Emm Gryner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

  • Happiness is a state of activity.

  • Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door.

  • Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

  • I personally go to the airport looking like a homeless person, because I think people will leave me alone. But I dress myself with my luggage - all my luggage matches.

  • Every time you take a train, step into your car, walk into the shopping mall, go to the airport - every single time, something could happen. That's how terrorism works.

  • I'm one of those passengers who arrives at the airport five or six hours early so I can throw back a few drinks and muster up the courage to board the plane. Apparently I'm not alone because I've never been in an empty airport bar. I don't care what time you get there. Even at 8:00 a.m. you have to fight your way to the bar. At that hour, everyone drinks Bloody Marys so no one can tell it's booze- at least until they fall off their chair.

  • When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British.

  • I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that.

  • It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that.