Top 39 Grist Quotes
#1. An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.
Friedrich Schiller
#2. 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
#3. We provide both irritation and inspiration for each other- the grist for each other's pearl making.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#4. Memory is not about what went on in the past, it is about what is going on inside us right this moment. ... It is made up of the stuff of life in the process of becoming the grist of the soul.
Joan D. Chittister
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.
Brian Keene
#8. For paranoia was Zig's late style: How else but through networks and conspiracies could he fashion a target big enough for his outrage? Richard usually found paranoia uninteresting, insofar as it swept away the incidental, which was the real grist of history.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#9. 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
#10. We must remember that all stations are as much about life as they are obviously about death. All is redeemed. All is grist for transformation and glory.
Megan McKenna
#11. If fate is a millstone, we are the grist. There is nothing we can do. So I wish for strength. If I cannot protect them from the wheel,then give me a strong blade, and enough strength, to shatter fate
Tite Kubo
#12. You will either have value, or be grist for the mill - nothing more.
Bryant McGill
#13. Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. The grist for my mill is the human body and the art of healing.
Richard Selzer
#19. Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.
Elaine De Kooning
#20. 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
#21. All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.
Helen Suzman
#22. The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill.
Jane Green
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. I think in terms of the parents that I had, I sort of drew a bad hand, or bad karma; who knows? And I did have a family that was complicated, with some quite eccentric members. So there was a lot of grist there.
Kathryn Harrison
#26. Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.
Allan Lokos
#27. I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.
Christopher Meloni
#28. I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
J. Cole
#29. One must put things in perspective - I've been given a circumstance with very little time to catch form and try and get an Olympic quota for the country.
Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
#30. Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart.
Sakyong Mipham
#31. It is when I am on stage that I feel most comfortable. It is my home. It is the only thing I have known since I was a kid.
Cilla Black
#32. He knows that I have a photographic memory ... and that I'm a hacker.
Stieg Larsson
#33. You're such an optimist Kane
that's your problem. You only end up disappointed.
Paul Grist
#34. See, some guys prefer asses
Some prefer tits
And I'm not saying that I don't like those bits
But what's more important
What supersedes
Is a girl a with passion, wit and dreams
So I want a girl who reads.
Mark Grist
#36. He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid.
Epictetus
#37. If you have power, you have to empower.
Kanye West
#38. I swallowed hard. It was my life. And it was my choice how I decided to live it.
Heather Brewer
#39. You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.
Billy Crystal
