Aswirl Quotes

#1. Leaves like rusty tin
for the desolate mind that has seen the end-
the barest glimmerings.
Leaves aswirl with gulls
made wild by winter.

Giorgos Seferis

#2. When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does.

L.M. Montgomery

#3. Speak to me of the dark gifts. I use them. I'm gentleman death in silk and lace, come to put out the candle.

Anne Rice

#4. Some of their players are internationals; some play for their national team.

Steve McClaren

#5. They [British people] told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.

Michael Gove

#6. The stationary condition is the beginning of the end

Henri Frederic Amiel

#7. How devastating it is to be thought of as arrogant. Surely, we have known each other long enough and well enough, for her to understand that my silence only reflects my sense of trust and satisfaction.

Barbara Hodgson

#8. My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.

John Conyers

#9. If they didn't take you seriously, they would never see you coming.

Diana Peterfreund

#10. The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience.

Holmes Rolston III

#11. I'm just a photographer, not a movie star.

Ryan McGinley

#12. About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".

Herbert Butterfield