Laura Swenson Quotes & Sayings

I done the best I could with what I had -- Joe Louis — Joe Louis

I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. — John Maynard Keynes

Comparing kills fulfillment. — Todd Stocker

It is a very great mistake, and a very common one, even for well-read persons, to adopt the idea that the progress of the human race in the science of government, in the arts of civilization and refinement, and in the establishment of morality and religion, has been constantly and steadily towards improvement and perfection. — Samuel Freeman Miller

When actors get pigeonholed, that's their own doing to a large degree. Because if you do something that people like, obviously they're going to ask you to do it again. It's up to you to say no. If you're that insecure about working, you'll probably do what you're known to do. — John Larroquette

You can't sit there and worry about everything. — Michael Bloomberg

The sound would disappear, but the hurt would linger, like the smell of piss long after it has evaporated. — Yann Martel

The tentacles of today reach out like an octopus to swallow yesterday. — Gladys Taber

The self you have betrayed is your mind; self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think. The ego you seek, that essential "you" which you cannot express or define, is not your emotions or inarticulate dreams, but your intellect, that judge of your supreme tribunal whom you've impeached in order to drift at the mercy of any stray shyster you describe as your "feeling." — John Galt

Have a drink, Coughffles."
"Stop it with the names!" I laughed and coughed. — Shaye Evans

Treat every moment as if it is your last, because in life everything must come to an end, we don't know when or how so enjoy every moment for what it is and have no regrets. — Mark Burns

Each time we had a visiting writer, I asked what she thought of women and humor. By the end of the year, I had perfected my question and asked Adrienne Rich why there was so little written about women and humor. She looked at me right in the eye and said, 'You write it.' I took that as an order. — Kate Clinton

The real rewards you can't put on a shelf. — Angela Cervantes