Top 18 Grobel Quotes
#1. Larry Grobel senses there are no answers in life, only questions. Good ones.
Robert Towne
#2. The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.
J.P. Donleavy
#3. Larry Grobel's interviews are informative and insightful without being pandering or intrusive. You get the sense at all times of both intelligence at work-the interviewee's and Grobel's-both inspired by the encounter.
David Duchovny
#4. In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
F. Sionil Jose
#5. Behind the aesthetic form lies the repressed harmony of sensuousness and reason
Herbert Marcuse
#6. I grew up loving the John Wayne and Clint Eastwood westerns.
Ben Mendelsohn
#7. Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sights I haven't seen, make me ponder questions I may not have pondered before.
Therese Fowler
#8. God has not the slightest need for our proofs.
Karl Barth
#9. Employers say they want people who can think creatively, who can innovate, who can communicate well, work in teams and are adaptable and self-confident.
Ken Robinson
#10. I smiled and held my peace. Women are apt to lose perspective when fat with child.
Mark Lawrence
#11. Unless we die to ourselves, we can never be alive again.
D.T. Suzuki
#13. Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.
Noam Chomsky
#14. The final test of religious faith ... is whether it will enable men to endure insecurity without complacency or despair, whether it can so interpret the ancient verities that they will not become mere escape hatches from responsibilities but instruments of insights into what civilization means.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#15. I could give two shits about who sits on what throne and what flag rises from Rune's towers. Whoever it is I have to kneel to is always going to be some vicious swindler who climbed into that throne on the backs of the poor, the broken and the dead.
David Benem
#16. Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the Lord. Be positive.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#17. She'd meant to tell him that morning. Then he'd surprised her with this trip, and she couldn't ruin it. It was the first time they'd had a day together in what - three months?
Rick Riordan
#18. What the hell kind of family did I marry into?
Triple H
