Graham Swift Quotes

In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

Graham Swift

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkHopeMemoriesTimeTrustLogic

I lead a very conventional life. I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. This was more true when I was living in California, when I didn't lead a writer's life at all.

Joan Didion

LifePeopleThinkLivingTrueMore

The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.

Joel Salatin

GreatPigBaconPorkUsJust

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Anatole France

IgnoranceHappyPricePersonNever

Becoming a parent is always going to be a default setting. I truly believe there will always be more people who want to have children than who don't.

Meghan Daum

ChildrenPeopleBelieveParentWant

When we play live, it's always been a do or die effort. And everything we've ever done has always had that approach.

Angus Young

LiveEffortDiePlayDoneAlways

To be better than 31 other teams, you better be a really good team. It's just not about one person.

Jeffrey Lurie

GoodTeamBetterYouPersonJust

Some nights I lie awake at night thinking, 'What's going to stop someone from smashing a chair through my window and coming in the house at two in the morning?' It is very unnerving. It's a realistic scare, which is the worst kind of scare that you could have.

Rod Lurie

MorningLieWindowNightThinking

The belief that government must be the ultimate nanny to our children is one of the fundamental philosophical disagreements between the Right and Left.

Mike Gallagher

ChildrenGovernmentBeliefRightOur

I dyed my hair this crazy red to bid for attention. It has become a trademark, and I've got to keep it this way.

Lucille Ball

RedCrazyHairAttentionWayBecome

We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.

Louie Anderson

MeThanksWelfareKidsWere

In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet.

Julia Jones

PainTrainingThinkBetterEmotional

I am running to be the 50th mayor of Baltimore in order to usher our city into an era where the government is accountable to its people and is aggressively innovative in how it identifies and solves its problems.

DeRay Mckesson

GovernmentI AmPeopleCityProblems

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