Graham Swift Quotes

The pen is very quick for getting stuff from your brain to the page. I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean, nice pen, ink straight on to the page.

Graham Swift

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BrainEnjoyPenI CanPageNice

I liked art history. Also liked the gender ratio, especially compared to applied math and physics.

Jesse Andrews

HistoryArtGenderPhysicsMath

I'm the kind of person that just goes in and does my job.

Andie MacDowell

JobPersonKindJustGoesDoes

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

John Jay Chapman

HabitSunPeopleColdWorryYou

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.

Stockwell Day

JusticeGovernmentWiseBraveWorld

I think if you study people in the street today, you do sometimes feel that they have taken their behavior and their language from things that they have seen rather than read - from soap operas and movies and so on.

Ronald Frame

TodayPeopleThinkLanguageBehavior

When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades and a beret, and the goal was hanging out.

Roy Harper

BeardGoalShadesOutHanging

If you want to enter hell, don't complain of the dark; you can't blame the world for being unfair if you start on the path of the rebel.

Liu Xiaobo

PathBlameWorldStartHellYou

I've always aspired to Cary Grant's level of coolness and failed miserably.

Jason Priestley

AlwaysLevelGrantFailedCoolness

I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer.

Dolly Parton

CarKindOutSingerSellRecords

We never know who we are going to be until we are tested, but perhaps we can test ourselves without going to the extremes of war. Perhaps we can be kinder now, live with less now, reach out to others now - and build an inner reserve of a strong identity that will hold us up even when everything else falls away.

Deborah Ellis

LiveWarIdentityStrongReachKnow

The act of riding a bicycle isn't causing brain trauma. Yeah, you could fall, but that's if something goes wrong. Everything could go right in football, and it's still dangerous.

Chris Borland

FootballBrainBicycleYouFallGo

Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.

Christopher Shays

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