Griscom Quotes

#1. Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

Stephen Fry

#2. Ego is "I"; it is your singular point of view. In innocence this point of view is pure, like a clear lens. But without innocence the ego's focus is extremely distorting.

Deepak Chopra

#3. Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.

Carrie Newcomer

#4. I think people in the future will come up to me and say, "Everything that you are and everything that you have is because of that butler [film]." Of course, that's Oprah's line from the movie, but I think it will resonate with my legacy with the movie.

Lee Daniels

#5. Labor will hurt. Probably a lot. But whether this is negative is another matter ... A laboring woman can be in a great deal of pain, yet feel loved and supported and exhilarated by the creative forces flowing through her body and her ability to meet labor's challenges.

Henci Goer

#6. In reality there is nothing to fear in the present. Fear is projected onto the present by memory.

Deepak Chopra

#7. He wasn't evil as much as magnificently innocent of any kind of morality.

Jim Butcher

#8. Perhaps I just feel safer with the history that's been more or less agreed upon.

Julian Barnes

#9. I daydream often and sometimes my daydreams interrupt my daydreams. So I write to remember them. If I didn't write, I think my mind would explode from an overload of fantasy and weirdness. To the annoyance of my friends and family, my characters sometimes become a part of my world.

Susan Griscom

#10. My guys wanted to call it "Cujo" or "Stiletto." But the developers wanted to call it "Unicorn." Unicorn? Like rainbows and Care Bears? And against all my expectations, "Unicorn" wins the vote. Developers. I'll never understand them.

Gene Kim

#11. When we practice or teach a thing we should be able to give New Testament authority for so doing.

William E. Cox

#12. We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.

Winston Churchill

#13. This is the greatest gift God can give you: to understand what happened in your life. To have it explained. It is the peace you have been searching for.

Mitch Albom

#14. Oh, I know. They're dwarfs pretending to be elves.
No, they're not dwarfs either.
Okay, okay, they're "little people," I'm sorry! Can't believe I have to be politically correct when you're the only one who can hear me.

Kevin Hearne