Grimness Quotes

#1. There's a chilling grimness behind his gaze, and I let myself acknowledge what I've been denying: In his own way, Morpheus is my knight, too. He just has more muddled motivations than Jeb - not always unselfish and honorable, but vigilant. I have to give him that.
-Unhinged, pg 252

A.G. Howard

#2. The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of experience, to whose grimness I had grown so accustomed that I now took it for granted.

Paul Bowles

#3. Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in proportion as they lean to Newgate-like offenses, particularly of blood and wounds ...

Leigh Hunt

#4. When people aren't having any fun, they seldom produce good work. Kill the grimness with laughter. Encourage exuberance. Get rid of sad dogs that spread gloom.

David Ogilvy

#5. The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a certain poverty, grimness and roughness which correspond to the violent realities of a cruel age.

Thomas Merton

#6. As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.

Greg Van Eekhout

#7. Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.

Kathleen Norris

#8. Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.

Alex Lemon

#9. While I shared many of the same emotions Bill describes, in no way did my experience ever degenerate into the grimness I find in his book - I didn't have to live with Don, and I think that made a big big difference.

Gary Lucas

#10. I'm not good at living in the grim places ... when we did Gatsby, I lived in Claridges, that's where I wanted to live. I can't live in grimness and then go play a classy human being.

Bruce Dern

#11. You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

Andrew Taylor Still

#12. I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine

Bill Bailey

#13. In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

Honore De Balzac

#14. My time of martial arts was traditional.

Jean-Claude Van Damme

#15. 2 A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only z in expressing his opinion.

Anonymous

#16. The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, / And if ever there was it led forward life ... / All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

Kevin Hearne

#17. You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Albert Einstein

#18. I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.

Emma Watson

#19. When you put emphasis on compromise rather than on principle, you end up with 2/3 of the principles being implemented.

Andy Andrews

#20. God will come into your plans. But the choice is yours whether you allow Him to begin it, or force Him to end it.

Roberts Liardon

#21. He half said, half mumbled, "I'm not that nice.

Penny Reid

#22. Whereas Superman is a godlike guy from another planet and Batman is this mysterious, unknowable billionaire, everyone in 'Spider-Man' is human and flawed.

Rhys Ifans