Top 54 Swamp Thing Quotes

#1. To say it was a dark and stormy night would be a gross understatement. It was colder than witch's kiss, wetter than a spring swamp, and blacker than a tax collector's heart. A sane man would have been curled up in front of a fire with a cup of mulled wine and a good boo-, ah, a willing wench.

Hilari Bell

Swamp Thing Quotes #575
#2. Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest,

Charlie Daniels

Swamp Thing Quotes #19867
#3. I thought I recognized you.
Really? He remembered me looking like Swamp Thing? How flattering.

Josh Lanyon

Swamp Thing Quotes #28947
#4. Every swamp has a silted lining.

Brian Spellman

Swamp Thing Quotes #35819
#5. He's like the kid they use down in Louisiana as alligator bait. They tie him to the end of a rope and he walks out into the swamp. All the kid can do is hope they jerk the rope back in time.

Michael Levine

Swamp Thing Quotes #43642
#6. Concealment makes the soul a swamp. Confession is how you drain it.

Charles M. Blow

Swamp Thing Quotes #48833
#7. England's a nice place if you're rich, but otherwise it's a fucking swamp of prejudice, class confusion, the whole thing.

Hanif Kureishi

Swamp Thing Quotes #52140
#8. That's American English for you: more roots than a mangrove swamp.

Roy Blount Jr.

Swamp Thing Quotes #60145
#9. Uh-oh,' Lafitte said ominously. 'Swamp queen just go angry.

Jennifer Donnelly

Swamp Thing Quotes #62589
#10. We can have all the food and water we need, but without the sustenance of
real story, real art - without the wisdom, insight, and "life instruction" it brings - we will stagnate as a culture and become a swamp where quality life can no longer be sustained. So share your gifts! Share your art!

Derek Rydall

Swamp Thing Quotes #71275
#11. We've got to have major health care reform because that is the 800-pound gorilla. That is the thing that can swamp the boat fiscally for the United States.

Kent Conrad

Swamp Thing Quotes #75336
#12. Nancy Pelosi said that when it comes to cleaning up government, the Democrats have drained the swamp. The only problem with that is what's left after you drain the swamp: snakes everywhere.

Jay Leno

Swamp Thing Quotes #89155
#13. The breath of song in your remembering eyes cascades fragile reflections of time-steeped sunsets tinting delicate snowflakes with the solitude of a sleeping forest where ancient secrets lie waiting, undisturbed by knowing, tranquil in the forgetfulness of yesterday's silvery silence

Sean Terrence Best

Swamp Thing Quotes #91133
#14. Most successful politicians don't let the job swamp their lives.

George Osborne

Swamp Thing Quotes #95504
#15. Armed with my sword and wand, I was all set for a stroll through the swamp to look for a hungry monster. Oh, joy!

Rick Riordan

Swamp Thing Quotes #121586
#16. I've always wanted to make 'Swamp Thing.' I like 'Swamp Thing.' I think it's a good idea, and I thought it would be a good venue for a 3-D movie, but there were rights issues with 'Swamp Thing.'

Joel Silver

Swamp Thing Quotes #128138
#17. A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

Carson McCullers

Swamp Thing Quotes #133280
#18. I didn't hear him behind me. I felt him. Electric. Wild. One foot in the swamp. Never going to crawl all the way out.
And I wanted to have sex with whatever he was. Where was I supposed to put that in my head?

Karen Marie Moning

Swamp Thing Quotes #137235
#19. If we have a relationship with Jesus Christ and believe the Bible to be the Word of God, then we have no room for wallowing in the swamp of self-pity.

Lois Mowday Rabey

Swamp Thing Quotes #151550
#20. I was a demon. I could find a romantic opportunity in an insect-infested swamp.

Debra Dunbar

Swamp Thing Quotes #151710
#21. Did I say stab of Self Pity? No, I was trekking through the Swamp of Self Pity at this point, waist deep in my own stinking shit.

Nicole Hamlett

Swamp Thing Quotes #153301
#22. From Return of Swamp Thing
It's the old impasse:
I don't know what to wait for.

Kathleen Norris

Swamp Thing Quotes #161293
#23. If that's true why did it jump into the swamp?" Alex asks. "No normal horse would do that. Jump into a lake for a swim maybe, but not a swamp, unless it was a suicidal horse.

L. H. Cosway

Swamp Thing Quotes #164340
#24. Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless.

Dave Barry

Swamp Thing Quotes #206571
#25. I'm alternatingly brilliant and witless-and sleepless: bed is just a swamp to roll in.

Marilyn Hacker

Swamp Thing Quotes #208763
#26. We leave our home," she pointed upwards, "and come here. When we're done down here in the swamp of humanity, whatever you want to call it, we go home. To our real home. We all do. No choice. Whether you believe it or not.

Jonas Saul

Swamp Thing Quotes #210502
#27. Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels ... tacky.

Edmund White

Swamp Thing Quotes #212344
#28. The swamp had sent back the soul of her loved dead and put it into the body of the daughter she resented, and it was almost more than she could endure and live.

Gene Stratton-Porter

Swamp Thing Quotes #232636
#29. Norman stirred, turned, and then fell into a darkness deeper and more engulfing than the swamp.

Robert Bloch

Swamp Thing Quotes #238928
#30. Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.

Fernando Pessoa

Swamp Thing Quotes #266489
#31. The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can't live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin' wide in the turns.

Daniel Woodrell

Swamp Thing Quotes #273526
#32. Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.

Yitzhak Rabin

Swamp Thing Quotes #273929
#33. I turned into a swamp of inactivity, and because of this no one was able to see the gems in my depths.

Osama Alomar

Swamp Thing Quotes #290916
#34. You think you are some fine predator? A swamp panther or coywolv?" He pretended to inspect her. "Where are your teeth and claws, girl?" He bared his teeth. "Where is your bite?

Paolo Bacigalupi

Swamp Thing Quotes #341728
#35. Seeing into the future is not a straight line. You are given the choice of a hundred paths through a treacherous swamp. Some will lead you safely onwards, others drown you, and sometimes it's hard to tell which is which," my mother says.

Cat Hellisen

Swamp Thing Quotes #348899
#36. The world's oldest and deepest body of freshwater, Lake Baikal, is turning into a swamp, Russian ecologists warn.

Anonymous

Swamp Thing Quotes #388270
#37. Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.

Avey Tare

Swamp Thing Quotes #397842
#38. Save your shaming for the girl, Doctor. If I cared for human approval, I would have been dead long ago." He turned and started wading into the swamp. "Time is passing. I, for one, have no intention of remaining here for your betrayer to bring back the soldiers and their guns.

Paolo Bacigalupi

Swamp Thing Quotes #413878
#39. The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.

Jim Harrison

Swamp Thing Quotes #420700
#40. Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?

Henry David Thoreau

Swamp Thing Quotes #438516
#41. My room is a grave yard of whisky bottles in a swamp of stale beer, cigar ashes, and dick jokes.

Vincent Brooks

Swamp Thing Quotes #451209
#42. There are so many books I love for different reasons. For superhero stuff, I always go back to Alan Moore's 'Watchmen' or his 'Swamp Thing' run. Those are my two favorites, and there are indie books that I really love, like Eddie Campbell's 'Alec' books and 'From Hell.'

Jeff Lemire

Swamp Thing Quotes #455695
#43. When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.

Jerry Reed

Swamp Thing Quotes #458965
#44. But the outsider in May, the one from Briery Swamp who had never fit quite right, kept her tucked safely in her nook.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

Swamp Thing Quotes #474254
#45. As zookeepers, the Zabinskis understood both vigilance and predators; in a swamp of vipers, one planned every footstep. Shaped by the gravity of wartime, it wasn't always clear who or what could be considered outside or inside, loyal or turncoat, predator or prey.

Diane Ackerman

Swamp Thing Quotes #483347
#46. Joy is the goal of existence, and joy is not to be stumbled upon, but to be achieved, and the act of treason is to let its vision drown in the swamp of the moment's torture.

Ayn Rand

Swamp Thing Quotes #488813
#47. In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.

Berthold Auerbach

Swamp Thing Quotes #489582
#48. Stalking along from log to log, or plunging their long legs in the oozy swamp, two large herons paid no attention to my presence, but occupied themselves with their own fishing arrangements, as if their wilderness were their own.

William Cowper Prime

Swamp Thing Quotes #509186
#49. There are plenty of characters I'd love to write. Swamp Thing, Etrigan the Demon, Man-Thing, Howard the Duck, Dr. Strange, Dr. Druid, Ghost Rider, the Micronauts, the Shogun Warriors ... the list goes on and on.

Cullen Bunn

Swamp Thing Quotes #925082
#50. 'Animal Man' and 'Swamp Thing' have so many commonalities in tone and mood.

Jeff Lemire

Swamp Thing Quotes #1108411
#51. One of the things that's been really fun about my run on 'Swamp Thing' is putting him in all kinds of different locations around the world, and seeing how his exterior foliage changes based on his location.

Charles Soule

Swamp Thing Quotes #1369918
#52. I've found that if you have two films that don't perform well it doesn't matter that you've had a bunch of successful ones. The phone stops ringing, and after Deadly Blessing and Swamp Thing that's what happened.

Wes Craven

Swamp Thing Quotes #1454942
#53. I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing.

R.J. Palacio

Swamp Thing Quotes #1628394
#54. Balance was so elusive: either it was like this, too fast, or there was the heavy thing like wading through a swamp to get to the end of a sentence.

Edward St. Aubyn

Swamp Thing Quotes #1764296

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