Swills Pearl Quotes & Sayings

To keep the wrong leader in the wrong place prevents the right leader from being in the right place. — Aubrey Malphurs

My mother has battled breast cancer three times. — Cynthia Nixon

Ministry in no way is a privilege ... it is the core of the Christian life. No Christian is a Christian without being a minister. — Henri Nouwen

I keep things real simple because I know where I came from and I don't ever want to go back to that way of living. — Edgerrin James

The cold breeze and the cold of Richard's Camel were mixing like joy and remorse. — Jonathan Franzen

His landlady came to the door, loosely wrapped in dressing gown and shawl; her husband followed ejaculating. — Mary Shelley

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak. — Robin Trower

Quit allowing negativity to block the positive gifts which are meant for you along with the hard lessons and tribulations. — Bryant McGill

Real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing. — Emma Donoghue

I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her. — Candy Crowley

There are only three American names that are known in every corner of the globe: Singer sewing machines, Coca Cola and Elizabeth Arden. — Elizabeth Arden

Dain could not decide what to do with Lady Wallingdon's invitation.
A part of his mind recommended he burn it.
Another part suggested he urinate on it.
Another advised him to shove it down Her Ladyship's throat. — Loretta Chase

In the name of the constitution of Texas, which has been trampled upon, I refuse to take this oath. I love Texas too well to bring civil strife and bloodshed upon her. — Sam Houston

We are at war. War is not on battlefield. It is in boardrooms of companies that control your United States of America. — Kenneth Eade

Reading a poem in translation," wrote Bialek, "is like kissing a woman through a veil"; and reading Greek poems, with a mixture of katharevousa and the demotic, is like kissing two women. Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the free adaptation that sacrifices detail to meaning, the strict crib that sacrifices meaning to exactitude. The poet moves from life to language, the translator moves from language to life; both like the immigrant, try to identify the invisible, what's between the lines, the mysterious implications. — Anne Michaels