Swallow In Public Quotes & Sayings

All the States and Governments by which men are or ever have been ruled, have been and are either Republics or Princedoms. — Niccolo Machiavelli

It was all a matter of timing," she says. "My train was late that day. The day I saw you drop your notebook. Had it been on schedule we never would have met. Maybe we were never meant to. It was a possibility, one of thousands, and not inevitable, the way some things are. — Erin Morgenstern

You play with everything you've got. I'm not a lover of cheap tricks. I've always loved playing with people, but there's no rule about it. You try everything you can. — John Carpenter

Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them. — Paul Prudhomme

Do you want me to beg you? Do you want me to say please? Then this song is the rest of my pride, girl. This song is me down on my knees. — Emery Lord

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories. — Paul Auster

I'm afraid to go to sleep. I'm afraid my dead friends will come to me, and that seeing them will kill me. — Stephen King

Of course, there is some truth in advertising. There's yeast in bread, but you can't make bread with yeast alone. Truth in advertising," announced Lord Peter sententiously, "is like leaven, which a woman hid in three measures of meal. It provides a suitable quantity of gas, with which to blow out a mass of crude misrepresentation into a form that the public can swallow. — Dorothy L. Sayers

For my next trick, I will win a staring contest with the moron in orange sunglasses. — Marissa Meyer

Book CoverTo have people who are well informed but not constrained by conscience is conceivably, the most dangerous outcome of education possible. Indeed it could be argued that ignorance is better than unguided intelligence, for the most dangerous people are those who have knowledge without a moral framework. — Ernest L. Boyer

I'm most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don't show it. — Ai Weiwei

I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth. — Ed Zern

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop. — George Bernard Shaw

Threat Level Fuchsia. Fuchsia! — Charlie Cochet

Magic is all about directing attention. If I didn't want you to look at my right hand then I don't look at it. — Keith Barry

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them. — Oscar Wilde