Top 26 Grout Quotes
#1. Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.
Dan Phillips
#2. The text illustrates the pictures - it provides a connective tissue for me. I usually refine the text last, partly because pictures are harder to do, so it's easier to edit words - I use text as grout in between the tiles of the pictures.
Shaun Tan
#3. So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
Benjamin Franklin
#4. I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.
Will Self
#6. I think. Therefore, I am. I think."
- Anonymous
I found this written in tiny letters in the grout between the wall tiles above a urinal in a restroom at the University of Washington, circa 1980. I don't know if Descartes would have approved but I thought it was brilliant.
Gary Val Tenuta
#7. If you don't reach out to me when I am in distress, do you want to celebrate my success?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#8. The upward move at the beginning of a bull market is almost always huge compared with the vacillations late in the bear market. If you try to pick a bottom, you will miss a good part of the action.
Kenneth Fisher
#9. Confusius says One who farts in church sits in pew!
Grout Man
#10. In war I would deal with the Devil and his grandmother
Joseph Stalin
#11. Anger is an affected madness, compounded of pride and folly, and an intention to do commonly more mischief than it can bring to pass; and, without doubt, of all passions which actually disturb the mind of man, it is most in our power to extinguish, at least, to suppress and correct, our anger.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#12. Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
Alan Turing
#13. love trumps fear, laughter trumps tears, and abundance trumps loss. And
Pam Grout
#14. Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.
John Oliver Killens
#15. Perhaps I have something of a chip on my shoulder when it comes to modern feminine education. Often youngsters are sadly miscast. I have known girls who should be tinkering with mechanical things instead of making dresses, and boys who would do better at cooking than engineering.
Amelia Earhart
#16. You can enlarge the conversation by taking your focus off the negative and noticing all the things that are going right, taking a stand for the goodness of humanity.
Pam Grout
#17. When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do; when we rely upon eloquence, we get what eloquence can do. And so on. But when we rely upon prayer, we get what God can do.
A.C. Dixon
#18. Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what is known in nature. - St. AUGUSTINE, LATIN PHILOSOPHER AND THEOLOGIAN
Pam Grout
#19. Capitalism's final victory will be that, as it destroys us, it has us all blaming each other.
Vic Grout
#21. The Bible is to be our basis of authority. We must "by faith" accept [Jesus] as the Son of the living God. This sounds narrow and intolerant, and in a sense it is!
Billy Graham
#22. Wow. Getting sassy, aren't you?" "I am, aren't I?" I asked in amazement. "I didn't know I knew how to do that.
Erin McCarthy
#23. Whatever you focus on expands,
Pam Grout
#24. Making. Langdon suspected, however, that the actual reason
Dan Brown
#25. Culture is the heartbeat of the organization and our society.
Pearl Zhu
#26. The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.
Thomas Merton
