Grinding Quotes

When I got a lap dance, because I was 17, they had to put a massive pillow between me and the girl when she was grinding me. It was weird, yet pleasurable. In reference to working on the film _Girl Next Door, The (2004)_.

Before the US (2006) mid-term elections, my rabbi was taking a lot of flak. The congregation is exclusive-liberal, yet he is a self-described independent (read "conservative") and he was driving the flock wild. Why? Because a) he never discussed politics; and b) he taught that the quality of political discourse must be addressed first; that Jewish law teaches that it is incumbent upon one to hear the other fellow out. `So I, like many of the liberal congregation, began - teeth grinding - to attempt to do so. And in doing so I recognised that I held two views of America. `One was of a state where everything was magically wrong and must be immediately corrected at any cost; and the other (the world in which I actually functioned day to day) was made up of people who were in the main reasonably trying to maximise their comfort by getting along with one another (in the workplace, the marketplace, the jury room, even the school meeting). `And I realised that the time had come for me to avow my participation in the country in which I chose to live - and that this country was not a schoolroom teaching values, but a marketplace.

You`re going to go out there and you may feel good, you may feel bad; that really doesn`t matter, ... You have to go out and make pitches. Sometimes it may take five pitches to get that one out, but you`ve got to keep grinding it. With our team, anything can happen.

It`s just great to see our starters going deep in games and our bullpen getting some confidence. Now, all we need to do is keep grinding, get some hitters back, and I think we`ll be fine.

(on Spencer Tracy) What an actor should be is exemplified, for me, by him. I like the reality of his acting. It`s so honest and seems so effortless, even though what Tracy does is the result of damn hard work and extreme concentration. Actually, the ultimate in any art is never to show the wheels grinding. The essence of bad acting, for example, is shouting. Tracy never shouts. He`s the greatest movie actor there ever was.

I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.

Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding, rendered speechless by emotion!

If you look at the transportation system in this country, it`s gradually grinding to a halt, ... Now you`ve got the price of fuel going through the roof, and we`ve got a whole transportation system that`s built on cheap fuel. One of the ways to solve some of the fuel problems cheaply is right here.

When you`re away from the course, obviously things are a little bit different. But when you`re at the course, you`re playing, you`re grinding. Today, I`m preparing. I have enough on my mind out there trying to place my shots, and what angles I need to have, or where I need to be for certain pins, and stuff like that.

Grinding, touching -- they think it`s going to be like stripping. Kids don`t want to do that. They just want to have fun and dance.