Spalding Gray Quotes

I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person.

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• [Bob] Corker was an early endorser.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • Bob

• I also maintain that clear knowledge of natural science must be acquired, in the first instance, through mastery of medicine alone.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Medicine

• Life is nothing but a mirror of your consistent thoughts.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Life
  • Thoughts
  • Mirror

• And in that instant, nothing else mattered. Not the song, not the place, not the other couples around him. Only this, only her.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Song
  • Place
  • Instant

• Debt is a bottomless sea.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Sea
  • Debt

• Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends and a relationship with your lover and your relationship with your family and your relationship with your work - sometimes it's really great; sometimes it's non-existent, sometimes it's fruitful.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • World
  • Art
  • Sometimes

• Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • All Things
  • Formation
  • Ancients

• Take the team to the Final Four and win every personal award possible.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Team
  • Win
  • Final Four

• What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Bed
  • Wear
  • Chanel

• There's the whole Mad Hatter's dilemma, it was the amount of mercury that they used in the glue to make the hats. Everything was damaging. So, in terms of the Mad Hatter, looking at it from that perspective of this guy who literally is damaged goods, physically damaged, emotionally a little obtuse, and taking that and deciding that he should be - as opposed to just this hyper, nutty guy - he should explore all sides of the personality at an extreme level.

  

  Johnny Depp
  • Hats
  • Dilemma
  • Mercury

• I surrender to the Monster. What pleasure at last to give way to the strongest force in oneself.

  

  Barry Webster
  • Force
  • Monster
  • Surrender

• Roman women kept their name throughout their lives, and did not change it on marriage.

  

  Adrian Goldsworthy
  • Change
  • Marriage
  • Name

• I wouldn't call Adolf Hitler a corporal. Adolf Hitler was looked up to. He was revered almost like a God because he was feared. Adolf Hitler took all of Europe, and my generation had to confront Adolf Hitler.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Up
  • God
  • Europe

• Jesus is the mediator of justice; Mary obtains for us grace; for, as St. Bernard, St. Bonaventure, St. Bernardine of Siena, St. Germanus, St. Antoninus, and others say, it is the will of God to dispense through the hands of Mary whatever graces he is pleased to bestow upon us. With God, the prayers of the saints are the prayers of His friends, but the prayers of Mary are the prayers of His mother.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Friends
  • Mother

• A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Passion
  • Grand

• The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.

  

  William James
  • Sorry
  • Cry
  • Apology

• - Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Struggle
  • Policy
  • Fearful

• I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person.

  

  Spalding Gray
  • Fearful
  • Phobic