Grin Quotes
252 Grin quotes by 176 unique authors
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The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in, says he with a grin, That the bluebird an' phoebe are smarter 'n…
— John Townsend Trowbridge
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Nobody gives way to anybody. Everyone just angles, points, dives directly toward his destination, pretending it is an all-or-nothing gamble. People glare at one another…
— Andrew X. Pham
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Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really…
— William James
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin
— Wavy Gravy
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I created 'The Westerner' because of anger - anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters ... anger at TV's quick-draw tin gods who stand…
— Sam Peckinpah
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I believe in love. And beauty. I believe that every single person has something they find beautiful and that they truly love. The smell of…
— Geneen Roth
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He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the…
— James Joyce
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Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.
— John Wolcot
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If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a…
— Tom Robbins
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"I think we'll have a good potato crop this year," a newspaper editor told his housekeeper one morning. "No such thing," asserted the housekeeper. "I…
— James Keller
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Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.
— Jaggi Vasudev
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I've got such a disgusting, wide, smug grin on my face all the time that my friends just want to slap me. I've never been…
— Holly Valance
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To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is…
— Arthur Eddington
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Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for…
— Emile M. Cioran
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The good news of the gospel [for sufferers] is not an exhortation from above to 'hang on at all costs,' or 'grin and bear it' in the…
— Tullian Tchividjian
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No other city in the U.S. can divest the visitor of so much money with so little enthusiasm. In Dallas, they take away with gusto;…
— Fletcher Knebel
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We want a president who is as much like an American tourist as possible. Someone with the same goofy grin, the same innocent intentions, the…
— Florence King
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Don't ever quit. Never quit. Never show anybody you're hurt. Grin and walk through the cannon smoke. It will drive them up the wall. You…
— James Lee Burke
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I was pretty nervous when I met Robert DeNiro. I kind of felt like a kid in a candy store for the first time. I…
— Yvonne Strahovski
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There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure. There are thousands to point out to you, one…
— Edgar Guest
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Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I'm only looking at a friend.
— Stevie Ray Vaughan
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Indians mock their corrupt politicians relentlessly, but they regard their honest politicians with silent suspicion. The first thing they do when they hear of a…
— Aravind Adiga
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Lookin at herself, but wishing she was someone else because the body of the doll that don't look like hers at all. So she straps…
— Jack Johnson
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You can wipe off that grin, I know where you've been, it's all been a pack of lies.
— Phil Collins
Who Wrote These Grin Quotes
176 authors contributed a total of 252 Grin Quotes, led by these top contributors: