Swamp Dwellers Quotes

#1. I never really have believed in the existence of friendship in big societies - in great towns and great crowds. It's a plant that takes time and space and air; and London society is a huge "squash", as we elegantly call it - an elbowing, pushing, perspiring, chattering mob.

Henry James

#2. So are you moving on now? Is that what brought you to the grand metropolis of Valladolid?"
"No. The wind just blew me here."
"What? Like a plastic bag?"
"I prefer to think of myself as a ship. Like a sailboat.

Gayle Forman

#3. Failure is built into creativity ... the creative act involves this element of 'newness' and 'experimentalism,' then one must expect and accept the possibility of failure.

Saul Bass

#4. Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.

E. M. Forster

#5. Not like Tobias, who is almost shy when he smiles, like he is surprised you bothered to look at him in the first place.

Veronica Roth

#6. We live in a material world, not a dramatic one. And truth resides not in melodrama, but in the precise measure of material things.

Richard Flanagan

#7. One of the big myths about people growing up is that they are "digital natives;" that just because they've been raised with the Internet - that you're very adept at using the app on your phone - it doesn't mean you have any idea about how the Internet actually works.

Astra Taylor

#8. I'm fascinated by anything that deals with the unexplained. I love any show that totally makes me want to know more. How did they build these pyramids? Why did they find these carvings that look like spaceships?

Elena Satine

#9. One of the most important revelations about a period comes in its theory of language, for that informs us whether language is viewed as a bridge to the noumenal or as a body of fictions convenient for grappling with transitory phenomena.

Richard M. Weaver

#10. There are, for all of us, the things we tell everyone, the things we tell just a few people, the things we tell only loved ones (and perhaps therapists), and the things we tell only ourselves. And then, of course, there are the things we do not even admit to ourselves:

Jonathan Biss

#11. The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

Gail Sheehy

#12. What makes success is not your genius idea, but the execution and follow-through around it

Robin Sharma

#13. Donald Trump would not lose a single voter over any report indicating that his tax plan might not work.

Lawrence O'Donnell