Grunt Quotes

“I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret language consisting of monosyllabic sounds and partial words—and they are apparently too thick to realize it exists. Maybe they really are from Mars. I'd been able to learn a few Martian phrases over time, and one of the useful ones was the grunt that meant "I acknowledge that I've heard what you said; please continue.”

“Hello there," Inigo hollered when he could wait no more.The man in black glanced up and grunted."I've been watching you."The man in black nodded."Slow going," Inigo said."Look, I don't mean to be rude," the man in black said finally, "but I'm rather busy just now, so try not to distract me.""I'm sorry," Inigo said.The man in black grunted again."I don't suppose you could speed things up," Inigo said."If you want to speed things up so much," the man in black said, clearly quite angry now, "you could lower a rope or a tree branch or find some other helpful thing to do.”

“What sort of person experimentally infests a child with maggots? A confident sort, certainly. A maverick. Someone comfortable with the unpretty facts of biology. Someone who is perhaps himself an unpretty fact of biology.”

“After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?”

“If we had directions, it wouldn't be life. It would be an assignment. Grunt work.”

“It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall but to lie there and grunt is.”

“Anyone can speak Troll. All you have to do is point and grunt.”

“He who writes well runs the civilization. Everyone else does the grunt work.”

“Look wise say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.”

“You can’t turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.”