Graham Swift Quotes

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur.

Graham Swift

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 4, 1949

Topics

ArtSimpleWordsAmazingLanguage

I'm very much a glass-is-half-full guy.

Jimmi Simpson

GuyMuchVery

I behave differently in different situations, and I'm slightly unstable and insecure, which I think are natural conditions of what I do. And I have a weird ear. Whatever I hear, I emulate. When I was a kid I did impressions: Forrest Gump, Rain Man, really big caricatures.

Max Minghella

RainManThinkWeirdKidWhatever

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise.

John Ralston Saul

ChildBornParadiseYearsFortunate

Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?

Mike Huckabee

BelieveDevilBrothersJesusMormons

I don't care what sport you're talking about. What you see with great franchises is structure - a structure that doesn't just take you from year to year, but day to day.

Jason Kidd

GreatDayCareTalkingYearYou

I've been known to create clothes that are very formfitting and feminine.

Jason Wu

ClothesCreateBeenKnownFeminine

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Denzel Washington

LazinessProcrastinationMoreBeen

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Doris Lessing

ChangeAgeGreatPeopleYouBody

My grandfather was a great chef.

Douglas Booth

GreatChefGrandfather

I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts.

Claire Tomalin

GoodSocietyConcertBelongConcerts

If you want to get a good seat at a Texas A&M game or a University of Texas game, it depends on how much money you give the school.

Bob McNair

GoodMoneySchoolGameTexasYou

When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.

Philipp Meyer

PeopleThinkIgnoreCreationBlood

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