Quotes About Swamplandia

#1. John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

Robert Burns

#2. Guardini recognized that the liturgy is the true, living environment for the Bible and that the Bible can be properly understood only in this living context within which it first emerged.

Romano Guardini

#3. Well, you look weird. New pajamas? Did somebody exhume you last night?
Kiwi, Swamplandia!

Karen Russell

#4. This season has been full of rewards. The dinners and banquets just keep on coming. It's great. We want to carry it on as long as we can.

Andrew Jackson

#5. Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve

Alasdair MacIntyre

#6. At ten, I couldn't articulate much but I got the message: to be a true historian, you had to mourn amply and well. (spoken by narrator Ava Bigtree in Swamplandia!)

Karen Russell

#7. People will always choose more money over more sex.

Douglas Coupland

#8. I see the world from a very specific perspective. It is how I grew up. It is what I am proud of, and I vocalize it. And for those who have not experienced my experience, it is odd, and it's not mainstream.

Lee Daniels

#9. Who is going to pay a day's wage to slide down a damn tongue?
The Chief, Swamplandia

Karen Russell

#10. I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

Sharon Olds