staying in shape costs a lot of money. They couldn't be more wrong. It doesn't cost anything to walk. And it's probably a lot cheaper to go to the corner store and buy vegetables than take a family out for fast food.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#65. The agony of being unable to answer the question of why are we the way we are, divisively instead of cooperatively behaved, has been the particular burden of life. It has been our species' particular affliction or condition - our human condition.
Jeremy Griffith
#67. The seeds of greatness are sown in ordinary soil.
Leah Griffith
#69. Terry then said: 'Use your own judgment, and do what you think best if you strike the trail; and, whatever you do, Custer, hold on to your wounded.
Patrick Griffith
#70. Well, do a good day's work and act like somebody.
Andy Griffith
#71. To the public, the press is not David among Goliaths; it has become one of the Goliaths, Big Media, a combination of powerful television networks, large magazine groups and newspaper chains that are near-monopolies.
Thomas B. Griffith
#73. I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.
Bill Griffith
#74. She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.
Bill Griffith
#75. When a man carries a gun all the time, the respect he thinks he's getting might really be fear. So I don't carry a gun because I don't want the people of Mayberry to fear a gun. I'd rather they respect me.
Andy Griffith
#76. When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#77. Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.
Nanci Griffith
#78. Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.
Bill Griffith
#80. I long to be filled with divine knowledge, divine wisdom, divine love, divine holiness, to the utmost extent of my capacity. I want to feel that all the currents of my soul are interfused in one channel deep and wide, and all flowing towards the heart of Christ.
Griffith John
#81. You're like a sharp bright piece broken from a star. Too sharp, too bright, sometimes, for your own good.
Nicola Griffith
#82. Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday.
Melanie Griffith
#83. Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece.
Bill Griffith
#84. He knew she suspected he was up to something, but being the good wife that she was, she didn't question him further. Just gave him a hug and a kiss goodbye and told him to be careful.
Kathryn Meyer Griffith
#85. Everything went downhill after Lillian [Gish] left me.
D.W. Griffith
#86. It's not about my career now. It's just about finding great work and having a good time.
Melanie Griffith
#87. I am proud of my connections to Carolina and pleased to know that some results from a lifetime of work on television, film, stage and recordings will have a permanent home in Chapel Hill.
Andy Griffith
#88. My oldest brother was in 'The Andy Griffith Show' as one of Opie's friends.
Suzanne Crough
#89. The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for the next 50 or 100 years.
Saul Griffith
#90. The girls in 'Downton Abbey' do what they do so well, which is make it so natural despite the fact that you're living within these constraints and taking so much from the research aspect of it.
Anastasia Griffith
#91. When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises
Jeremy Griffith
#94. Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the horrors of war and at that time, I wanted to be a war photographer, based off his work.
Jamel Shabazz
#95. Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
D.W. Griffith
#96. Remember how small the world was before I came along? I brought it all to life: I moved the whole world onto a 20-foot screen.
D.W. Griffith
#98. In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.
Saul Griffith
#99. People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#100. Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race
Jeremy Griffith
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