Swigged Crossword Quotes & Sayings

I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside. — Jane Hirshfield

My name is Patricia Lauren Bordeaux, and I, like my creator before me, am a very lonely vampire. — S.C. Parris

At the negotiations in Irvine, it became clear to me that there was no side I could stand on. The English despise me and my countrymen don't trust me. Wallace and the others are rebelling in the name of Balliol. I cannot fight with them. It would be as much a betrayal of my oath as when I was fighting for England. I know what I must do. What I should have done months ago.'
Robert felt embarrassed, about to say the words. Inside, his father's voice berated him, but he silenced it. 'I want you to weave my destiny,' he finished. 'As you did for my grandfather.'
When she spoke, her voice was low. 'And what is your destiny?'
He met her eyes now, all hesitation and embarrassment gone. 'To be King of Scotland.'
A smile appeared at the corners of her mouth. It wasn't a soft smile. It was hard and dangerous. 'I will need something of yours,' she said, rising. — Robyn Young

On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.' — Rita Rudner

Yes, I feel I've got something to say. If people want to listen, that's great, and if they don't, that's their choice. — Tony Blair

If wishes were horses, all beggars would ride. — Kristin Hannah

In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger. — Adrienne Rich

I'll probably never win an Oscar, but I'll sure have a lot of fun! I really believe that movies are the great escape. — Steven Spielberg

We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong. — James Frey

The film [Django] really has a lot of ups and downs, and taps into a lot of different emotions. To me, the trick was balancing all those emotions, so that I could get you where I wanted you to be by the very end. I wanted the audience cheering in triumph at the end. — Quentin Tarantino

In its own way, the most harmful dragon we chase is the one that makes us think we can change things that are simply not ours to change. — Ryan Holiday

Let's concentrate on our discussion of things that make us happy, Humble, says the psychologist. — Ned Vizzini