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Kenneth C. Griffin Quotes

For choice, I prefer not to be a public figure. I don't have Tom Cruise's good looks. I don't have a need to be on the front page of fill-in-the-blank.

Kenneth C. Griffin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: October 15, 1968

Topics

Good Choice Looks Page Cruise Need

When I write a book, characters come to life for me somewhere at the back of my head. I strive to make them flesh and blood in an abstract way, in words.

Jhumpa Lahiri

Life Words Me Book Back Way

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Meister Eckhart

Life Thankful Prayer Thank You You

I'm forever being told that I'm an odd-looking actress, so it's great playing parts where there's no vanity. You just look as rough as you possibly can!

Anna Maxwell Martin

Great You Look Vanity Playing Where

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before, the growing use of professional jargon.

Stephen Jay Gould

Writing Professional Growing Worse

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Socrates

Good Reputation You Desire Way Gain

There's just no doubt in my mind - under any set of rules - water boarding is torture.

Tom Ridge

Water Mind Doubt Rules Torture Just

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

Louise Brooks

Beautiful Smart People Think Dumb

My dad's a pastor; I grew up in the church, and it's really easy to just have a healthy respect for what some people might be sensitive to.

Brett Young

Respect People Church Easy Healthy

I never give up on my players, and I'll never give up on people.

Art Modell

Never Give Up People Never Up Give

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

Alma Gluck

Life Art Sacrifice Thinking Giving

I love sci-fi, especially when it thrives on a thought-provoking story, rather than explosions.

William Mapother

Love Story Rather Sci-Fi Than

There are rumors, rumors, rumors. I'm always the last one to know about these things, literally.

Shawn Ashmore

Know Rumors Always Things Last