Quotes About Grifters

#1. You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama's make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn't be a problem very long, would it?

Howie Carr

#2. Roy, the guy I play in 'The Grifters,' is a guy who had a very bleak life. His mother had him at 13, and then when she was 17 or 18 and he was 4 or 5, they were trapped in a small Texas town somewhere, and she was ready to do anything to get out.

John Cusack

#3. I'm disappointed ... that the president has not done more to demand that Congress and other federal agencies make the same sacrifices millions of Americans are already making. There is no charity without sacrifice.

Tom Coburn

#4. Acting is a skill that not only requires talent, but a determination: The willpower to shake off reality and plunge yourself into yourself into a character than you have to act on.

Low Kay Hwa

#5. Our God is an awesome God, he reigns from Heaven above, the most high God of all time.

Werley Nortreus

#6. When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.

George Herbert

#7. I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.

Kate Winslet

#8. Why don't we save time and you just tell me what I want?

Chris Noth

#9. For years he had possessed her dreams, but she'd been the master of those dreams. Now, he possessed her memory, and there was nothing she could do about it.

Julie Lessman

#10. I live in New York now and most of magazines have turned more towards reality stars. So, really I think that's great because it's turned towards people who want it rather than ... So, I think it's actually kind of imploding in on itself a little bit.

Kirsten Dunst

#11. It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.

Eckhart Tolle

#12. One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.

Juvenal

#13. The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat, men to whom a crisis, which intimidates and paralyzes the majority, comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about

Wayne W. Dyer