Swale Quotes

#1. THE SALINAS VALLEY is in Northern California. It is a long narrow swale between two ranges of mountains, and the Salinas River winds and twists up the center until it falls at last into Monterey Bay.

John Steinbeck

#2. Sunlight Chisels out every angle, swale, and creature on the surface, and ties you right to everything by your eyesight. The sky usually shines so blue it will make your eyes hurt. The ground glows a fine gold and the sky cuts right into the horizon like a blue knife into a warm loaf of bread.

Rex Fuller

#3. In a swale below, isolated at the edge of the campus, squatted a hulking concrete toad. Cottage 13 was no more a cottage than he was a prince.

James V. Smith Jr.

#4. The airplane was a complicated system encompassing many components, but to a skilled pilot it still had the intimate quality of a hand tool. The love that lays the swale in rows is also the love that parts the clouds for the stick-and-rudder man.

Nicholas Carr

#5. None of my teams win anything. They are an extension of my personality.

Jeremy Hotz

#6. In the early '90s, I wrote a play called 'Word of Mouth' in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that he's gay.

James Lecesne

#7. Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.

Sam Altman

#8. At the end of the day I'm just Linda, and Linda is a single professional woman, and a lot of women can relate to what I talk about.

Linda Sanchez

#9. There are 40 shades of silence in the wild woods.

Rosie Swale-Pope

#10. There aren't any type of programs which I have been used to do this... it's real as hell and death was in my pocket. - DeYtH Banger

Deyth Banger

#11. But this pleasure was not unalloyed with pain, and it seemed as if the universal joy of the awakening world could now only impart a delight which was half sorrow to her grief-crushed soul and withered heart.

Guy De Maupassant

#12. The Bible says, "Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered" (1 Peter 3:7).

Stormie O'martian

#13. Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

William Hague

#14. Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

Graham Greene