Grown Folk Quotes

#1. Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing. I

Catherynne M Valente

#2. To fight discouragement, remind yourself of the basics:
I can write.
I have the opportunity to do so.
I love what I write.
Now smile and be thankful.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#3. Having a baby changes the way you view your in-laws. I love it when they come to visit now. They can hold the baby and I can go out.

Matthew Broderick

#4. We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.

Imelda Staunton

#5. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#6. When you are young and powerless you dream of possessing mystical strength, and once you are grown and strong you condemn lesser folk to that same dream,

Bernard Cornwell

#7. He made her feel small. Since there weren't too many men out there who could make her feel small, this frightened her a bit. It actually frightened her more than the huge sword slung across his back.

Laura Hunsaker

#8. I like things to be orderly.

David Lynch

#9. Where do you go to get anorexia?

Shelley Winters

#10. If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent. - Alan Turing

Stuart Firestein

#11. When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.

David Mamet

#12. Time is like a river
you cannot touch the same water twice because the flow that has passed
will never pass again ...

Tanu B Singh

#13. As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down.

Ted Leo

#14. What we tell, is rarely what we do.

Gregory David Roberts

#15. I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

Robert M. Gates

#16. When you fall do not automatically assume those standing around you are there to pick you up.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. Writing made it tolerable to be human in a way nothing else ever had. It gave me a place to thrive, to exorcise, to cultivate some understanding of aspects of being human that were otherwise confounding.

Camilla Gibb

#18. I like writing for other people. I love it. It's great because you write it and then you hand it off to someone else. But in terms of directing, anything I direct will be something I've written or re-written. I'm in no crazy rush to direct.

Nicholas Stoller