Kathy Griffin Quotes

I had a run in with Whitney Houston, or as I call her, 'Cracky.' Allegedly.

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• When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Up
  • Song
  • Myself

• The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • World
  • Language
  • Natural

• I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.

  

  Yuna
  • Love
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Everyone has a crazy old lady in their family like 'Mama.' No one ever comes up to me and says 'Mama' is just like them, so no one is ever offended by her. Even young people like to laugh at her. I think she helps kids appreciate their own grandmothers more.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Travel

• When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • People
  • True
  • Reality

• One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Earth
  • Destiny
  • Own

• Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Friends
  • Cool
  • Surround Yourself

• I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Wife

• In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Business
  • Film
  • Honor

• I have very eclectic taste in music, but when it comes to going to concerts, I like going to rock concerts.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Like

• Men and women were declared equal one morning and everybody could divorce each other by postcard.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Men
  • Women
  • Morning

• I don't worry about the integrity of the game. Our players are professionals.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Law
  • Universe
  • Blind

• There's always going to be someone out there who doesn't like what you do, doesn't like your style, your face. That's part of life. But I feed off that. I don't think I'd be where I am today if it wasn't for that. It puts a little fire in the belly, keeps me going so I can prove so many people wrong.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Life
  • Today

• The most important thing is to make the technology inclusive - make the world change. Next, pay attention to those people who are 30 years old, because those are the internet generation. They will change the world; they are the builders of the world.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Know
  • Practice
  • Prayer

• Don't you hate it when somebody knows you better than you know yourself?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Hate

• Be just before you're generous.

  

  Eliza Haywood

• Un soir, j'ai assis la Beauté sur mes genoux. - Et je l'ai trouvée amère. - Et je l'ai injuriée.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

• I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice.

  

  Phil Hartman
  • Friends
  • Career

• First, I try to take everything away that doesn't matter to singing. It sounds simplistic, but it works. There is absolute focus on singing: producing sounds and emotions that I have always enjoyed. This is key.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Focus
  • Singing

• I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.

  

  Tyne Daly
  • Women
  • Career
  • Hero

• I had a run in with Whitney Houston, or as I call her, 'Cracky.' Allegedly.

  

  Kathy Griffin