Grind Quotes - Page 13

• I'm really big on family. I'll love catching up with my cousins. Everyone's in their twenties, so they're all on their grind at the moment, but when we get the time, I'll fly everybody to Amsterdam or Ibiza, and we can just hang for a week, chill, do nothing.

  Tinie Tempah

  Cousin, Ibiza, Twenties

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Some people just have a natural gift and some people really have to work at it and I'm more of the second kind. I always had to grind it out, where from him it just flowed.

  Ralph Reese

  People, Natural Gifts, Kind

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• No matter how you were born, no matter how you identify, I want to be clear that I would be proud to grind you up and eat you.

  Stephen Colbert

  Would Be, Want, Proud

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• I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.

  Gregory Peck

  Axes, Want, Lectures

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know anyone who's going to see Grind 22 times in the theater. My mom. Some kid who has short-term memory loss and forgot that he's seen it.

  Adam Brody

  Mom, Memories, Kids

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• When I appear in public, people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.

  Anne, Princess Royal

  Funny, Humor, People

  Quoted in Observer (London), 22 May 1977

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• Like sheaves of corn it gathers you unto itself. It threshes you to make you naked. It sifts you to free you from your husks. It grinds you to whiteness. It kneads you until you are pliant. And then it assigns you to its sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast. All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's Heart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Heart, Fire, Secret

  Khalil Gibran, “Love”

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• We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Science, Fire, Clouds

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.7

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• Sex, like art, can unsettle a soul, can grind a heart in a mortar. Sex, like literature, can sneak the other within one's wall, even if only for a moment, a moment before one immures oneself again.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Art, Sex, Wall

  Rabih Alameddine (2014). “An Unnecessary Woman”, p.38, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.

  Jane Birkin

  Teeth, Lucky, Actors

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• The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it.

  Mark Twain

  Opportunity, Race, Symbols

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.187, Courier Corporation

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• The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative, determination, courage, including the courage to run away. In course of time it appeared that men who had a private axe to grind beyond the public axe of the King's enemies were especially successful.

  Jim Bailey

  Running, Determination, Kings

  Jim Bailey (2013). “The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story”, p.37, A&C Black

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• Both teams want to win and they want to do everything possible. You don't think about the fatigue factor. You're just trying to grind it out to get the win.

  Paul Pierce

  Team, Thinking, Winning

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• As a journalist, you sort of grind away, taking rejections as they come, building on whatever advances you've achieved.

  Robert Draper

  Rejection, Building, Journalist

  "Books: 'Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush'". www.washingtonpost.com. September 11, 2007.

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• I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

  Art Donovan

  Football, School, College

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• Nima Shirazi's is an important progressive voice in the Iran debate in the West, often deconstructing the myths (and sometimes propaganda) we commonly encounter in the mainstream media. With succinct and elegant prose, and with no axe to grind, he exposes the hypocrisy of Western attitudes toward Iran.

  Hooman Majd

  Attitude, Media, Iran

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• We all have personalities, but in football a lot of times you don't talk about that because you want to focus more on the grit and grind of the season, instead of people's personal styles or worldly habits.

  Dhani Jones

  Football, People, Focus

  "Dhani Jones: "I'm Gonna Be The First Black James Bond"". Interview with Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. December 10, 2009.

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• The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.

  Charles A. Beard

  Mills, Irish Proverbs

  "Condensed History Lesson" by Arthur H. Secord, Readers' Digest, Volume 38, No. 226, February 1941.

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• What is drawing? How does one get there? It's working one's way through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. How can one get through that wall? - since hammering on it doesn't help at all. In my view, one must undermine the wall and grind through it slowly and patiently.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wall, Iron, Drawing

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• Crisis and my experience of Punk Rock in Britain/Europe was anything and everything but "fun" and this sort of idea comes from people who were either not there at the time, or were and have an axe of some kind or another to grind about their own experiences with Crisis. The years between 1977 and 1980 were some of the hardest of my Life and they certainly contributed to Tony and I wanting to destroy the group in 1980 and head for sunnier pastures artistically, culturally, and whatever else we could find.

  Douglas Pearce

  Fun, Rocks, Years

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• Have you noticed that they put advertisements in with your bills now? Like bills aren't distasteful enough, they have to stuff junk mail in there with them. I get back at them. I put garbage in with my check when I mail it in. Coffee grinds, banana peels...I write, "Could you throw this away for me?"

  Andy Rooney

  Coffee, Writing, Junk

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• I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

  Florence Nightingale

  Hero, Nursing, Nurse

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• Take the universe and grind it down to the finest powder and sieve it through the finest sieve and then show me one atom of justice, one molecule of mercy. and yet... and yet you act as if there is some ideal order in the world, as if there is some... some rightness in the universe by which it may be judged.

  Terry Pratchett

  Order, Justice, Molecules

  "Fictional character: Death". "Terry Pratchett's Hogfather", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Though most people love to look at the games of the great attacking masters, some of the most successful players in history have been the quiet positional players. They slowly grind you down by taking away your space, tying up your pieces, and leaving you with virtually nothing to do!

  Yasser Seirawan

  Success, Player, Games

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• When the machine grinds to a halt, the cogs themselves begin wondering about their function.

  Ken Knabb

  Cogs, Machines, Wonder

  Ken Knabb (1997). “Public Secrets”

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