Against The Grain Quotes


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 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'.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't go against the grain because I'm a contrary person.

The pleasure of authenticity exists only against the grain of society.

The largest opportunities are found in ideas that go against the grain.

Nothing ventured nothing gained sometimes you've got to go against the grain.

Anarchists have always gone against the grain and that's been a place of hope.

You can't go against the grain of the universe and not expect to get splinters.

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

The heart prefers to move against the grain of circumstance; perversity is the souls very life.

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

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

I think there's something important in going against the grain and perhaps finding value in things that aren't necessarily institutionally recognized.

I always not only want push the envelope in my career but I also have an itch for going against the grain.

Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin' I should mind The People's Court snatch the mic from Doug Llewellyn

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.

Duty is what goes most against the grain because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to and are seldom much praised for it.

The most refined form of sexual attractiveness - as well as the most refined form of sexual pleasure - consists in going against the grain of one's sex.

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.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour and save it against a day of scarcity.

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

Individually every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story an experience and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of but I think this is very usual in life.