John Grant Quotes

The snappier lyrics come when I'm feeling really good and up. A lot of times, they come after I've just had a meeting with somebody that was uplifting, and you get home, and you're feeling playful or upbeat or whatever, and then they just seem to pop right out.

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• Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Possible

• God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.

  

  Ted Williams
  • God
  • You
  • Own

• I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Girl
  • Language
  • Gun

• I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Moments

• I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.

  

  Barbara McClintock
  • Great
  • Pleasure
  • Plants

• I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Suits
  • Shoe

• I can't see how I'd learn to be a better actor from reading reviews.

  

  Ebon Moss-Bachrach
  • Reading
  • Learn
  • Better

• I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Question
  • Exploration

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Stop
  • Fashion
  • Like

• I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Way
  • Nice
  • Competitive

• I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Movie
  • Building
  • Looking

• Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.

  

  Nafisa Joseph
  • Deep
  • Competition
  • Mistakes

• There are all these scripts where the women, if they're working, are prostitutes and lawyers with an angry streak who'll kill you. It's a reaction to women leaving their men and men being angry about it and saying it on some subconscious level.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Men
  • Women
  • Angry

• Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • People
  • Great
  • Happy

• 'A methodical people,' pulsed the voice of Kesa Khan. 'They call themselves civilized because they can build tall castles and pitch their tents with geometric precision, but from here you can see the reality. Ants build in the same way. Are they civilized?'

  

  David Gemmell
  • People
  • Reality

• We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Good
  • Power
  • Hate

• The snappier lyrics come when I'm feeling really good and up. A lot of times, they come after I've just had a meeting with somebody that was uplifting, and you get home, and you're feeling playful or upbeat or whatever, and then they just seem to pop right out.

  

  John Grant
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