Swanstrom Disc Quotes & Sayings

A whole population of strangers inhabited and shaped that little body, lived in that mind and controlled its wishes, dictated its thoughts ... The name was an abstraction, a title arbitrarily given, like "France" or "England," to a collection, never long the same, of many individuals who were born, lived, and died within him, as the inhabitants of a country appear and disappear, but keep alive in their passage the identity of the nation to which they belong. — Aldous Huxley

That would certainly be a better name for this planet than Earth, since it would give people who just got here a clearer idea of what they were in for: Triage. Welcome to Triage. — Kurt Vonnegut

I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house. — Nina Conti

There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I saw his eyes. They were like silver. Grey maybe? Steel blue? No, they were silver. Even from this distance I could see right through them. — Aquene Emil

L'chaim. It means 'to life. — Meg Cabot

I always considered myself very successful even before the success of Secrets and Lies. — Brenda Blethyn

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable. — Heinrich Heine

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way. — Julia Child

In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead. — Sabine Baring-Gould

We burst through the gardens, half leaping over wheelbarrows in the first, avoiding a crop of herbs in the second, and getting barked at by an evil terrier in the third. — Anonymous

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums. — Christina Aguilera

We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities. — Joshua Chamberlain