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Swing Quotes (page 4)

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die. George R. R. Martin
We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. For instance, how much more remarkable it is for us all to be stuck-half of us upside down-by a mysterious attraction, to a spinning ball that has been swinging in space for billions of years, than to be carried on the back of an elephant supported on a tortoise swimming in a... Richard P. Feynman
Benjamin Franklin quote: "It's better to swim in the sea below. Than to swing in the air..."
It's better to swim in the sea below. Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol. Benjamin Franklin
Herman Melville quote: "I wonder, Flask, whether the world is anchored anywhere; if..."
I wonder, Flask, whether the world is anchored anywhere; if she is, she swings with an uncommon long cable, though. Herman Melville
...Ned always said that the man who passes the sentence should swing the blade, though he never took any joy in the duty. But I would, oh, yes. George R. R. Martin
. . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words. Ken Kesey
America was in full swing now, all the papers said so, and people were rushing forward, leaving behind the horrors of war. She understood the reasons, but they were rushing, like Lon, toward long hours and profits, neglecting the things that brought beauty to the world. Nicholas Sparks
Everybody knows the thing about an infinite number of monkeys," Fenig said. "An infinite number of monkeys is put to work at an infinite number of typewriters and eventually one of them reproduces a great work of literature. In what language I don't know. But what about an infinite number of writers in an infinite number of cages? Would they make on monkey sound? One genuine chimp noise? Would they eventually swing by their toes from an infinite number of monkey bars? Would they shit monkey... Don DeLillo
Roberto Bolano quote: "Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign..."
Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago. Roberto Bolano
"He sang the song of the sword, keening as he fed his blade, and Rollo, standing thigh-deep in the creek, ax swinging in murderous blows, blocked the enemy's escape. The Frisians, transported from confidence to bowel-loosening fear, began to drop their weapons. Bernard Cornwell
the lost women I need to know their names those women I would have walked with, jauntily the way men go in groups swinging their arms, and the ones those sweating women whom I would have joined After a hard game to chew the fat what would we have called each other laughing joking into our beer? where are my gangs, my teams, my mislaid sisters? all the women who could have known me, where in the world are their names? Lucille Clifton
The most important tactic in an argument next to being right is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without an embarrassing loss of face. Stephen Jay Gould
H. G. Wells quote: "Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It..."
Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation. H. G. Wells
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think of what it might be. In running the mind flees with the body, the mysterious efflorescence of language seems to pulse in the brain, in rhythm with our feet and the swinging of our arms. Joyce Carol Oates
Shunryu Suzuki quote: "What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we..."
What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. Shunryu Suzuki

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