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

Griffith Quotes #6630
#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

Griffith Quotes #19212
#3. You only got one life. You can't sit around waiting for your next life to begin.

Melanie Griffith

Griffith Quotes #20808
#4. I've just recently gotten divorced so I have a whole new horizon to conquer.

Melanie Griffith

Griffith Quotes #36878
#5. Alison's grandfather told her,'To err is human, to forgive divine

Diane Griffith

Griffith Quotes #37506
#6. On the square ... I'm not riffin' like Andy Griffith,
Just fed up, goin' head up, with competition.

Positive K

Griffith Quotes #42462
#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

Griffith Quotes #45087
#8. My first character was Mr. Toad.

Bill Griffith

Griffith Quotes #45805
#9. Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

D.W. Griffith

Griffith Quotes #55659
#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

Griffith Quotes #57538
#11. A full, rich drawing style is a drawback.

Bill Griffith

Griffith Quotes #62779
#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

Griffith Quotes #68247
#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

Griffith Quotes #69273
#14. Before you echo 'Amen' in your home or place of worship, think and remember ... a child is listening.

Mary Griffith

Griffith Quotes #72466
#15. Mornin' ladies, my goodness don't you look happy. Must be cuttin' somebody up pretty good.

Andy Griffith

Griffith Quotes #72671
#16. There will never be talking pictures.

D.W. Griffith

Griffith Quotes #75333
#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

Griffith Quotes #85288
#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

Griffith Quotes #86593
#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

Griffith Quotes #106610
#20. If you want to run as fast as the men, you've got to train like the men.

Florence Griffith Joyner

Griffith Quotes #117102
#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

Griffith Quotes #120417
#22. Would it insult you if I used your alphabet? I don't think I could start from scratch.

Clay Griffith

Griffith Quotes #120823
#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

Griffith Quotes #124616
#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

Griffith Quotes #130115
#25. If you have the language gift, you can use it as a tool.

Nicola Griffith

Griffith Quotes #130753
#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

Griffith Quotes #133328
#27. We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

William Griffith Wilson

Griffith Quotes #136714
#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

Griffith Quotes #144112
#29. I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

Bill Griffith

Griffith Quotes #159061
#30. Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

Bill Griffith

Griffith Quotes #160366
#31. In Spain there's the king - and then there's Antonio.

Melanie Griffith

Griffith Quotes #175847
#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

Griffith Quotes #179720
#33. Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

D.W. Griffith

Griffith Quotes #187981
#34. It is time to climb the mountains of our mind

Tim Macartney-Snape

Griffith Quotes #218360
#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

Griffith Quotes #219536
#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

Griffith Quotes #227870
#37. I like being unconventional.

Florence Griffith Joyner

Griffith Quotes #228633
#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

Griffith Quotes #231047
#39. No human being in history was all good or all bad, or all black or all white.

Anastasia Griffith

Griffith Quotes #243422
#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

Griffith Quotes #245672
#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

Griffith Quotes #247071
#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

Griffith Quotes #247822
#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

Griffith Quotes #248412
#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

Griffith Quotes #262310
#45. Are we having fun yet?

Bill Griffith

Griffith Quotes #264190
#46. Your own voice is the voice that carries you through life the best.

Nanci Griffith

Griffith Quotes #299329
#47. Journalism constructs momentarily arrested equilibriums and gives disorder an implied order. That is already two steps from reality.

Thomas Griffith

Griffith Quotes #303412
#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

Griffith Quotes #304634
#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

Griffith Quotes #314776
#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

Griffith Quotes #318442
#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

Griffith Quotes #324059
#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

Griffith Quotes #325311
#53. Dogs own space and cats own time.

Nicola Griffith

Griffith Quotes #326692
#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

Griffith Quotes #329985
#55. He loved them and cared for them, and you don't kill kids that you love and care for.

Thomas Griffith

Griffith Quotes #333234
#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

Griffith Quotes #344728
#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

Griffith Quotes #355639
#58. I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.

Melanie Griffith

Griffith Quotes #358239
#59. Climate Change led to the Vikings dominating Europe for several hundred years.

Morgan Griffith

Griffith Quotes #369237
#60. I pray hard, work hard, and leave the rest to God.

Florence Griffith Joyner

Griffith Quotes #371216
#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

Griffith Quotes #373555
#62. It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

Nanci Griffith

Griffith Quotes #380480
#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

Griffith Quotes #380858
#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

Griffith Quotes #409035
#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

Griffith Quotes #412292
#66. I've always been a very prolific writer.

Nanci Griffith

Griffith Quotes #418208
#67. The seeds of greatness are sown in ordinary soil.

Leah Griffith

Griffith Quotes #421929
#68. Most people are telling me I look horrible.

Melanie Griffith

Griffith Quotes #441381
#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

Griffith Quotes #466718
#70. Well, do a good day's work and act like somebody.

Andy Griffith

Griffith Quotes #482258
#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

Griffith Quotes #511451
#72. . . . An army cannot be run according to rules of etiquette.

Samuel B. Griffith

Griffith Quotes #516567
#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

Griffith Quotes #526487
#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

Griffith Quotes #527302
#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

Griffith Quotes #527492
#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

Griffith Quotes #532716
#77. Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

Nanci Griffith

Griffith Quotes #536507
#78. Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity.

Bill Griffith

Griffith Quotes #544168
#79. What's an opera if everyone is dead in it?

Hugh Griffith

Griffith Quotes #546525
#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

Griffith Quotes #547892
#81. You're like a sharp bright piece broken from a star. Too sharp, too bright, sometimes, for your own good.

Nicola Griffith

Griffith Quotes #548762
#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

Griffith Quotes #555627
#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

Griffith Quotes #556106
#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

Griffith Quotes #562579
#85. Everything went downhill after Lillian [Gish] left me.

D.W. Griffith

Griffith Quotes #568877
#86. It's not about my career now. It's just about finding great work and having a good time.

Melanie Griffith

Griffith Quotes #576101
#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

Griffith Quotes #577030
#88. My oldest brother was in 'The Andy Griffith Show' as one of Opie's friends.

Suzanne Crough

Griffith Quotes #577940
#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

Griffith Quotes #579913
#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

Griffith Quotes #599805
#91. When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises

Jeremy Griffith

Griffith Quotes #602438
#92. I'm not really wise. But I can be cranky.

Andy Griffith

Griffith Quotes #603055
#93. ObamaCare will ultimately destroy valuable jobs.

Morgan Griffith

Griffith Quotes #612487
#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

Griffith Quotes #614571
#95. Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

D.W. Griffith

Griffith Quotes #621735
#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

Griffith Quotes #623701
#97. Love is unconditional selflessness

Jeremy Griffith

Griffith Quotes #628766
#98. In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

Saul Griffith

Griffith Quotes #628843
#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

Griffith Quotes #629100
#100. Finding understanding of the human condition is what rehabilitates and transforms the human race

Jeremy Griffith

Griffith Quotes #636014

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