Tony Gilroy (Anthony Joseph Gilroy) Quotes

You change or you hide your head in the sand.

Tony Gilroy

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• Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Space
  • Stars
  • Sand

• Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Know
  • Sand
  • Dubai

• Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Movie
  • Father
  • Myself

• And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Me
  • Limit
  • Sand

• Enclosed by a sand berm four miles around and 160 feet high, the Baghdad Nuclear Research Facility entombs what remains of reactors bombed by Israel in 1981 and the United States in 1991. It has stored industrial and medical wastes, along with spent reactor fuel.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • High
  • Research
  • Medical

• Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Sand

• We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.

  

  Augustus
  • Write
  • Waves
  • Sand

• Looks like a sand pile my kids have been playing in for a long time - it's all beat up - no definition - just a lot of bumps and holes.

  

  William Anders
  • Long
  • Kids
  • Airplane

• You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.

  

  William Blake
  • Wind
  • Back
  • Sand

• I know that's really horrible, but that's how I do it in my head. I'm going to die. It doesn't matter. I don't matter. I'm a grain of sand. As a grain of sand, I may as well go out and relate to people and enjoy my short time on this planet that I have. Who knows what's coming next?

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Horrible

• Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Write
  • Times
  • Stone

• Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Sea
  • Sand
  • Castles

• She was sleeping in a quiet bedroom beside her brother, separated only by glass and sand from the young man she loved, a young man who loved her back.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Brother
  • Sand
  • Glass

• We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South. I would say, "I have a secret to tell you." And, folding me in your arms, boyish and sly, you would answer: "Whisper it into my mouth.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Secret
  • Lying
  • Answers

• I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me.

  

  Masashi Kishimoto
  • World
  • Mother
  • Sand

• Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

  

  Robert W. Service
  • Energy
  • Mountain
  • Abundance

• Then I walked away, and I did not look back. I had written my troubles on the sand. The tide was coming in.

  

  Arthur Gordon Webster
  • Troubles
  • Sand
  • Tide

• If you can reincarnate, what do you wanna be in your next life? I think I want to become a rock. A stone has no troubles and lives a simple life. The worst that could happen would be being stepped on, but that won't hurt. Am I right? What about you? What are you thinking? I've already thought it over for you. You'll become the wind. Because the wind is one of the world's cleanest things. Moreover, the wind can blow upon the rock, moving it. As it blows, the rock will eventually turn into sand. This way, the sand and wind can be together. Sand and wind are meant to be together

  

  Ah Ken
  • Wind
  • Sand
  • Reincarnate

• If we mammals don't get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we begin to starve. Living at biological red alert, it's not surprising how obsessed we are with food; I'm just amazed we don't pace and fret about it all the time.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Fall
  • Hunger
  • Obsessed

• What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Man
  • Race
  • Prejudice

• So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Couple
  • Curious

• You change or you hide your head in the sand.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Sand