Griner Brittney Quotes

#1. Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its diversity of plants and beasts.

Eduardo Galeano

#2. Reading what people say makes me want to be me even more.

Brittney Griner

#3. I want you to come watch my game, not the uniforms.

Brittney Griner

#4. What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

#5. When you become complacent with someone lying, whether it is a close friend, the media, or your government, then you have essentially given them permission to continue to do so and most often at your expense.

Gary Hopkins

#6. All Iraqis should live under one roof and for one goal.

Muqtada Al Sadr

#7. Being determined delinquents, Peyton and I jumped the barricades and wandered around the dilapidated interior.

S.A. Tawks

#8. The will of the entire people is the true basis of republican government, and a free expression ... by the public vote of all citizens, without distinctions of race, color, occupation, or sex, is the only means by which that will can be ascertained.

Victoria Woodhull

#9. No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

Christopher Hitchens

#10. I'm really a skeptic. I'm kind of not a believer in the paranormal.

Paul Feig

#11. It was a lot easier to be optimistic about equality when you didn't have to confront the Neanderthals on a daily basis. When you could imagine that people were actually changing their minds because they'd stopped groping secretaries at the photocopier.

Val McDermid

#12. She shrugged. You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.

Jodi Picoult

#13. Sensitive to symptoms could enhance security.

Toba Beta

#14. [T]he heart is like any other organ, you can weigh it on a scale.

Hilary Mantel

#15. After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.

Victoria De Los Angeles

#16. It's easy for people to say stuff when they don't know the full story.

Brittney Griner

#17. I've always been open about who I am and my sexuality. So, it wasn't hard at all. If I can show that I'm out and I'm fine and everything's OK, then hopefully the younger generation will definitely feel the same way.

Brittney Griner

#18. When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman.

Brittney Griner

#19. I am a strong, black, lesbian woman. Every time I say it, I feel so much better.

Brittney Griner

#20. I intend to get out of here. It can't last forever. Others have thought such things, in bad times before this, and they were always right, they did get out one way or another, and it didn't last forever. Although for them it may have lasted all the forever they had.

Margaret Atwood

#21. Nothing in the world tasted as good for breakfast as stolen rolls with some butter and jam and a mug of milky coffee. Nothing tasted better than a venial sin.

Ian Rankin