Richard Griffiths quote: "I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech."

My father taught me things about body language that psychologists have been catching up with ever si...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS

Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would ...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS

Winning is something you've dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it's no ...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS

You only got 30 days of free speech in Montgomery County.
RICHARD GRIFFITHS

I've had a year out of work, more, and just toughed it out. There are those who think that all a...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS

I like playing Vernon Dursley in 'Harry Potter,' because that gives me a license to be horri...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS

I went from being a beanpole - like a normal kid of the 1950s - and exploded. The weight piled on an...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS

Actors do have good and bad sides. It's because the passage down the birth canal distorts the fa...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS

It was a succession of all of these pledge things from around the state that made us stop and say ma...
RICHARD GRIFFITHS

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of...
JAY GRIFFITHS

Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal d...
JAY GRIFFITHS

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, ...
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how...
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want y...
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

I'm developing some screenplays at the moment with my Australian producer.
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who a...
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

But just playing the partner of someone famous, I had a lot more freedom.
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story.
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

And I grew up watching all the British ones so when you hear that from an early age, it makes it muc...
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports th...
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bu...
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they be...
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of smal...
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

I talked my parents into sending me to Roedean at 16. I had this idea that if I could get into Cambr...
LUCY GRIFFITHS

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alo...
BEDE GRIFFITHS

I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means ...
BEDE GRIFFITHS

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - ...
BEDE GRIFFITHS

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each on...
BEDE GRIFFITHS

I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who had been seeking God, but God who had been seeking...
BEDE GRIFFITHS

The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so some...
BEDE GRIFFITHS

I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not...
BEDE GRIFFITHS

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the s...
BEDE GRIFFITHS

I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinforme...
JAY GRIFFITHS

God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge...
BEDE GRIFFITHS

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in diff...
JAY GRIFFITHS

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and ...
RACHEL GRIFFITHS

My biggest fear is looking weak, girly, and pathetic.
LUCY GRIFFITHS

I had made a god of my own reason... Even if theoretically I now acknowledged the authority of God a...
BEDE GRIFFITHS

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the ...
BEDE GRIFFITHS

Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 I suddenly saw that all the time it was not I who...
BEDE GRIFFITHS

You must be ready to give up everything, not only material attachments but also human attachments - ...
BEDE GRIFFITHS

All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness...
JAY GRIFFITHS

We cannot stress how important it is for people to make sure that they strictly follow the bio-secur...
ARTHUR GRIFFITHS

If he had not moved us both further up the road, I dread to think what would have happened.
ARTHUR GRIFFITHS

Timber is my hero and undoubtedly saved my life,
ARTHUR GRIFFITHS

It's the ultimate reality television show. I don't know many people who can say they've seen an eagl...
ARTHUR GRIFFITHS

Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, c...
JAY GRIFFITHS

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of ...
JAY GRIFFITHS

At the earlier Methodist class meetings, members were expected every week to answer some extremely p...
MICHAEL GRIFFITHS

The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When ...
JAY GRIFFITHS

Clarkson unreservedly apologizes for the distress and embarrassment she has caused the claimant and ...
DAVID GRIFFITHS

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.
JAY GRIFFITHS

Once you lose six or seven players, it impinges on your bench. That is not to be disrespectful to th...
CLIVE GRIFFITHS

My hunch is BP and Shell won't fall, but they won't rise much. That makes it difficult for London to...
ROBIN GRIFFITHS

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is...
JAY GRIFFITHS

A lot of environmentalists we dealt with were kooks. They were not well educated; they were opiniona...
JIM GRIFFITHS

Historically, cocaine was a fairly rare drug in Europe. Then in Britain, the Netherlands and Spain i...
PAUL GRIFFITHS

Personally I feel it is really disappointing for a great friend and colleague. But professionally th...
CLIVE GRIFFITHS

Tom's a bit quieter, with a wry sense of humor, ... Art, I think, is a little more ebullient.
DAVID GRIFFITHS

I want to repay the people at the Libra Foundation for their terrific investment in Aroostook County...
DAVE GRIFFITHS

We have got to constantly push for innovation,
DAVID GRIFFITHS

Many consumers dismiss hotel suites as solely for celebrities and expense-account business travelers...
TOM GRIFFITHS

People try to fight them and end up drowning.
TOM GRIFFITHS

Since her murder, parents are terrified of their children going backpacking.
TOM GRIFFITHS

I would handle the fish if I could. Just to make them friendly.
TOM GRIFFITHS

I don't think we can afford to lose that kind of brainpower.
GARY GRIFFITHS

Before I leave this Earth, I would like to know they have given women the same benefits and promotio...
MARTHA GRIFFITHS

You either end up on a good, fun show that's successful, or you have that question mark in your ...
LUCY GRIFFITHS

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it i...
JAY GRIFFITHS

And we were taught to play golf. Golf epitomizes the tame world. On a golf course nature is neutered...
JAY GRIFFITHS

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intent...
MARTHA GRIFFITHS

We're going to be fine.
DAVE GRIFFITHS

He had nothing left after that.
DAVE GRIFFITHS

Once again Ron (Perkins), Don (Meyer) and John (Brisson) did a wonderful job getting those kids read...
DAVE GRIFFITHS

She accepts that the story, which she sold to the newspaper, was an entire fabrication on her part a...
DAVID GRIFFITHS

The States was almost like college for me - I got away from home and learned how to do things for my...
DAVID GRIFFITHS

For the average 18-, 19- or 20-year-old, they are history,
DAVID GRIFFITHS

a joy to have in class.
DAVID GRIFFITHS

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind...
JAY GRIFFITHS

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors di...
JAY GRIFFITHS

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people....
JAY GRIFFITHS

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for societ...
JAY GRIFFITHS

There is a danger there: Gordon D'Arcy will cut you and I rate Shane Horgan as well.
CLIVE GRIFFITHS

The Irish have to sort out their own concerns rather than fire bullets at us.
CLIVE GRIFFITHS

New Edge Networks welcomes Technology Infrastructure Solutions into the growing Retail Broadband All...
GREG GRIFFITHS

Most of the elapsed time in a credit card authorization is on initiating and establishing the connec...
GREG GRIFFITHS

Price was probably the main driver; we had a fixed budget.
GRANT GRIFFITHS

We did have the Microsoft SMS package here, years and years ago, and it was full of bugs and caused ...
GRANT GRIFFITHS

We thought we were right on top of ... the number of devices we had. We found we weren't.
GRANT GRIFFITHS

All kids deserve an opportunity. We're not accountable for where we're born into, but we are account...
GARY GRIFFITHS

The high schools that we have, and it's not just locally but nationally, are designed for a differen...
GARY GRIFFITHS

Kids need to be connected to the school and they need to feel someone cares about them. In a large s...
GARY GRIFFITHS

It can be a disaster if you don't achieve that.
GARY GRIFFITHS

We looked carefully at the design, including where and how we integrate the antennas. There will be ...
JAMES GRIFFITHS

The SIM will be underneath the battery. And our batteries are easier to remove than phone batteries.
JAMES GRIFFITHS

The stock index is being let down by oil majors such as BP and Royal Dutch Shell. The price of crude...
IAN GRIFFITHS

The Winter Haven Chain of Lakes is obviously going down pretty good, but it is about where it should...
ROGER GRIFFITHS

Calculate the fine structure constant from first principles.
DAVID J. GRIFFITHS

The summer I turned eleven, I found out that ghosts are real.
Guess it's hard to rest nice and...
KIMBERLEY GRIFFITHS LITTLE

The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection ...
RICHARD CARMONA

One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our...
RICHARD BACH

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
RICHARD CECIL

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business...
RICHARD BRANSON

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
RICHARD WAGNER

There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in th...
RICHARD O'BRIEN

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes ...
RICHARD AVEDON

Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
RICHARD LEAKEY

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
RICHARD BACH

Learning is finding out what you already know.
RICHARD BACH

Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
RICHARD BACH

Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
RICHARD BACH

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
RICHARD BACH

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
RICHARD BACH

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting a...
RICHARD BACH

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your unders...
RICHARD BACH

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities ...
RICHARD HAMMOND

All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN

No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how...
RICHARD JEFFERIES

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought...
RICHARD BRANSON

Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinkin...
RICHARD SERRA

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpilla...
RICHARD BACH

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
RICHARD BACH

If I never do another thing, I've met the good, sweet people of the world.
RICHARD DAWSON

I've had the most incredible luck in my career.
RICHARD DAWSON

'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.
RICHARD DAWSON

It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy ...
RICHARD DAWSON

I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.
RICHARD DAWSON

The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had n...
RICHARD DAWSON

They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.
RICHARD DAWSON

There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that&...
RICHARD DAWSON

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go...
RICHARD DAWSON

You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.
RICHARD DAWSON

It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!
RICHARD DAWSON

And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... Go...
RICHARD DAWSON

God bless all the little children in the world.
RICHARD DAWSON

About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.
RICHARD DAWSON

Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.
RICHARD DAWSON

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
RICHARD DAWSON

Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
RICHARD MASUR

You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I...
RICHARD MASUR

Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you ...
RICHARD MASUR

I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so ...
RICHARD MASUR

You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.
RICHARD MASUR

No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an...
RICHARD MASUR

Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway ridi...
RICHARD MASUR

But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. A...
RICHARD MASUR

There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.
RICHARD MASUR

For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sale...
RICHARD MASUR

The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training grou...
RICHARD MASUR

I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wea...
RICHARD SIMMONS

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...
RICHARD DAWKINS

Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message ...
RICHARD GRASSO

For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless...
RICHARD ENGEL

To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't ju...
RICHARD SHERMAN

I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought t...
RICHARD SHERMAN

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had...
RICHARD MARX

For my wife Mary Corliss and me, 'Colbert' has been destination viewing. Even in the early y...
RICHARD CORLISS

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that ...
RICHARD COURANT

Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor u...
RICHARD MOURDOCK

I think the humor of double puns is incredible.
RICHARD LEDERER

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to...
RICHARD BRANSON

I've been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and i...
RICHARD BRANSON

A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.
RICHARD BRANSON

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
RICHARD BRANSON

One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
RICHARD BRANSON

Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the peopl...
RICHARD BRANSON

A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does...
RICHARD AVEDON

If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such lib...
RICHARD LOVELACE

Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
RICHARD DAWKINS

It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right?...
RICHARD ROHR

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance abo...
RICHARD CORLISS

I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castl...
RICHARD MATHESON

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
RICHARD GERE

I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show ...
RICHARD FLEESHMAN

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doi...
RICHARD ROXBURGH

Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to tu...
RICHARD LOUV

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD

I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for tho...
RICHARD MACDONALD

Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were ...
RICHARD FOREMAN

But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potentia...
RICHARD SERRA

I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a b...
RICHARD RODGERS

I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I wa...
RICHARD MARX

Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance...
RICHARD STALLMAN

Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its pro...
RICHARD NEAL

The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the fi...
RICHARD PRYOR

There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will...
RICHARD CORLISS

If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck an...
RICHARD CORLISS

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
RICHARD WRIGHT

I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.
RICHARD O'BRIEN

I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able...
RICHARD SERRA

The Saudis, and in some cases the CIA, had encouraged and funded their foreign jihads, and these men...
RICHARD ENGEL

I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

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I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.

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