Sweigart Stables Quotes & Sayings

I had a really good time at MGM. And we had no quarrels much, except once in a while, I'd go up to the front office and say I thought I should be doing something big, like washing elephants ... All my life I wanted to have talent ... Finally I had to admit there was nothing there. — Marion Davies

The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past; and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary. — G.K. Chesterton

I'm dating myself by saying this, but I was the test audience for 'Space Invaders.' I remember when that was the first game that wasn't a pinball game. I spent a lot of money on 'Space Invaders,' in the form of quarters, of course. — John C. Reilly

They count that as your birthday
the day your mother gets up."
"Not the day you were born?"
Not the day you came out. They count the mother getting better as all part of the birth. — Barbara Kingsolver

Stupidity isn't punishable by death. If it was, there would be a hell of a population drop. — Laurell K. Hamilton

The creatures of the sea hold special mystery, and they are among the most exciting, graceful, and beautiful on Earth. Just consider the living riot of a coral reef, the beauty of an albatross, the awesome power of a giant turtle, the grace of a dolphin. Now multiply that by the millions of creatures in the sea. Wow! — Carl Safina

Kill me outright with looks, and rid my pain. — William Shakespeare

We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else. — Alice Miller

You must expect to make enemies."
"I never expect to make anything else," he said. — Susan Kay

Tell your readers to use it or lose it. If you don't use your muscles, they get weak. If you don't use your mind it begins to fail. — John Templeton

You may have heard this, that NASA discovered water on Mars When he heard about the water on Mars, President Bush said, 'Is it regular or unleaded?' — Craig Kilborn

Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad) — Bob Dylan

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals. — John Quincy Adams

I love anything by Joan Didion. Incidentally, she was one of the local moms when I was growing up in Point Dume. She always reminded me a little bit of my mother, so I feel a great affinity. I love the precision of Didion's writing. There's a construction and a craftsmanship to her sentences that's imbued with so much emotion. — Rob Lowe

I ignored the teasing tone of the man who stood beside me, the four-hundred-year-old Master vampire who ruled Chicago's Cadogan House and the parts of my heart that weren't devoted to great books and good pizza. — Chloe Neill