Top 100 Quotes About Swift
#2. Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.
Taylor Swift
#3. I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.
Jonathan Swift
#4. I definitely know that there's somebody looking out for me, because I could never do this alone.
Taylor Swift
#5. Once a relationship is done, it's done. You can't do that back and forth thing.
Taylor Swift
#6. Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.
Patrick Swift
#7. Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast ... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.
Patrick Kavanagh
#8. I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
Taylor Swift
#9. Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.
Taylor Swift
#10. Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep."
Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"
Khalil Gibran
#11. Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow.
Graham Swift
#12. I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
Taylor Swift
#13. What we call the Irish Brogue is no sooner discovered, than it makes the deliverer, in the last degree, ridiculous and despised; and, from such a mouth, an Englishman expects nothing but bulls, blunders, and follies.
Jonathan Swift
#14. One principal object of good-breeding is to suit our behaviour to the three several degrees of men, our superiors, our equals, and those below us.
Jonathan Swift
#15. Words are everything to me. Words can build you up and feel so good. On the flip side, words can absolutely demolish you.
Taylor Swift
#16. The swifter hand doth the swift words outrun: Before the tongue hath spoke the hand hath done.
Martial
#17. Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.
Jonathan Swift
#18. I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.
Jonathan Swift
#19. I listen to so many different kinds of music - I mean, I listen to everything. I listen to everything from Bon Jovi to Taylor Swift. It just goes everywhere.
Mark Indelicato
#20. Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Jonathan Swift
#21. I will always believe in love and I don't care what happens to me or how many times I get my heart broken, or how many breakup songs I write, I'm always going to believe that someday I am going to meet somebody who is actually right for me and he's going to be wonderful and it's going to work out.
Taylor Swift
#22. I was the lead designer on 'Portal,' and I really enjoyed making that type of game.
Kim Swift
#23. In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
Taylor Swift
#24. When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.
Graham Swift
#25. Being young is an advantage. You've grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video games. So what do you want to see that's not been done? Innovation is really low cost for you. You can afford to take risks and fail to execute new ideas.
Kim Swift
#26. Senator [George] Mitchell is a man of many talents and he's swift on his feet, but one would not think of him as 'dancing with the stars.' And we had this great rock 'n' roll fund raiser.
Barbara Mikulski
#27. Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !
Jonathan Swift
#28. Sometimes the person you'd take a bullet for is the person behind the trigger.
Taylor Swift
#29. Be yourself, chase your dreams, and just never say never. That's the best advice I could ever give someone.
Taylor Swift
#31. A woman who can read can educate herself. A woman who cannot knows only what she is told.
Teresa Swift
#32. Precipitous creature,' Kruppe muttered, reaching for the mug of wine the man had left behind. 'Ah, look at this,' he said, frowning up at Crokus, 'nigh two-thirds full. A potential waste!' Kruppe drank it down in one swift gulp, then sighed. 'Said potential averted, Dessembrae be praised.
Steven Erikson
#33. The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well I've mostly done what I want to do.' But how could you ever prevent a few years down the line some germ of an idea getting at you and you've got to do it again?
Graham Swift
#34. Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own.
Myrtle Reed
#35. Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
Jonathan Swift
#37. The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Charles R. Swindoll
#38. You can't be in love with a Google search.
Taylor Swift
#39. I don't think it should be a big deal who you love.
Taylor Swift
#40. FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again ... even though every time you've tried before you've lost.
Taylor Swift
#41. You never imagine that when you say hello to someone and you fall in love, that some day you'll have to say goodbye.
Taylor Swift
#42. I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.
Taylor Swift
#43. Ego and superego were dispatched with a single swift, killing blow and in swaggered my new ruler - that primitive little hedonistic bastard, the id.
Karen Marie Moning
#44. Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.
Taylor Swift
#45. I got a ill gift, I'm real swift
They be like, 'Damn, he's still rich.'
When I send my Men in Black,
Listen, none of them niggas named Will Smith.
Cam'ron
#46. I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it to feel sane.
Taylor Swift
#47. In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.
Jonathan Swift
#48. You must be swift as the wind, dense as the forest, rapacious as fire, steadfast like a mountain, mysterious as night and mighty as thunder.
Sun Tzu
#49. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.
George W. Bush
#50. Who would want to get back together with Taylor Swift after having dated her? I'm sure dating her is like talking to a white sheet of paper with a little bit of vanilla ice cream on it that doesn't say anything.
Kurt Braunohler
#51. Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.
Gerald Durrell
#52. It's okay to wonder how you could try so hard and still get stomped all over. Just don't let them change you.
Taylor Swift
#53. Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift defeat.
Georgi Plekhanov
#54. Never let a boy be your life. They can live in your world, but never make a guy your world.
Taylor Swift
#56. Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.
Taylor Swift
#57. My nightly craft is winged in white, a dragon of night dark sea.
Swift born, dream bound and rudderless, her captain and crew are me.
We've sailed a hundred sleeping tides where no seaman's ever been
And only my white-winged craft and I know the wonders we have seen.
Anne McCaffrey
#58. My level of awkward makes everyone else feel normal
Taylor Swift
#59. I don't think I was born to be in the club. Just to throw that out there.
Taylor Swift
#60. I'm friends with Taylor Swift, and I am tired of people asking me questions about our friendship. When I post a picture of us on Instagram, I'm posting a picture of me and my friend.
Sarah Hyland
#61. And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
Taylor Swift
#62. You have to be happy with who you are and the choices you make. If you don't like yourself, you'll never be truly happy.
Taylor Swift
#63. "Lawyers Are": Those whose interests and abilities lie in perverting, confounding and eluding the law.
Jonathan Swift
#64. In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.
Horace Mann
#65. Ah, whither shall a maiden flee, When a bold youth so swift pursues, And siege of tenderest courtesy, With hope perseverant, still renews!
Coventry Patmore
#67. I always thought I'd be really fun to sing a song with Miley.
Taylor Swift
#68. I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.
Taylor Swift
#69. The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.
Jonathan Swift
#70. Well, if you didn't like that, this is going to feel like a swift kick to the nuts.
Victoria Scott
#71. My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet ... is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.
Taylor Swift
#72. They're [haters] just building you up to knock you down. But for me, they haven't.
Taylor Swift
#73. I've learned that you can't predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card.
Taylor Swift
#74. Some things are better when it's raining. Like reading. Or sleeping. Or this."
"Lying in bed with me?
Lisa Kleypas
#75. Poetry is a series of explanations of life, fading off into horizons too swift for explanations.
Carl Sandburg
#76. Sometimes in life you have to be your own best friend.
Taylor Swift
#77. Darkness is patient, always waiting for its chance, and swift to take it.
Mark Lawrence
#78. Swiftly walk o'er the western wave, Spirit of Night! Out of the misty eastern cave, Where, all the long and lone daylight, Thou wovest dreams of joyand fear, Which make thee terrible and dear, Swift be thy flight!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#80. I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been ... challenging.
Taylor Swift
#81. We did a 60 page book in one day. She's one of the most photogenic, easy to shoot, inspiring, extraordinary people in front of the camera who I've ever photographed. Yes Taylor Swift has it all. My goodness that girl has it all, what can I say she's extraordinary.
Nigel Barker
#83. I keep one eye on the path I didn't choose every day.
Taylor Swift
#85. A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
Warren E. Burger
#86. The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.
Henry Miller
#87. Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love ...
Thomas A Kempis
#88. She was quick of mind and swift of tongue, always ready to answer a set down with the kind of witty rebuke most of us can think of only long after the moment of insult has passed.
Geraldine Brooks
#89. You only get so many firsts, each one is a blessing.
Taylor Swift
#90. Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.
Jonathan Swift
#93. It was an actual Christmas tree farm. We had, like, 15 acres. It was really fun as a kid. I also spent my summers at the Jersey Shore, on the bay in Stone Harbor. I walked everywhere barefoot. It was just the most amazing, magical way to grow up.
Taylor Swift
#94. beholders. His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic.
Jonathan Swift
#95. Through it all nobody gets me like you do.
Taylor Swift
#96. I'm not concerned with people seeing me in a certain way. Some people see me as a kid, some people see me as an adult. But I'm seriously not going to complain how anybody sees me, as long as they see me.
Taylor Swift
#97. I have sparred with commenters as a music writer (on The Rumpus, among other places, see e.g., my review about Taylor Swift), and that was plenty of training!
Rick Moody
#98. But I love to write music. What I would love to do is give some of the songs I write to someone like Taylor Swift because I feel like she could sing them.
Keegan Allen
#99. When you see something bad happening out in the world, you should try to help in whatever way you can.
Taylor Swift
#100. Opium is not so stupefying to many persons as an afternoon sermon.
Jonathan Swift
