Swales Discourse Community Quotes & Sayings

Earning my college degree. It was a promise I made to my parents. I understand that football is only a certain time in my life, and my degree will help me sustain my life well past football. I was so proud of that, and the amount of work I put into it. — Marcus Mariota

If you wanna be somebody be yourself dont try to be anybody your not — Yasunari Kawabata

few people in the streets he's passing, and a pedestrian or two on the walkways of the overpasses - they give lie to the impression that he has somehow wandered into a Lovecrafty tale of doomed cities, ancient evils, and monsters with unpronounceable names. Here, ganged around a bus stop with a sign reading KENMORE SQUARE CITY CENTER, he sees waitresses, nurses, city employees, their faces naked and puffed with sleep. — Stephen King

A 10,000 mile walk, begins with a single step and continues one step at a time. — Rickson Gracie

It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might have wavered in their allegiance under this oppression of a great personality ... But this was a kind of modern meanness to which Syme could not sink even in his extreme morbidity. Like any man, he was coward enough to fear great force; but he was not coward enough to admire it. — G.K. Chesterton

There is no medicine that can ignite the bond of love. Friendship is compulsory, love comes around when friendship ripes, and sex is a matter of choice. — Michael Bassey Johnson

I love my friends. I love my love-life. I love my hobbies. I love eating. — Rebecca De Mornay

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a raindance. — Texas Bix Bender

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director. — Eli Roth

The activity for the day is Avoiding Satanic Influences — Jessica Verdi

Chefs don't use white pepper just to avoid spoiling the whiteness of pommes puree or bechamel. It has a more peppery aroma, with sharpness and sweetness, too. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Things don't happen to us. They happen for us. — Michael Hyatt

You could call her perilous because she was so strong in herself. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I actually think that short stories transfer to film much better than novels do. — Robin Hobb