Svenkeren Quotes & Sayings

Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct. — William Shakespeare

Without pleasure man would live like a fool and soon die. — Pierre Beaumarchais

I still come from a very working-class family. My mother's still a cleaner. And my brother is the gas man. And my other brother runs a cab. I have become a stratified, different, exotic beast, even more so than I was when I was a young gay man. I just sort of built on that. Now that I've made several films, I don't even know how to placate them with money like so many people do with their families. — Duncan Roy

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time. — Elizabeth Taylor

Pleased to meet you, Grandma,' I said. — Jeannette Walls

Bach is the supreme genius of music ... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it — Pablo Casals

That's a nice quote," Langston said. "Underline it and fold down the page for me, will you?" I did as instructed. — Rachel Cohn

Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox ... It's both things, like quantum physics: It's a particle and a wave at the same time. It all exists all together. — Joan Jett

Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way. — Deyth Banger

Ain't got so much moral ground to stand on. — A.C. Gaughen

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace. — Rumi

You get married to have an ally against your family, and now I'm heading into the trenches alone. — Jonathan Tropper

Song girls have an unspoken pact: to make life as easy as possible for Daddy. — Jenny Han

In the Soviet Union every worker is a government worker, and they have a saying: As long as the bosses pretend to pay us, we will pretend to work. — Tom Clancy