Grinchs Lair Quotes

#1. Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.

Julia McNair Wright

#2. The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Henry Ward Beecher

#3. Oh! dear me, the mystery of life; The inaccuracy of thought! The ignorance of humanity!

Virginia Woolf

#4. Our job as humans is to hold onto thoughts of what we want.

John Assaraf

#5. The ordinary American voter does not object to mediocrity. He likes his candidate to be sensible, vigorous, and, above all, what he calls 'magnetic,' and does not value, because he sees no need for, originality or profundity, a fine culture or a wide knowledge.

James Bryce

#6. The bagpipes sound exactly the same when you have finished as when you started

Thomas Beecham

#7. A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#8. I was born and raised in Maryland and attended the public school system.

Brendan Iribe

#9. The USA was the explicit answer to an implicit threat of war, whereas the EU was the implicit answer to explicit experiences of war.

Sergio Fabbrini

#10. Ever wonder where you'd end up if you took your dog for a walk and never once pulled back on the leash?

Robert Breault

#11. All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit.

Albert Einstein

#12. I can't believe I'm comforting a billionaire.

Jon Stewart