G Quotes
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“Graff smiled a little Mona Lisa smile, if Mona Lisa had been a pudgy colonel.”
Source: A War of Gifts
“Graffiti doesn't exist unless someone got a photo, because it's gone immediately.”
“Graffiti is a lot easier than the canvas actually, because it's such a large format, so when you're going to such a thin detail, it's not that thin in the realm of things because it's such a big wall. This would take a small paint brush of detail, but on a huge wall, if that's the size of a building, the thinnest detail is still that big, it's a quick spray. Spray paint is easiest for me. I love spray paint.”
“Graffiti is a pathetic attempt at anonymous recognition.”
“Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.”
“Graffiti is like building a career. And there is a dialogue with the other artists out there mostly fellow writers because a lot of people who don't paint just see a blur when they look at it.”
“Graffiti is linear and it's done with a pencil, and it's like writing on walls. But in my paintings it's more lyrical.”
“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing.”
“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.”
“Graffiti is only dangerous in the mind of three types of people; politicians, advertising executives and graffiti writers.”
Source: Banksy: wall and piece
“Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another venue.”
“Graffiti is the art of the people. It is a language without clear official status, but whose instinctive quality testifies to the honesty of human experience and the true nobility of art.
Often marked with a sense of eroticism and violence, the wall conserves something pure and sacred about the human story.”
Source: In Search for Meaning
“Graffiti showed the text of a Dutchbat UN soldier
Who said that Bosnian women had no teeth
He thought they smelled like shit and had mustaches, too
It seemed that evil took over and shared its view”
Source: Justice For Bosnia and Herzegovina
“Graffiti ultimately wins out over proper art because it becomes part of your city, it' s a tool; "I'll meet you in that pub, you know, the one opposite that wall with a picture of a monkey holding a chainsaw". I mean, how much more useful can a painting be than that?”
“Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward.”
“Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack: Being the Choicest Morsels of Wisdom, Written During the Years of the Almanack's Publication
“Graham Chapman, co-author of the "Parrot Sketch", is no more. He has ceased to be. Bereft of life, he rests in peace. He's kicked the bucket, hopped the twig, bit the dust, snuffed it, breathed his last, and gone to meet the great Head of Light Entertainment in the sky. And I guess that we're all thinking how sad it is that a man of such talent, of such capability for kindness, of such unusual intelligence, should now so suddenly be spirited away at the age of only forty-eight, before he'd achieved many of the things of which he was capable, and before he'd had enough fun. Well, I feel that I should say: nonsense. Good riddance to him, the freeloading bastard, I hope he fries. And the reason I feel I should say this is he would never forgive me if I didn't, if I threw away this glorious opportunity to shock you all on his behalf. Anything for him but mindless good taste.
(He paused, then claimed that Chapman had whipered in his ear while he was writing the speech):
All right, Cleese. You say you're very proud of being the very first person ever to say 'shit' on British television. If this service is really for me, just for starters, I want you to become the first person ever at a British memorial service to say 'fuck'.”
“Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.”
“Graham Greene famously said that all writers need a chip of ice in their heart; Cusk can come across as the most beautiful ice palace of stalactites and stalagmites, and some people find her company, albeit by proxy, about as inviting as a long weekend in a walk-in frigidaire.”
“Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.”
“Graham had a lot of trouble with taste. Often his thoughts were not tasty. There were no effective partitions in his mind. What he saw and learned touched everything else he knew. Some of the combinations were hard to live with. But he could not anticipate them, could not block and repress. His learned values of decency and propriety tagged along, shocked at his associations, appalled at his dreams; sorry that in the bone arena of his skull there were no forts for what he loved. His associations came at the speed of light. His value judgments were at the pace of a responsive reading. They could never keep up and direct his thinking. He viewed his own mentality as grotesque but useful, like a chair made of antlers. There was nothing he could do about it.”
Source: Red Dragon
“Graham let out another low growl as his eyes glowed with desire. "Come Here!”
Source: A Mating Dance
“Graham liked the idea of protection on the downside.”
“Graham: No amount of advice or lectures or trying to chain somebody down ever stopped anyone who didn't want to stop in the first place.”
Source: Daisy Jones & The Six
“Graham Norton makes me laugh. I love him. I'm not kidding. I watch him on BBC America every week. He's so fast.”
“Graham runs a hand through his hair and takes a deep breath. Finally, with a determined scowl, he crosses the room. His hands grip my shoulders. “We are not,” his voice is a gentle tremor, “breaking up”
Source: Between the Lines: The Complete Series
“Graham Yost is a genius, and I know that very well because we worked together on 'Band of Brothers' and 'Boomtown.'”
“Graham's wonderful sentence as, an investor needs only two things: cash and courage. Having only one of them is not enough.”
“Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.”
“Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.”
“Grain is the brush stroke of photography.”
“Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.”
“Grains are essentially sugar with enough opioids to make them addictive.”
Source: The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability
“Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees.”
Source: The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers
“Grains of sands can turn into mountains - by the simple act of blind belief in someones abilities.
Limitation in favor of density, or those eyes who reach far have responsibility to give directions.”
“Gram for gram, spirulina could be the most nutritious and well-rounded food on the planet, which stores almost indefinitely.”
Source: Conscious Eating: Second Edition
“Grame de somn duc la kilograme de rezultate în afaceri.”
Source: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
“Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through its unique decision-making process, Grameen Bank has given millions of women the means to emerge from the shadows in a male-dominated society and to make something of themselves.”
“Gramma Pearl fixed my earache with my pee!" GrandMary recoiled and, a heart-beat later, glared at my mother as if this was her fault. something split inside me when I saw my mother's embarrassment. I learned there were times when I was expected to be a Fontaine and other times when it was safe to be a Firekeeper.”
Source: Firekeeper’s Daughter
“Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.”
Source: Life Lines: Quotations from the Work of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
“Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy.”
“Grammar Checker – A software program that is not needed by those who know grammar and virtually useless for those who don’t.”
“Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.”
“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
Source: Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations
“Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.”
“Grammar is just like a jigsaw puzzle. When putting a puzzle together, one should sort the pieces by colors, groups, and patterns to identify different sections of it because organizing the pieces effectively allows for efficient and timely assembly. The same happens with language, knowing its elements and how they work together allow for clear and effective communication.”
“Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.”
“Grammar is not a set of rules; it is something inherent in the language, and language cannot exist without it. It can be discovered, but not invented.”
“Grammar is politics by other means.”
“Grammar is the analysis of language.”
Source: Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)