Grain Quotes

We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

All the writers and producers around us that gave us the environment where we could play. They were able to provide us with a place where we could take chances to play with things, go against the grain and do things that people don't always do.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

I've never had any real big blow-ups. I go against the grain. Hey, it's life, I'm happy.

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids' diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We don't buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.

Here we grow the flax and grain; here we raise the meat they eat, and the wool to keep them warm; we cut trees to build their houses and firewood to heat their stoves.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

It goes against the grain of modern education to teach students to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline, organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self critical.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.

I have not been able to get any grain yet. It is all in the country, and the people talk instead of working.

Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.

But we didn't have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that.

We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.