Geoffrey Gray Quotes

We're attracted to bad guys, and we like to follow bad guys, because they do things that we want to do but just don't do, for whatever reasons.

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• I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Style
  • Driving
  • Aggressive

• There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Place
  • Traditions

• At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Humor
  • Going
  • Grandparents

• I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Great
  • Want
  • Just

• I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • Because

• There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Believe
  • Doing
  • Hunger

• The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Chance

• My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Music
  • Love
  • Beatles

• The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Job
  • Guy
  • Challenge

• The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Life
  • Greatest

• No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Time
  • Live
  • Bad

• There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Fun
  • Action
  • Effort

• I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Know
  • Beauty
  • Just

• It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Perfect
  • Doing
  • Decisions

• I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.

  

  Earl King
  • Jump
  • Head
  • Gymnastics

• For me, graffiti writers were always the fascinating eccentrics of hip-hop culture. What they do is secretive by definition, and not remunerative in any way.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Culture
  • Writers
  • Hip Hop

• Women are more likely to have sex and fall in love, which can be tough because that's not the way men work.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Think
  • Sound
  • Manipulation

• It's an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest actually working on political campaigns.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • Power
  • Political
  • Abuse

• Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Honesty
  • Blame

• I was in a cab in New York. The cab had a sign, 'Please do not smoke, Christ is our unseen guest.' This guy was reaching. I figure, if he could overcome being nailed to a cross, I don't think a Marlboro Light's gonna faze him that much.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Guy
  • Light

• One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

  

  Lincoln Steffens
  • Experience
  • Father
  • Night

• Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• We're attracted to bad guys, and we like to follow bad guys, because they do things that we want to do but just don't do, for whatever reasons.

  

  Geoffrey Gray
  • Guy
  • Reason
  • Attracted