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Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft. -- Gordon Willis
Whoever gets up and comes to grips with Love like a boxer is a fool. -- Sophocles
I crave ideas, and when an idea hits me, it grips me and it tortures me until I master it. -- Gene Simmons
Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that. -- Chuck D
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people. -- Ralph Nader
We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality. -- Manmohan Singh
Congress has shortchanged not only foreign aid but foreign policy. A mistaken notion that diplomats are unimportant and hence undeserving of support grips conservative legislators, especially. -- Anthony Lewis
I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy. -- Elizabeth Edwards
I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it. -- Jo Brand
There's not one food that causes diabetes. What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes. -- Paula Deen
Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with. -- David Chalmers
Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy. -- Evgeny Morozov
I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swingweight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer. -- Lee Trevino
Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington. -- John C. Maxwell
To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many. -- Stanley Hauerwas
The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the 'I,' under another form, continues the task of existence. -- Gerard De Nerval
I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else. -- George Best
On a scale personal enough to be felt by all, but big enough to be symbolic, the two irreconcilable faiths of our time - Communism and Freedom - came to grips in the persons of two conscious and resolute men. -- Whittaker Chambers
Being the Republican front-runner was three of the most exciting hours of my entire life. I've come to grips with it, and the only lasting effect is that I refuse to go on a stage that has more than one podium on it. -- Rick Perry
My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help. -- Lech Walesa
The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living. -- D. H. Lawrence
There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free. -- Laura Wasser
Say what you will about Americans, but one thing they are not is passive. The Bush administration may have pushed through the Patriot Act weeks after 11 September, but, as the American public got to grips with how the law was affecting their individual rights, their protests grew loud and angry. -- Heather Brooke
I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swing weight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer. It also makes it difficult to hit the ball high enough for all situations. -- Lee Trevino
It is up to us, to this present generation of Americans, to take a stand for freedom, to send a message to Washington that we're taking our future back from the grips of central planners who would control our healthcare, who would spend our treasure, who downgrade our future and micro-manage our lives. -- Rick Perry
If you run a business, if you are responsible for a lot of people, you come to grips with the reality that you have to have discipline. You have to protect the enterprise in order to take care of the employees. So, therefore, you can't be wasteful. You can't squander things, or you jeopardize other people. -- Steve Wynn
When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source. Most people have difficulty coming to grips with the sheer enormity of energy consumption. -- Rex Tillerson
I still haven't come to grips with our success. -- Michael Hutchence
Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough. -- Johnny Miller
In modern times sound policy-making must often come to grips with numbers. -- Randal Marlin
Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood. -- Edvard Munch
Two armies at death-grips "? that is one great army committing suicide. -- Henri Barbusse
Only by coming to grips with difficulty can you realize your full potential. -- Charles de Gaulle
It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person. -- Billy Cannon
I feel a near passion for intelligence at grips with itself and not letting go. -- Monique Wittig
Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team. -- Scottie Pippen
I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.' -- Ashwin Sanghi
I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity. -- James Ellroy
I have earned hundreds of thousands of pounds, but I can't seem to get to grips with money. -- Rufus Wainwright
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted... -- Sigfried Giedion
What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about. -- Ruth Wilson
There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it. -- Arnold Friberg
Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I do think that when you make repeated mistakes, it's usually because you're just not coming to grips with something. -- Ben Folds
Right now I can't even control my own imagination as it grips my hair and drags me into the dark -- Tahereh Mafi
Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the wrong tool for every job. -- Bruce Eckel
Sometimes fear grips me that these fragile moments of life will fade away. It seems that I write against erasure. -- Assia Djebar
To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered. -- Lukas Foss
Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos. -- Anne Lamott
In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone -- Lily Tomlin
God makes us as broken bread and poured-out wine to please Him. Beware of competing calls once the call of God grips you. -- Oswald Chambers
Jennifer Palmieri and Joel Benenson and all these people on Hillary's [Clinton] side just can't come to grips with the fact that they lost. -- Rush Limbaugh
Jennifer Palmieri and Joel Benenson and all these people on Hillary's [Clinton] side just can't come to grips with the fact that they lost. -- Rush Limbaugh
Coming to grips with being a bit of a celebrity. That's not anything I ever expected to have to deal with in my life. -- Patrick Rothfuss
politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses. -- Roseanne Barr
I hired top-notch people, trusted them to do their jobs, and then came to grips with the fact that I wouldn't be coaching as much. -- Tony Dungy
I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me. -- Anthony Kiedis
The chances we take, knowing no better than to fall or to stand back and hold ourselves in... protecting our hearts with the tightest of grips. -- Sarah Dessen
[My poetry is] a way of coming to grips with reality . . . a way of discovery and definition. It is a way of solving for the unknowns. -- Robert Hayden
A man of character finds a special attractiveness in difficulty, since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities. -- Charles de Gaulle
Here we encounter two conflicting concepts with which we must come to grips in our time: the idea of national solidarity and the idea of international cooperation. -- Gustav Stresemann
The whole aim of Zen is not to make foolproof statements about experience, but to come to direct grips with reality without the mediation of logical verbalizing. -- Thomas Merton
That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm. -- Philip Guston
If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the destructiveness of our activities and institutions. -- David Suzuki
There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips. -- Earl Campbell
You don't need someone destroying you when your own people are the worst messengers possible. And this is what black people in America have not come to grips with. -- Geoffrey Canada
Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all. -- Catherynne M. Valente
We need to welcome the experimental creativity that is always searching out new ways of singing the Gospel, and banish the fear that grips us when familiar music passes away. -- Michael Adam Hamilton
Syria is already in the grips of a civil war, unfortunately enough, and Egypt is moving in that direction. We would like to see the Egyptian people avoid this fate -- Vladimir Putin
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God can use the fear that grips the hearts of men today to point them to eternal truths- the truth of God's eternal judgment, and the truth of His eternal love. -- Billy Graham
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes. -- Terence McKenna
I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but I'm still getting to grips with it. I prefer paper books. -- Ross Kemp
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, canâ??t sit still, move, or even go decently insane. -- Charles Bukowski
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy. -- Evgeny Morozov
A society remotely worth its salt eventually has to come to grips with the barbarism practiced upon helpless creatures in the name of scientific experimentation, tastier/tenderer meat, or more and larger eggs! -- William Kunstler
One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can't get help from your friends or family.You're finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on. -- Shirley Temple
You don't have to underestimate your audience anymore. They'd actually like to laugh a little bit. So, the character came to me and once it's got its grips in you, there's nowhere to go. -- Johnny Depp
Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason. -- Philip Pullman
It amazes me that some people who ordinarily can recognize autocratic bullying, tacky sloganeering, and - especially - camp value are unable to spot it in this Hate Scare that grips the Western world. -- Jim Goad
I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze. -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
They should set a very clear priority for the government. There is such a large penumbra of issues. The party needs to come to grips with the reality that it has to be coherent politically. -- Mahesh Rangarajan
Here's my answer to the very real existential crisis that grips me midway through everything I've ever tried to do: I think stories help us fight the nihilistic urges that constantly threaten to consume us. -- John Green

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