Grunt Quotes
46 quotes by 45 authors
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Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful…
— Tom Platz
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As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I…
— Monica Seles
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Work hard, not in grunt work, but in chasing such opportunities and maximizing exposure to them. This makes living in big cities invaluable because you…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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One only passes from the darkness of ignorance to the enlightenment of science if one re-reads with ever-increasing love the works of the ancients. Let…
— Peter of Blois
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After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears…
— Robert R. McCammon
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How the little piglets would grunt if they knew how the old boar suffered.
— Ragnar Lodbrok
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It is because the public are a mass inert, obtuse, and passive that they need to be shaken up from time to time so that…
— Alfred Jarry
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I know you are reporters and I know this is your job, but, you know, take your note pads, take your pencils down, take your…
— Maria Sharapova
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Never, however, do I take shortcuts. There is not path of least resistance in my training. What I do equates to hard manual labor, disciplined…
— Dean Karnazes
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I think it's high time we started questioning the old cliches like "Grunt big for Daddy."
— Jack Handey
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Grunt, foam at the mouth, and otherwise get psychic.
— Theodore Annemann
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He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.
— Kenneth W. Harl
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Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man…
— Eric Hoffer
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While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he uses his ears,…
— Jean Little
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I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles,…
— Stephen Fry
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I can't help but admire the structural linguists who have carved out forthemselves a linguistic discipline based on the deterioration of writtencommunication. Another case of…
— Daniel Keyes
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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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Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless that the colors of an autumn forest....Yet he seriously…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!
— David Hackworth
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Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.
— William Osler
Who Wrote These Grunt Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 46 Grunt Quotes, led by these top contributors: