Grist For The Mill Quotes

#1. View all problems as challenges. Look upon negativities that arise as opportunities to learn and to grow. Don't run from them, condemn yourself, or bury your burden in saintly silence. You have a problem? Great. More grist for the mill. Rejoice, dive in, and investigate.

Henepola Gunaratana

#2. Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out.

Elaine De Kooning

#3. You will either have value, or be grist for the mill - nothing more.

Bryant McGill

#4. I've lost both parents in the last two years, so you pick up on that stuff. That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill.

Terry Pratchett

#5. Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.

Elaine De Kooning

#6. Pritkin was saying something, something I should probably be paying attention to since he was looking a little ... stressed.

Karen Chance

#7. The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales, newspapers, novels, films, works of art of all kinds.

Lee Hall

#8. I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.

Tom Clancy

#9. Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything.

John Polkinghorne

#10. There's no hate lost between us.

Thomas Middleton

#11. The twisted circumstances under which we live is grist for the writing mill, the loving, hating and discovering, finding new handles for old pitchers ...

Alice Childress

#12. I didn't need to be speaker because I needed a fancy title or a big office. I wanted to be speaker so I could lead an effort to deal with the serious issues that are facing our country.

John Boehner

#13. Nothing helped tea. It simply was what it was, which was boiling hot and flavorless.

Shana Abe

#14. Everything happens on the Lord's time frame. Not ours. We can't have regrets. We are exactly where we are today because of every event that led us here. (I just want to be with you. I love you, and I always have.)

Beth Wiseman

#15. My past is what God expects me to use to help others through their present.

Toni Sorenson

#16. Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on in my life, in the world, and in my head. Every nightmare, every moment of grief or joy or failure, is a moment I can convert into cash via words.

Grant Morrison

#17. I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

Robert Plant

#18. The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often; books don't

Emma Iadanza

#19. For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.

David Whyte

#20. The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill.

Jane Green

#21. I prefer theater and film. I did a little television, and obviously I'm not knocking it. It can be great, and it does pay the bills. But it's a little bit more disjointed.

Condola Rashad

#22. All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.

Helen Suzman

#23. Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

#24. He turned, as he spoke, a peculiar look in her direction, a look of hatred unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul.

Emily Bronte

#25. The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing.

Richard Selzer

#26. And if you cannot remain indifferent, you must resolve to throw your weight into that balance in which the fate and condition of man is weighed.

Lajos Kossuth

#27. Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.

Keri Hulme