Graham Swift Quotes

I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

Graham Swift

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'

Jim Woodring

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I used language because I wanted to offer content that people - not necessarily art people - could understand.

Jenny Holzer

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I don't think that crazy should have a negative connotation - it just means that you're fun. I think that crazy is just a term that boring people use to describe fun people.

Jenny Mollen

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I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

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People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.

Matt Reeves

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New Hampshire is different than Massachusetts. We have - well, we're the Live Free or Die state. We are independent.

Jeanne Shaheen

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Perspective has allowed me to rekindle my love of music.

Michael Buble

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I know how to separate my own laundry.

Amy Ryan

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The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

Tony Visconti

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There's this huge number of desperate people.

Lloyd Alexander

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Particularly over the last few decades, technological innovation has offered opportunities to bring people and nations together - but it has also created significant new challenges to law enforcement.

Loretta Lynch

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I'm somebody who tries to remain positive and looks forward to setting goals and reaching them. But that's easier said than done.

CM Punk

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