Svanik Quotes & Sayings

Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age. — Jenny McCarthy

My personal life is awesome, but there's always more to strive for in my career. — Jaime Winstone

The devil takes us to the top of an exceeding high mountain and makes us dizzy; but God lets us look at the mountain. — G.K. Chesterton

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air ... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability. — George Bernard Shaw

According to physical measurements, DNA chains are, on the average, 10,000 units long. — Arthur Kornberg

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not. — Isaiah Berlin

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside. — Anne Tyler

If you have no more happiness to give: Give me your pain. — Lou Andreas-Salome

This must not be planet earth," Cone told his partner. "This must be hell." But it wasn't. It was just Odessa. — H. G. Bissinger

Hopefully America will forgive me. — Elana Meyers

When a grizzled yeoman worker appeared one morning to complain that as a state legislator many years earlier, in hard times, young Lincoln had inexcusably voted to raise his government salary from two to all of four dollars a day," Lincoln listened to the reproach calmly. "Now, Abe, I want to know what in the world made you do it?" demanded the old Democrat. With deadpan seriousness, Lincoln explained: "I reckon the only reason was that we wanted the money. — Harold Holzer

Homosexuality is not a political choice; it is dictated by the imperatives of desire. — Rictor Norton