If you always look at the sky, you miss the good things on the ground; if you always look at the ground, you miss the good things in the sky!
I think the most important technique is to ground everything, to make everything - to make fantasy world grounded and relatable, just great characters.
Rapping and singing are not two polar opposites. There's so much middle ground. And I think there's a lot of people who find that middle ground.
When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.
Computers are heaven-sent when they work and hell-spawn when they don't. There's just not much middle ground when it comes to technology.
I don't think a Palestinian state is going to be created at a conference table; it will be created on the ground in the West Bank, and some day, a peace conference will ratify that which has been built on the ground.
I think all of us who have been in Afghanistan on the ground multiple times know that what we're doing there on the ground is just not sustainable.
Even a tower a hundred yards tall has still its foundations on the ground.
The white man lives in the castle; when he dies, he lies in the ground.
A ripe pear is more likely to fall in the shit than onto the clean ground.
He who dies for the truth finds holy ground everywhere for his grave.
Though a tree grow ever so high, the falling leaves return to the ground.
The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled around him, but he could feel how fast he was falling, and he knew what was waiting for him down there. Even in dreams, you could not fall forever. He wo...
No matter how high a bird can fly, it still has to look for food on the ground.
Man is like pepper -- you only know him when you've ground him.
...skepticism can never provide firm ground under a man's feet. And perhaps, after all, we need firm ground.
But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.
A fighter cannot contemplate fear, let alone show it. Fear weakens you, gets you hurt.
Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we need to work on mastering the art of complaint.
My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home.
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.
