John Robert Gregg Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
-
The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
-
If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
-
In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
-
Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.
-
I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.
-
Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.
-
Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
-
My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance.
-
Tests conducted before I graduated predicted a future for me in journalism, forestry, or the teaching of music; persons who know me well could recognize some truth in those seemingly errant prognoses.
-
Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things.
-
Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.
-
The words of the world want to make sentences.
-
You need to look at Congress as having a certain capacity. Now, the capacity varies from year to year and from body to body, but there is a finite amount of things that Congress can attentively do.
-
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
-
Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.
-
And I think we created something incredible as a Democratic group, as a platform, as an effort to make a change in the country, and I think we did change this country. And I think we will continue to, and I know that my father is not going to stop fighting.
-
He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
-
One of the greatest things about writing as a profession is that the words of Tolstoy, Chesterton and Dostoyevsky have lived for a hundred years and are just as powerful today. Their words have changed me just as much as the people I actually met.
-
Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.
-
If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
-
The question is not whether Tibet should be independent but the extent of the autonomy that it is allowed. Tibet has been firmly ensconced as part of the Chinese empire since the Qing dynasty's military intervention in Tibet in the early 18th century.
-
It doesn't use shading, but it does use stroke length variations.
