Quotations

"Well, I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves. Judgment is very easy, but I think, on the whole, professional critics maybe see too much, and compare too much, and forget the joy of actually looking and contemplating for its own sake."

— Antony Gormley, English sculptor, born 1950

"Masters of marriage are not those who never have conflict, it's those who know how to repair conflict as often as necessary to return to connection."

— John Mordechai Gottman, American psychologist, born 1942

"Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous."

— Frederic Goudy, American type designer, born 1865

"When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all."

— Frederic Goudy, American type designer, born 1865

"Oh how we want to be taken and changed, want to be mended by what we enter."

— Jorie Graham, American poet, born 1950

"No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times."

— Martha Graham, American dancer, born 1894

"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are great because of their passion."

— Martha Graham, American dancer, born 1894

"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant."

— Cary Grant, English-American actor, born 1904

"Do not mistake the pointing finger for the moon."

— Terence Gray, Taoist philosopher, born 1895

"If there is anyone at home to suffer, they will."

— Terence Gray, English Taoist philosopher, born 1895

"Disciples and devotees… what are most of them doing? Worshiping the teapot instead of drinking the tea!"

— Terence Gray, English Taoist philosopher, born 1895

"Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn’t one."

— Terence Gray, English Taoist philosopher, born 1895

"When death comes, we take off our clothes and gather everything we left behind: what is dark, broken, touched with shame.
When Death demands we give an accounting, naked we present our lives in bundles. See how much these weigh, we tell him, refusing to deny what we have lived.
Everything that is touched by light loves the light. We the stubborn-as-grass, we who reel at the taste of sap and want our spirits cleansed, will not betray the weeds, snake, or crippled mare. Never leave behind what the light shone on."

— Linda Gregg, American poet, born 1942

"I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark."

— Dick Gregory, American comedian, born 1932