Grimmer's Quotes

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

Jo Nesbo

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Nick Joaquin

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#8. Americans don't like European movies.

Marina Abramovic

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

Honore De Balzac

#10. face grew longer and grimmer as Berel

Herman Wouk

#11. I'm satisfied to go in at the bottom - that's the best way to learn what things are all about.

Cesar Romero

#12. 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

#13. That's the main thing you have to have ... trust.

Elle Fanning

#14. 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

#15. All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

E. E. Cummings

#16. You know, I've occasionally tried to watch other shows besides Scrubs, but comparing them is a bit like me competing in the special Olympics. Obviously I would win without contest, but the point is that they are trying their best.

Zach Braff

#17. 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

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

Edith Wharton

#19. How easy it is for men with evil in their hearts to hear only what they want

Paul W. Feenstra

#20. 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