Swaths Def Quotes & Sayings

The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation. — George Santayana

It shouldn't take a life-changing event to spark change in your life. — Shaun Hick

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring. — Jane Fonda

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong. — John Lubbock

Love. The great destroyer of worlds. — Jocelyn Davies

You don't have to be a giant to think big. — Amit Pandey

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet. — Rumi

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown. — Jennifer Lopez

The things that I make are that which a person will make. They're not meant to mimic nature. They are nothing but the result of a hand of a person. — Andy Goldsworthy

Later than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof. In his dreams these had been carrier pigeons from someplace far across the ocean, landing and taking off again one by one, each bearing a message for him, but none of whom, light pulsing in the wings, he could ever quite get to in time. He understood it to be another deep nudge from forces unseen, almost surely connected with the letter that had come along with his latest mental-disability check, reminding him that unless he did something publicly crazy before a date now less than a week away, he would no longer qualify for benefits. He groaned out of bed. Somewhere down the hill hammers and saws were busy and country music was playing out of somebody's truck radio. Zoyd was out of smokes. — Thomas Pynchon

A very underestimated part of the world, The Entrance is. — Melina Marchetta

That's lifted the crowd up into the air. — Barry Davies

Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit. — J. Paul Getty

Furi had just stepped out of the shower and wrapped a towel around himself when he heard pounding on his door.

Furi yanked it open. "Geez Doug. Wake up Ms. Jones why don'tcha? — A.E. Via