Tammen Swayze Quotes & Sayings

For when one is about to embark on some enterprise, it is precisely the books whose contents have nothing at all in common with the enterprise that are the most useful. — Franz Kafka

I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music. — Charles Hazlewood

Everyone's quick to blame the alien. — Aeschylus

That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the past few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me: djinn, magicians, humans ... it made no difference.I'd been summoned, manhandled, shot at, captured, constricted, bossed about and generally taken for granted. And now, to cap it all, this bloke is joining in too, when all I'd been doing was quietly trying to kill him. — Jonathan Stroud

The fear of failure kills creativity and intelligence. The only thing it produces is conformity. — Anup Kochhar

One thing that has gone wrong in America is the general acceptance of bad ham — Jim Harrison

I will not change just to court popularity. — Margaret Thatcher

Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I start every day reviewing priorities, prepping for meetings, and getting updated on key projects. — Logan Green

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them. — William Howard Taft

I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it. — Laura San Giacomo

I hurt him, Larel ... — Elise Kova

Four of the roses were on fire.
They stood up straight and pure on the stalk, gripping the dark like prophets
and howling colossal intimacies
from the back of their fused throats.
- XXVII. MITWELT — Anne Carson