Sways Universe Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days. — Helmut Jahn

I'm all for anybody having a party who wants that. The funny thing about me and birthdays or any kind of celebration where it brings attention to you in that way is that it's never been anything that I've thoroughly enjoyed - even as a little kid. — Kim Basinger

Every job I've ever gotten has been an accident. All the jobs I actually go after, I don't get. — Moon Unit Zappa

Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze. I got a big fat mama trying to break me. — Ray Davies

Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will. — Dar Williams

She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when". — P.G. Wodehouse

For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice. — Cornel West

Pride divides the men, humility joins them. — Socrates

Is it the lack of opportunity that creates the lack of ambition, or has that always existed? Most of them must have parents who work, or who studied, and who of course want the same thing for their kids. But how do you find that in a town where the major achievement was always seen as escaping it? Eventually — Matt Dunn

Elephants can sense danger. They're able to detect an approaching tsunami or earthquake before it hits. Unfortunately, Jack did not have this talent. The day his life was turned completely upside down, he was caught unaware. — Jennifer Richard Jacobson

He'd never had much to do with the police in the Nottinghamshire village where he lived. They existed at a distance, as it were, and Joshua's life hadn't led him closer than that. By accident his actions had been law-abiding. — Alan Sillitoe

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. — Henry James