Swendish Quotes & Sayings

I've joked that I would have either become schizophrenic or an actress, but as an actress you can do both. — Carla Gugino

I mistakenly believed that my life had finally reached the peak of Crazy Bullshit Mountain. Hindsight — Jeremy Robert Johnson

We're withering roses trying to survive all we need is a little love and care and we can be blooming again — Rose Withering

No good came from silence either. — George R R Martin

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred? — Richard Dawkins

The Swendish queen - whose name I couldn't pronounce to save my life. — Kiera Cass

Hunger finds no fault with the cookery. — Henry George Bohn

Believe in yourself, learn, and never stop wanting to build a better world. — Mary McLeod Bethune

It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility. — Hannah Arendt

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt. — Calvin Trillin

Then there were her childhood book: Anne of Green Gables, Heidi, What Katy did next, Pollyanna - stories about girls who were good. All Pollyanna had ever done wrong was ruin her parasol. Beth in Little Women was so perfect she was only fit for heaven. Why were girls in novels exemplary, almost saintly? Grace preferred adventure stories, histories and romances about what to do if you were damned and female, tales about women who were kind, likeable and believable, who escaped unpunished. No thin Quakers with lace caps. No beatific consumptives coughing delicately. No unloved, eternally jolly orphans. Grace craved books about girls like herself: good women, normal women in a world bigger and more powerful than themselves. — Wendy Jones

Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem. — David R. Brower

They played exquisite basketball in this series and in particular these last three games. They are the better team. There is no other way to say it. They played great basketball, and we couldn't respond to it. — Erik Spoelstra

Some errors you can only see once you've committed them. — Daniel Abraham