Swaylia Quotes & Sayings

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself. — Joe Sacco

There has been considerable comment over the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a soldier. I am afraid this does not seem as remarkable to me as it quite evidently appears to others. I know a great deal of the horrors and tragedies of war ... The cost of war in human lives is constantly spread before me, written neatly in many ledgers whose columns are gravestones. I am deeply moved to find some means or method of avoiding another calamity of war. — George C. Marshall

I look for places like me: big, hollow, forgotten by most everyone. — Jodi Picoult

He took an enormous mouthful of grains, speaking around it. "You feen weddie?"
Gillian raised an eyebrow. "I don't speak moronese. — Lara Morgan

My aunt says you should only pray to Jesus."
Blind Bill grunted and spat. "You think the white folks' god is gonna help you? You think he's on our side?"
"I don't think anybody's god is on our side. — Libba Bray

Art should grasp the mind the way the vagina grasps the penis-Marcel Duchamp — Alice Goldfarb Marquis

Want to know where you truly stand with someone? Follow their time and see how much you are already there — Carl Henegan

Lives are rivers. We imagine we can direct their paths, though in the end there's but one destination, and we end up being true to ourselves only because we have no choice. — Richard Russo

Yes," continued Lord Henry, "that is one of the great secrets of life--to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul. You — Oscar Wilde