Grimmer Quotes

#1. The goddess Nemesis, Bertol Grimmer's favourite motif after the War. The goddess of revenge.

Jo Nesbo

#2. The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.

Herb Asher

#3. If your hands were not clean, your good actions had grimmer and more relentless consequences than your sins.

Nick Joaquin

#4. I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic.

Amy Tan

#5. Anna Deavere Smith's new one-woman show bills itself as being about health care, but the truth is that 'Let Me Down Easy' is mostly about the grimmer subject of death and dying.

Terry Teachout

#6. Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?

Honore De Balzac

#7. face grew longer and grimmer as Berel

Herman Wouk

#8. Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.

Winston Churchill

#9. Just give her one, Ifemelu thought. To overwhelm a child of four with choices, to lay on her the burden of making a decision, was to deprive her of the bliss of childhood. Adulthood, after all, already loomed, where she would have to make grimmer and grimmer decisions.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#10. A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. It wasn't his fault he'd been reared in a nice, safe, civilized society that protected him from the harsh reality of an older and grimmer set of imperatives.

David Weber

#12. There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

Edith Wharton

#13. And finally - he was neither able nor willing to prevent it - the self-loathing dammed up inside him spilled over and gushed out, gushed out of glaring eyes that grew ever grimmer, angrier, beneath the rim of his cap, flooding the outside world as perfect, vulgar hate.

Patrick Suskind

#14. I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.

Elton John

#15. The fragile weave of natural sound is being torn apart by our seemingly boundless need to conquer the environment rather than to find a way to abide in consonance with it.

Bernie Krause

#16. I have read all of James Patterson's Books except for the last 5.I have over 80 of his books.

Bridget Of Sweden

#17. Why don't you lift the end?" said Alf. "It's me back, Alf," complained Mack. "You know how it troubles me." "No more than mine troubles me," said Alf. "But I said it first," said Mack.

Dave Barry

#18. If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child,for example, is also a more humane place for adults.

Richard Louv

#19. Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.

Werner Heisenberg

#20. One of the side effects of losing intimacy with God is that at some point we stop doing ministry out of imagination and we begin doing it out of memory.

Bill Johnson

#21. The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery.

Maureen Corrigan

#22. EPITAPH ON AN INFANT Ere Sin could blight or Sorrow fade, Death came with friendly care: The opening Bud to Heaven convey'd, And bade it blossom there.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#23. The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.

Isabel Paterson