If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it,… — Lykke Li Copy Share Image
It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
9/11 was my first day teaching at Harvard University. My classes were all canceled and I got back to town two days… — Hal Hartley Copy Share Image
But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty place, from coal… — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
Great lecturers seldom hesitate to use dramatic tricks to enshrine their precepts in the minds of their audiences, and at Yale perhaps… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
Collective bargaining has always been the bedrock of the American labor movement. I hope that you will continue to anchor your movement… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I am not cute. I am the dreaded Grim Reaper. People fear me, you know. There's a whole song about it. — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play. — Howard Bloom Copy Share Image
Has the grim savage rushed again from the wilderness? Or does some fiend... twang her deadly arrows at our breast? No, none… — Joseph Warren Copy Share Image
Start her, now; give 'em the long and strong stroke, Tashtego. Start her, Tash, my boy-start her, all; but keep cool, keep… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
History is a grim reminder of what happens to those who think they have no law but themselves. — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
The trees down the boulevard stand naked in thought, Their abundant summery wordage silenced, caught In the grim undertow; naked the trees… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Things do look pretty grim, but I think there are more laughs in Hellboy in Hell than there are in B.P.R.D.: Hell… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God's medicine. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly, the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of… — John Updike Copy Share Image
My strips are not always funny, and they can be pretty grim at times, and I know I lose readers because of… — Lynda Barry Copy Share Image
“I'm thirty-nine years old. I've got a wife that I can't get rid of. I've got varicose veins. I've got five false… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think,… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail. — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
