Tara Swart Quotes & Sayings

It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same time addressed in such a way as to oblige one to do the very thing - whatever it be! — Jane Austen

Love, the life-giving garden of this world. — Rumi

Carl Rinsch has a good balance between the visual and the drama and action, so I thought if he's going to direct, we can make a new, epic film. My fear was gone when I met him. — Hiroyuki Sanada

You don't know yourself. — Deyth Banger

We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite. We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education. — Richard Wright

Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. — Theophile Gautier

Where exactly do you put your hands on somebody who hurts everywhere? — Charles D'Ambrosio

Europe has been in the grip of a very serious economic crisis for few years, so there have been major cuts to anti-terrorist funding, to intelligence funding. So we do not have the manpower to carry on this kind of monitoring. — Loretta Napoleoni

Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, and you'll probably make it through the next one. — Ruth Gordon

Trees can grow from tiny cracks in stony cliffs, Kate. This may be a very small crack indeed - but it's a beginning. — Mary Jo Putney

The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life. — Adam Khoo

The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking. — Roy Fuller