Grind Quotes

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Lenin

Between, Crush, Inflation

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard

God, Power, History

As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
Barry Gibb

Fun, Long, Moment

In any profession it gets to be a grind.
Denzel Washington

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.
Guy Kawasaki

Life, Secret, Talent

You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people.
Wentworth Miller

Educate, Confronted, Halt

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.
Andre Agassi

Work, Time, Nothing

There's times when I'll see a show, or something cooking on TV, and think, 'That can really be fun when it's working.' But it's a grind. I did that at NBC, it was five days a week. I was doing 'Talk Soup' and 'Later' at the same time. It's a hard job, more difficult than people realize.
Greg Kinnear

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
Alexei Sayle

Death, Try, Works

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.
Alexei Sayle

Death, Try, Works

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.
Wislawa Szymborska

Daily, Themselves, Read

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.
Michael Nesmith

Press, Publicity, Interviews

My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.
Emmanuelle Chriqui

Work, Successful, Hard

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.
Simon Baker

Work, Time, Down

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.
Martin Mull

Dreams, Daily, Reality

My confidence comes from the daily grind - training my butt off day in and day out.
Hope Solo

Daily, Confidence, Training

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.
Julian Barnes

Time, Book, Same

Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly.
Terry Waite

Justice, Sometimes, Wheels

Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages.
Austan Goolsbee

Giving, Together, Down

Anyone who undertakes the literary grind had better like playing around with words.
Roy Blount, Jr.

Words, Around, Playing

About every two minutes a new wave of planes would be over. The motors seemed to grind rather than roar, and to have an angry pulsation like a bee buzzing in blind fury.
Ernie Pyle

Angry, Two, Rather

I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
Gregory Peck

Entertain, Lecture, Axes

Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.
Anna Neagle

Long, Down, Enough

The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
Louis Agassiz

Work, Great, God

I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream.
Jane Birkin

Enough, Sometimes, Keep

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
Daniel D. Palmer

Past, Cannot, Water

Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
Young Buck

Struggle, Trying, Everybody

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.
Dean Ween

Morning, Fishing, Healthy

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
Princess Anne

Easy, Public, Expect

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