The world around me then was kind of grim. I had to learn to pretend in order to - I don`t know - block the grimness. The whole world seemed sort of closed to me... [I felt] on the outside of everything, and all I could do was to dream up any kind of pret...
Marilyn Monroe
It`s very interesting that most of the roles I`ve gotten are grim, when I`m actually a very well-adjusted man and had a happy upbringing. I guess there are some dark shadows somewhere in there, but I`m a big kid.
Tony Todd
[On his childhood] "All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see little except violence and fear...In those early years I somehow came to understand I would have to draw from wi...
Burgess Meredith
Hollywood is fear-filled. You only need to be there when the sun is not shining to notice the grim determination and the need to be on every billboard. Every meeting has some agenda. People smile in case you might be of use 10 years down the line. If you ...
Richard E. Grant
We are in a very grim situation, and everybody knows how serious it is. We are not anywhere near a point where everyone can be satisfied on either side.
Richard Holbrooke
The situation is quite grim. With the money we have already, and much of it obtained from our own internal emergency reserves, we can keep the helicopters running for one week.
Michael Jones
The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
Anita Loos
The judicial authorities are imposing a grim ordeal on three journalists under pressure from the governor of an unstable state. The Nigerian press is still in the grip of harsh legislation, a brutal police force and authoritarian governors. On this New Ye...
Ann Darrin
She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.
Henry Cabot Lodge
My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.
Ambrosia Anderson
It`s, it`s really been grim. I mean they realize that this is probably the biggest political crisis they`ve faced in the President`s tenure. I think what they`re trying to create now after two weeks is a level of engagement and urgency that the President ...
David Gregory
It was like in Samoa when they`d put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.
Dick Wolf
I feel sometimes that in children`s books there are more and more grim problems, but I don`t know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them.
Beverly Cleary
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
Alfonzo Surrett
And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You`ll note there`s no science in it. It`s a kind of grim fantasy.
Amit Singh