Merv Griffin Quotes

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Merv Griffin

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• The oak has long been an enduring and mighty tree. It is truly a part of our national heritage and it merits the formal distinction of America's National Tree.

  

  Bob Goodlatte
  • Long
  • America
  • Tree

• When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Up
  • Real
  • Understanding

• France has to accelerate in terms of reform.

  

  Emmanuel Macron

• For a while, I drank the juice - I did things the way everybody else said to. I listened to their advice. But it didn't work.

  

  Donald Cerrone
  • Work
  • Advice

• A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with.

  

  John Sandford

• Fly Heisenberg Airlines – we don’t know where we are, but we’re making damned good time.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Time
  • Good
  • Fly

• I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Artist
  • See
  • Temperament

• It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Cold

• The goal of this presentation is to impress, rather than inform.

  

  W. A. H. Rushton
  • Goal
  • Personality
  • Impress

• [Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him very much like a Catholic voice. This is, indeed, a mystery, and it intrigues me, too.

  

  Quentin S. Crisp
  • Life
  • Voice
  • Catholic

• Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!

  

  Kate (Ma) Barker
  • Lies

• I think the money for the solutions for global poverty is on Wall Street. Wall Street allocates capital. And we need to get capital to the ideas that are successful, whether it's microfinance, whether it's through financial literacy programs, Wall Street can be the engine that makes capital get to the people who need it.

  

  Kabir Sehgal
  • People
  • Money
  • Poverty

• My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • School
  • Home
  • Sports

• Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Justice
  • Causes
  • Equal

• I must say, some are not very beautifully made. They’re coffee-table books for people who drink alcohol. I have nothing against coffee-table books as long as they are well done. They must not look like gravestones on a table. Sometimes they are too big, they come in boxes and things like this. No, a book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Long
  • Book

• The plants are the pipeline into the Gaian intention. It's just not a coincidence that these plants carry this immense spiritual message. They are the pipeline of Gaian intentionality.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Spiritual
  • Plant
  • Intention

• Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Thought
  • Fortitude
  • Marshall

• I will not be back after these messages

  

  Merv Griffin
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