Swirlers Wake Quotes & Sayings

I was thinking that I might fly today. Just to disprove all the things you say ... please be careful with me, I'm sensitive, and I'd like to stay that way. — Jewel

More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness. — Charlie Chaplin

the former; "our arrangement thus made, you have nothing to fear from me." He sat down in a chair on the hearth, over against Mr. Lorry. When they were alone, Mr. Lorry asked him what he had done? "Not much. If it should go ill with the prisoner, I have ensured access to him, once." Mr. Lorry's countenance fell. "It is all I could do," said Carton. "To propose too much, would be to put this man's head under the axe, and, as he himself said, nothing worse could happen to him if he were denounced. It was obviously the weakness of the position. There is no help for it. — Charles Dickens

I have remained someone who believes that the only things indispensable to human life are air, food, drink and excretion, and the search for truth. The rest is optional. — Jonathan Littell

He apologized profusely. "I knew that frog position was too freaky. I'm sorry."
"It's not that, Johnson. Did you notice that like every third thrust I was like a virgin? That was my asshole." Dove put a hand on his shoulder. — Debra Anastasia

Abruptly, Templeton cut short his thoughts. There was a brief pause, almost as if he was uncertain whether he should continue.
'Uh ... but ... no,' he said slowly, 'he's the most ...' He stopped, then started again. 'In my view,' he declared, 'he is the most important human being who ever existed.'
That's when Templeton uttered the words I neer expected to hear from him. ' And if I may put it this way,' he said in a voice that began to crack, 'I ... miss ... him!'
With that tears flooded his eyes. He turned his head and looked downward, raising his left hand to shield his face from me. His shoulders bobbed as he wept."

-Former Minister and now Agnostic Charles Templeton speaking of Jesus — Lee Strobel

Of course, I love tools. I also love arranging them, to the point where I came up with a name for my organizing metric: first-order retrievability. — Adam Savage

In my role of agent for Miss Hathaway, I would like to say that she does not answer questions relating to this subject. — Steve Carell

I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque. — Eddie Vedder

Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so. — Etgar Keret

My dad moved to London in his early 20s and didn't really go back. So the irony is I've spent lots and lots of time in Ireland, but not with my dad. I've shot films in Belfast, where he's from. And I've shot in Dun Laoghaire. Which is great. And I've shot in Dublin. — Imogen Poots

Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives. — R. K. Milholland

... worry is an emotional state that I abhor. It tends to be self-absorbed and short-sighted, and holds no purpose other than to waste energy and distract the mind from what actually matters. — Penny Reid

The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands. — Carolyn Forche