Ground Quotes

My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.

I must confess that, at that time, I had absolutely no knowledge of the slowness of the relaxation processes in the ground state, processes which take place in collisions with the wall or with the molecules of a foreign gas.

The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

But you talk to most filmmakers and it is six, seven, eight years trying to get things off the ground. It is incredible really.

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

But a lot of that kind of work is done pre-flight, coordinating efforts with the flight directors and the ground teams, and figuring out how you're going to operate together.

No commander in chief would ever say, 'I'm not going to listen to the guys on the ground.'

I try to ground most of my characters in reality somehow. That's kind of what I bring to the table.

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

It is the same to me, whether I rot in the air or in the ground. The earth is the Lord's.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

Literally, if someone says I am grounded, everyday I am at home, I actually have my hands in the ground and dirt under my fingernails. I don't have a staff to do it all for me. I still plant a seed and I'm amazed it grows.

I had a tough time 12 years ago getting 'Driving Miss Daisy' off the ground. Today, it would be impossible.

I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

Gay sex is a veritable breeding ground for disease.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.

There are many domestic issues that give us a lot of common ground to work on. Health, education and immigration are among the areas where we share mutual goals and aspirations. There are also many values that we share as a communities.

Ageism works in both directions. As a teenager in the public eye, people would talk condescendingly to me. When you get older there's this feeling that you have to start carving up your face and body. Right now I'm in the middle ground - I think women in their thirties are taken seriously.

I still when I wake up hit the ground running; and having an illness, I'm only one of hundreds of thousands of people that live with an illness, and I'm just in awe of the bravery and dignity of the people I see at the hospital.

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.