I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

I've never had any real big blow-ups. I go against the grain. Hey, it's life, I'm happy.

I always went left to what everybody else was doing. I'm used to going against the grain.

Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.

I can't help but go against the grain, I suppose it is in my fabric to be a rule-breaker.

Fairly tales are myths, and myths are only myths because there's a grain of truth in them.

One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.

It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

On weekends, I do brunch at home: whole grain bagels, lox, avocado, eggs, and organic bacon.

It is necessary to dig deep within oneself to discover the hidden grain of steel called will.

I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.

Barley, where it succeeds, yields a larger weight of feed per acre than any other small grain crop.

Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl.

The idea that people are nutritionally deprived because they don't eat grain has no scientific basis.

We need to have leaders that aren't afraid to go against the grain to call out failures in leadership.

To provide optimal levels of protective micronutrients, a diet must be vegetable-based, not grain-based.

I have not been able to get any grain yet. It is all in the country, and the people talk instead of working.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.

Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.

Why cover the same ground again? ... It goes against my grain to repeat a tale told once, and told so clearly.

I did what I did. I went against the grain. And I understand that I would be criticized. Those were all choices.

I like interacting with fans, and I like hearing what they say, but you have to take it all with a grain of salt.

If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.

Encroachment upon the powers and rights of States also goes against the grain of the Constitution and federal principles.

Grain that is used to feed animals that end up on our tables as turkeys and hams could have gone to feed starving people.

The illegal immigrants are like termites. They are eating the grain that should go to the poor; they are taking our jobs.

To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

I prefer a good review. A bad review that dismisses us... I take it with a grain of salt. I go, 'Okay, they didn't even try.'

Wherever possible, I try to see things from the other side of the dividing line and to read civilisation 'against the grain.'

I was always the weirdo who wanted to have an egalitarian service in synagogue and felt I was always going against the grain.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

Couscous is not a grain. I repeat, it is not a grain. Much like its brother spaghetti and its sister ravioli, couscous is pasta.

It's always great to play a character that goes against the grain. Finn defies what people think when they think of stormtroopers.

The people are the most important element in a nation; the spirits of the land and grain are the next; the sovereign is the least.

When you say you are a gamer and you are a celebrity or a former celebrity there's a grain of salt that everybody takes that with.

We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repairs with grain of different kinds.

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

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