Spalding Gray Quote

When Mom had her first nervous breakdown, she said she had a vision of Christ coming to her in the l...
SPALDING GRAY

What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logi...
SPALDING GRAY

The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you ...
SPALDING GRAY

I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis' there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster th...
SPALDING GRAY

I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that ever...
SPALDING GRAY

[NEW YORK (CNN) -- In his monologue] Swimming to Cambodia, ... Thailand, the Pure Land.
SPALDING GRAY

I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.
SPALDING GRAY

I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting ...
SPALDING GRAY

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would ha...
SPALDING GRAY

everything is contingent, and there is also chaos
SPALDING GRAY

Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiin...
SPALDING GRAY

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off t...
SPALDING GRAY

I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.
SPALDING GRAY

I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor....
SPALDING GRAY

I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at tha...
SPALDING GRAY

Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You ca...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

I was exposed to many kinds of music including rock and disco, classical and folk, Midtown and Miles...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be ...
AL SPALDING

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.
AL SPALDING

Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything el...
AL SPALDING

Baseball is a man maker.
AL SPALDING

Baseball gives a growing boy self poise and self reliance.
AL SPALDING

Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, ...
AL SPALDING

For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. I...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

I always say that the problem with jazz accessibility is not the content of the music, it's peop...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

I love Aretha Franklin, Edith Piaf, Blondie.
ESPERANZA SPALDING

I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentali...
AL SPALDING

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. Ther...
CHARLES SPALDING

I'm really happy with our pitching right now. We had a few defensive lapses, but you have to expect ...
CHAD SPALDING

I think some of our players have the jitters out in the field. It's the first year of varsity for se...
CHAD SPALDING

I wanted our team to be pressed some this year. We have some tough stretches in our schedule this ye...
CHAD SPALDING

Having two triples in one inning is something that is unheard of in my time with the team. Tyler jus...
CHAD SPALDING

Jake pitched a great game. It's a shame we let them back in it. It's good that Tyler was able to get...
CHAD SPALDING

It's so important at the high school level to be able to get the ball over the plate. This staff wil...
CHAD SPALDING

He's definitely one of the top pitchers in the region. But after facing the tough pitcher we saw at ...
CHAD SPALDING

Other than that inning, we didn't play too badly. I thought the first six innings were very promisin...
CHAD SPALDING

There's a lot of competition for these spots. I think every player understands that there are two or...
CHAD SPALDING

This was a fun game to watch. There were some exciting plays and just good competitive baseball. I t...
CHAD SPALDING

You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I ...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

I just want to say, if you're going crazy, take a break. I felt overwhelmed by stuff that wasn&#...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

If you don't already know about jazz music, how would you be exposed? How would get an opportuni...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

It was as simple as this: The Kennedys had a feeling of being heightened and it rubbed off on the pe...
CHARLES SPALDING

Overall, I would have to give this effort a B minus, but for the first five innings we were better t...
CHAD SPALDING

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
ESPERANZA SPALDING

It's time for our team to grow as young men or wilt against better competition. We're going to face ...
CHAD SPALDING

We were more ready to play than I even thought we were going in. Even during the infield/outfield dr...
CHAD SPALDING

I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is t...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.
LAVINIA SPALDING

One of our players had a really tough night. Other than that we showed we could compete with a quali...
CHAD SPALDING

I think there's so much negative influence on children in school settings. It becomes learning b...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

On nights that I'm feeling a need to stretch personally and artistically, I tend to put together...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

There's nothing wrong with struggle. Anytime I look back at a difficult phase of my life and see...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

We will go on with the gallery. Our first show will prominently feature Newman's work.
DOUG SPALDING

Newman was a healer. He spent the last two months struggling with how to heal St. Albans. He was suc...
DOUG SPALDING

This town was just so important to him. Newman was the quiet person in the background, always doing ...
DOUG SPALDING

To hold this meeting, days before voting and the town meeting, is a slap in the face to the people o...
DOUG SPALDING

He knew it was a team as much as anybody else did. He's quick to say how well anybody else is doing.
BRYCE SPALDING

I'm always astounded by what he can do. He has complete body control when he's in the air.
BRYCE SPALDING

I go places and people are congratulating me left and right. Old teachers, other people I know in th...
BRYCE SPALDING

We put on a show.
CHAD SPALDING

You watched these people go through their lives and just had a feeling that they existed outside the...
CHARLES SPALDING

We get benefit by serving our members which, of course, drives more business towards us. If we are p...
DAVE SPALDING

We think it's the future; we're making a lot of investments to stay at the front end of, really, a v...
DAVE SPALDING

Putting it in the state constitution doesn't save it.
LARRY SPALDING

If this bill is enacted, I would have no hesitation to recommend a challenge.
LARRY SPALDING

If that was true, we wouldn't see any death sentences coming out of Texas unanimous jury required...
LARRY SPALDING

The judges in this state are responsible people. They do a good job. Leave them alone.
LARRY SPALDING

The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter yo...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.
ESPERANZA SPALDING

There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities tha...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

I grew up with an incredibly loving and supportive family that gave me the impression there were a l...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

There's enough time in the day: If you go to bed at 10 and start your day at 6, there's a lo...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.
ESPERANZA SPALDING

I don't think it's about playing and singing, to be honest. That seems like old news, you kn...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

It's about process, the process of growth. It seems to me in my own life - and other minds throu...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the s...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

It's a pity that if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or do...
ESPERANZA SPALDING

Genre boundaries are good for marketing but they all but disappear when you're a player.
ESPERANZA SPALDING

We're not unreasonable. We expect people to ask for help if they have to lift something heavy.
TRAVIS SPALDING

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cann...
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt ...
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cann...
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING

The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt ...
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING

Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself ...
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING

She's from out of town, and it was just given to her from her parents from out of town and they got ...
DR. THERESA SPALDING

We were very concerned as soon as we heard about the positive testing late this evening.
DR. THERESA SPALDING

Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
THOMAS GRAY

I write in the studio.
MACY GRAY

I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every ...
MACY GRAY

I've never met anyone that is their image.
MACY GRAY

Being God would be the ultimate.
MACY GRAY

Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
MACY GRAY

Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
MACY GRAY

The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with ...
MACY GRAY

I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
MACY GRAY

You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don...
MACY GRAY

This year, each game, we want to go out and give our best. Our goal right now is to finish in the up...
AL GRAY

There's a freshman who Aaron has taken under his wing. He's done an excellent job with him, teaching...
AL GRAY

How we do this year really depends on our pitching. We can play defensively, and we can score runs. ...
AL GRAY

If you drop it, it implies that everything is OK. We don't want to give people a false sense of secu...
AL GRAY

We've gotten a whole lot of calls.
AL GRAY

. . where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
THOMAS GRAY

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
THOMAS GRAY

Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]
THOMAS GRAY

Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race; Give ample room and ve...
THOMAS GRAY

I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac...
JAMES GRAY

Remember, these concessions were made over a five-year period; that's very, very modest. And they ha...
ALBERT GRAY

What it should convey is that this is a material that is carefully processed and tightly regulated, ...
ALBERT GRAY

Where it's coming from, I can't tell you. There's a lot of stirred up and muddy water going through ...
ALBERT GRAY

It's about twice where we would issue a warning.
ALBERT GRAY

Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the des...
ALBERT GRAY

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do
ALBERT GRAY

While bright-eyed science watches round.
THOMAS GRAY

And to hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast, and calm repose. . . . . From ...
THOMAS GRAY

The draft process will provide me a great learning experience and will help me become a better playe...
AARON GRAY

In discussing my options the last couple of weeks with my family and Coach Dixon, I feel that it is ...
AARON GRAY

Without any pressing issues, there won't be a lot of change. Most people are pretty happy with who i...
AARON GRAY

There is so much stuff I can take away from this season and go back and look at. I learned about how...
AARON GRAY

All the great people learn from the people before them. Chris took one approach and did things the w...
AARON GRAY

I couldn't believe when he hit that last 3-pointer from about 15 feet beyond the line, but what can ...
AARON GRAY

They got me tired, but I had to push through it. There are points in the game where my teammates fee...
AARON GRAY

I felt confident. Ever since the Marquette game, every day I've been working on my free throws befor...
AARON GRAY

It's a great achievement. It's a great compliment to my team. I couldn't have done it without them. ...
AARON GRAY

Lacrosse is fast paced and I like fast paced games. It's demanding physically and has the hardest co...
AARON GRAY

Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
THOMAS GRAY

Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts is lawful prize, Not all that glis...
THOMAS GRAY

They had finished her own crown in glory, and she couldn't stay away from the coronation.
THOMAS GRAY

The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awai...
THOMAS GRAY

Some village Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, ...
THOMAS GRAY

Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour The bad affright, afflic...
THOMAS GRAY

When your courtyard twists, do not pour the water abroad.
THOMAS GRAY

No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There th...
THOMAS GRAY

They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
THOMAS GRAY

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory w...
ASA GRAY

And maybe just a little," he smirks, "why, are you an easy drunk?" he cocks his head to the side, in...
KATHEY GRAY

You can kid the world, but not your sister.
CHARLOTTE GRAY

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day," Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well eno...
CLAUDIA GRAY

All of my best friends are dead people. Someday I've got to figure out how that happened.
CLAUDIA GRAY

Men are motivated and empowered when they feel needed. Women are motivated and empowered when they f...
JOHN GRAY

Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.
JOHN GRAY

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather ...
JOHN GRAY

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blosso...
JOHN GRAY

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.
THOMAS GRAY

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do ...
JOHN GRAY

Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea o...
JOHN GRAY

Alas, regardless of their doom,
the little victims play!
No sense have they of ills to come, THOMAS GRAY

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
THOMAS GRAY

Everybody except us is running for governor.
BARRY GRAY

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.
ALBERT GRAY

Far from the madding crowd
THOMAS GRAY

A favorite has no friend!
THOMAS GRAY

The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
THOMAS GRAY

Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too ...
THOMAS GRAY

Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield: Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke: How ...
THOMAS GRAY

Some bold adventurers disdain The limits of their little reign, And unknown regions date descr...
THOMAS GRAY

Cats were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man.
PAUL GRAY

From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.
THOMAS GRAY

To warm their little loves the birds complain.
THOMAS GRAY

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune.
THOMAS GRAY

The Attic warbler pours her throat Responsive to the cuckoo's note.
THOMAS GRAY

What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish?
THOMAS GRAY

Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In ...
THOMAS GRAY

To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, ...
THOMAS GRAY

Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
THOMAS GRAY

Tho' he inherit Not the pride, nor ample pinion, That the Theban eagle bear, Sailing wit...
THOMAS GRAY

To brisk notes in cadence beating Glance their many-twinkling feet.
THOMAS GRAY

In life we dont get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able t...
FARRAH GRAY

Your feelings wouldn't get hurt if you were honest with yourself
TY GRAY

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plou...
THOMAS GRAY

'Apocalypse Now' does not alienate us or deconstruct itself. In fact, it welcomes us in.
JAMES GRAY

As ugly an admission as this is, I met my wife at a party, and if I had been to the same party and s...
JAMES GRAY

The system is not really particularly amenable to filmmakers who write and direct their own work. It...
JAMES GRAY

Alas, regardless of their doom, the little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, nor car...
THOMAS GRAY

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
THOMAS GRAY

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.
THOMAS GRAY

Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and ...
GRAY SCOTT

The mobile revolution has dramatically changed our world view, empowered women, and increased our em...
GRAY SCOTT

We are afraid of ourselves and our own unconscious minds. When we are building something that reflec...
GRAY SCOTT

Technology will mirror the culture and the psychology creating it. We need new psychological scaffol...
GRAY SCOTT

Immortality may be impossible, but imagine what humanity could learn if we all lived 700 years. We c...
GRAY SCOTT

We're going to become caretakers for the robots. That's what the next generation of work is ...
GRAY SCOTT

Watch a child play, and you will see real power. They are fearless.
GRAY SCOTT

We are increasingly becoming cyborg-like beings. We are becoming literally what we create. Biology, ...
GRAY SCOTT

I don't think that an artificially intelligent system that has superhuman intelligence will be v...
GRAY SCOTT

It's a physical thing that can grab a hold of data and literally rearrange our lives by changing...
GRAY SCOTT

These machines are going to reflect our species and our evolutionary process. Everything we are will...
GRAY SCOTT

We do know that we can set certain algorithms for machines to do certain things - now that may be a ...
GRAY SCOTT

The main thing I'm concerned with right now, is getting people to understand that the Internet o...
GRAY SCOTT

To understand the future of technology, we need to begin with one fundamental truth: Technology is n...
GRAY SCOTT

In 'Chappie,' you see this sort of young robot that's learning through maybe 'deep l...
GRAY SCOTT

Who gets to decide the robotic bill of rights? It's going to be controversial.
GRAY SCOTT

Negative and pessimistic views of technology have always existed. I can just imagine some pessimisti...
GRAY SCOTT

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could ...
LINDA GRAY

I like exercise. I like a healthy body.
ERIN GRAY

The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that c...
GRAY SCOTT

That's right", she says, wiping tears from her cheeks. "You weren't with me that time I walked in on...
CLAUDIA GRAY

The greatest thing that happens to me when I'm skiing is the harmony. The only time I was ever present in my body before was in sex, performing, drugs and with the sea. Skiing became the new and healthy way of being present - although I don't know if it's healthy, I could sever my spinal cord.

Spalding Gray

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