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Against The Grain Quotes

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The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society  (Against The Grain Quotes) To go against the grain is the secret of bravery  (Against The Grain Quotes) I’ve never had that fear of going against the grain  (Against The Grain Quotes) Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity  (Against The Grain Quotes) I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting  (Against The Grain Quotes) I don’t go against the grain because I’m a contrary person  (Against The Grain Quotes) Bouncing a sitting president requires conscious action, a national decision to redirect the country’s course. This cuts against the grain, and that’s why incumbents have a natural advantage.  (Against The Grain Quotes) I am a leader, so leaders always get heat. They’re always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you’re doing something right.  (Against The Grain Quotes) When I came here it wasn’t that I was anti-Music Row, but it was like I was going against the grain of what everybody on Music Row was doing, and that’s what has made me successful.  (Against The Grain Quotes) I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.  (Against The Grain Quotes) But we didn’t have the financial structure, like the right attorneys, the right managers, the right accountants, and we were going against the grain of what black entertainers is supposed to do.  (Against The Grain Quotes) I started doing up-and-down strumming, basically to keep time and to play fast. As time went on, I started realizing other guitar players couldn’t do it. I always went against the grain.  (Against The Grain Quotes) My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, ‘Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty. If you go against it, you have splinters - it breaks.’ And I took that as my view of life. You have to follow the grain - to be sensitive to the direction of life  (Against The Grain Quotes) I was always the weirdo who wanted to have an egalitarian service in synagogue and felt I was always going against the grain.  (Against The Grain Quotes) I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I’ve always challenged the standards set before me.  (Against The Grain Quotes) I like to go against the grain, against what’s out there. Every day is like a challenge.  (Against The Grain Quotes) In theatre, there’s the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it’s the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me  (Against The Grain Quotes) When I first read ‘On the Road,’ it helped me figure out how to live against the grain. Now I wonder how to be subversive when the subversive has become mainstream  (Against The Grain Quotes) I’ve never had any real big blow-ups. I go against the grain. Hey, it’s life, I’m happy  (Against The Grain Quotes) I think that’s why I gravitated toward slightly broader... ummm, more conceptual kinds of movies, Underworld and Van Helsing. That was as much as I could actually give. But you’re actually more of an animated figure. It does go against the grain, as an actor  (Against The Grain Quotes) Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that’s been a place of hope  (Against The Grain Quotes) You can’t go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters  (Against The Grain Quotes) The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life  (Against The Grain Quotes) This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.  (Against The Grain Quotes) I can’t help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker  (Against The Grain Quotes) I’m the rebel totally going against the grain. I always want to do the extreme. I want to get as many people looking as possible.  (Against The Grain Quotes) Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don’t like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.  (Against The Grain Quotes) It’s not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group. It doesn’t always turn out.  (Against The Grain Quotes) Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea creativity and stupid are interchangeable because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going against the grain, and leaning into risk and fear.  (Against The Grain Quotes) Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea . . . creativity and stupid are interchangeable . . . because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going against the grain, and leaning into risk and fear.  (Against The Grain Quotes)
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