Lee Grant Quotes

I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were.

Lee Grant

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• I'll tell you why I like writing: it's just jumping into a pool. I get myself into a kind of trance. I engage the world, but it's also wonderful to just escape. I try to find the purities out of the confusion. It's pretty old-fashioned, but it's fun.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • World
  • Writing
  • Why

• I'm sure lots of actors and creative people go through this, where you have some weeks where it's all going according to plan and some weeks where you're super frustrated.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Creative
  • Plan

• I've been through a lot of moments when other people thought Bitcoin was going to implode, and in those instances, I generally have seen through inaccurate coverage of it.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • People
  • Moments
  • Thought

• In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • Believe
  • Science

• I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Water
  • Find
  • Concrete

• Those who go along get along.

  

  Sam Snead
  • Get
  • Go
  • Along

• A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

  

  Karl Kraus
  • World
  • Heart
  • Man

• Whatever you're selling, storage or networking or security, you're going head to head with the incumbent players.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • You
  • Security
  • Networking

• My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price.

  

  Samuel Morse
  • Price
  • Willing
  • Engage

• My education - my Ph.D. in storytelling - comes from having worked on it, being a lover of film and watching them, from working with some great writers and some very good TV directors and then working with some who weren't.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Great
  • Education

• Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Creativity
  • Go
  • Letting Go

• We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

  

  Earl Warren
  • May
  • Know
  • Story

• Maybe some mornings, you come to my house, you'll see 'Miss Blankenship' come out of bed. I'm waiting for that spinoff.

  

  Randee Heller
  • House
  • Waiting
  • See

• What you do is, you just do the gig, enjoy, get on with it, and treat the rest as horse doodle.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Rest
  • Enjoy
  • Horse

• Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

• I noticed in the front row a small, very pale, almost white man, old, tremendously alert, old in the only way I love old age, namely more alive for all the years, more attentive, more unrelenting, expectant and ready, as though he still had to make up his mind about most things and must not disregard anything.

  

  Elias Canetti
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Age

• The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.

  

  Ludwig von Mises
  • Truth

• While there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we do not teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual, however; for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Honesty

• You have a great destiny before you. This is your moment! I truly believe that one virtuous young woman, led by the Spirit, can change the world.

  

  Elaine S. Dalton
  • Believe
  • Woman
  • Spirit

• People see that I have my own voice, my own opinion, my own likes. The album really reflects that.

  

  Deborah Cox
  • People
  • Opinion

• I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Meaning
  • Consequence

• Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Rock

• The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Language
  • Harmony
  • Native

• I was such a New Yorker, I hardly knew what the Oscars were.

  

  Lee Grant