Graham Swift Quotes

London is like no other city I know in its ability to become beautiful. You can suddenly turn a corner and there are odd moments - of light, of weather.

Graham Swift

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BeautifulLightCityWeatherMoments

Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.

John Battelle

UpIndustryWhereAnotherRises

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result.

Robert Smith

TechnologyAgePeopleEndGeneration

My mom had beautiful clothes. My mom is elegant; my mom is glamorous. But my mom is also really real, and I grew up with a mother who had babies crawling on her head and spitting up on her when she was wearing gorgeous, expensive things, and it was never an issue.

Tracee Ellis Ross

MotherBeautifulMomClothesNever

I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.

Roger Ailes

GodWaterReligionBelieveTrees

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Matsuo Basho

NatureFlowersTempleSoundBell

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

Mohsin Hamid

ArtWritingWorldMarathonOver

I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.

Joy Harjo

BeautyRainAmazingDesertNeedSee

At the beginning of my career, I can honestly say there were a few things I was doing wrong, and I was wondering why I was going a little bit off track.

Joseph Parker

BeginningDoingCareerI CanWrong

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history.

Denis O'Hare

CharacterHistoryEvilWayDescribe

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

Bob Riley

FuturePoliticsThinkingStandYou

I'm tired of this party stuff, where we're going to do what's right for this party, or we're going to do what's right for that party. Let's just get together and do what's right for the country. I think that's what all of us want.

Bobby Knight

TogetherTiredThinkGet TogetherUs

Everybody, every tradesman that worked for Shafin or built my house got fully paid, well paid. Everybody got paid. I would like that to be said if I could because I haven't said it before, and it's important. People kind of think we left all these plumbers or electricians without getting paid.

Shane Filan

PeopleThinkHouseSaidImportant

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Graham Swift