Peter R. Grant Quotes

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Peter R. Grant

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• My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Power
  • Husband
  • Wedding

• When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Celebrity
  • Athlete
  • Gymnastics

• I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Types

• A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Political
  • Best
  • Couple

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
  • Good
  • Myself

• Ultimately, biological phenomena involve molecules, and understanding them involves understanding the underlying chemistry. In my opinion, this is a particularly exciting area of chemistry.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Understanding
  • Opinion
  • Chemistry

• The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • War
  • History
  • Sea

• Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Support
  • Public

• Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.

  

  Zola Jesus
  • Things
  • Human
  • Reflection

• Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Love
  • Angels
  • Many

• Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Values
  • Your
  • Morals

• Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Children
  • School
  • Parents

• I was not only typecast as a Russian, but I was typecast as Yakov Smirnoff. This is understandable, and I was very happy to get the roles, but it would be nice to be in a movie where I could be someone else.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Movie
  • Happy
  • Nice

• I've always said AOL is great opportunity for somebody.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Said

• He is born in vain, who having attained the human birth, so difficult to get, does not attempt to realise God in this very life

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Life
  • God

• Time is a waste of money.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Money
  • Waste

• Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn’t quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Proud
  • Humble

• The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.

  

  John Adams
  • Men
  • Country
  • Knowledge

• Every time I sit down to write, I need to commit to a word count goal, otherwise I waste too much time editing and re-editing my previous work, staring dreamily off into space, pretending that I'm thinking profound, poetic thoughts when really I'm just thinking, 'Look at me being a writer! I'm so happy I'm a writer!'

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Time
  • Work
  • Thinking

• The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • Virtue
  • Endeavor

• In Canada there's an extensive grant system that really allows people to make their work without having to suffer that much, and I'm staring to come around on that, that maybe people don't have to suffer. Maybe you can just not be unhappy and make beautiful music in Canada, maybe that's ok.

  

  Emily Haines Broken Social Scene
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Suffering

• The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

  

  John Calvin
  • Mother
  • Human Heart
  • Factory Of Idols

• And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city.

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • Interesting
  • City

• Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.

  

  Peter R. Grant