What I love about comedians is their instinct is always to go against the grain. Their whole existence is pointing out the elephant in the room. Already you can see audiences are pushing back, but we're the ones who really can take it more than anybody.
Years ago I sang on a track using that voice and someone asked, 'Who is that terribly depressed man'. . . But Patrick loved it. He said, 'You sound like a young boy, like a child, like an old woman, like an old man,' and really, we all have all of those things inside of us. I don't do any vocal gymnastics to make the voice better as I age. If it comes out rougher, then it's true to what's happening. Singing is who I am. I didn't train for it, any more than I trained for anything else I did. I probably should take better care of myself physically, but it goes against the grain.
Joseph built the pyramids in order to store grain. Now, all the archeologists think that they were made for the pharaoh's graves. But, you know, it would have to be something awfully big, when you stop and think about it - and I don't think it would just disappear over the course of time - to store that much grain.
Put a grain of boldness into everything you do.
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
The idea is that of the earth not only becoming covered with myriad grains of thought, but becoming enclosed in a single thinking envelope so as to form, functionally, no more than a single vast grain of thought on the sidereal scale, the plurality of individual reflections grouping themselves together and reinforcing one another in the act of a single unanimous reflection. . . A new domain of psychical expansion- that is what we lack. And it is staring us in the face if we would only raise our heads to look at it.
Mankind. . . possesses two supreme blessings. First of these is the goddess Demeter, or Earth whichever name you choose to call her by. It was she who gave to man his nourishment of grain. But after her there came the son of Semele, who matched her present by inventing liquid wine as his gift to man. For filled with that good gift, suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.
A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.
I'd rather have none at all than a grain too much.
Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.
Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, But good men starve for want of impudence.
What I propose for the "life of a poet" goes against the grain of the fossil fuel monoculture. Maybe the most revolutionary act these days is not to watch television and to read a book a day at least.
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time;. . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.
Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things and finds one's Self-this is supreme happiness. When it is found, nothing else remains to be found; the sense of want will not awaken anymore, and the heart's torment will be stilled forever. Do not be satisfied with fragmentary happiness, which is invariably interrupted by shocks and blows of fate; but become complete, and having attained to perfection, be YOURSELF.
Why cover the same ground again?. . . It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.
The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.
All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided.