Swanburne Quotes

#1. Complaining doesn't butter the biscuit" -Agatha Swanburne

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#2. In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.

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#3. No hopeless case is truly without hope." - Agatha Swanburne

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#4. To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions" -Agatha Swanburne

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#5. That which can be purchases at a shop is easily left in a taxi; that which you carry inside you is difficult, though not impossible, to misplace" -Agatha Swanburne

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#6. When things are looking up, there's no point in looking elsewhere -Agatha Swanburne

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#7. [A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

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#8. When the impossible becomes merely difficult, that's when you know you've won. - Agatha Swanburne

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#9. Whether people are fully conscious of this or not, they actually derive countenance and sustenance from the 'atmosphere' of the things they live in or with. They are rooted in them just as a plant is in the soil in which it is planted.

A.A. Buhlmann

#10. Busy hands and idle minds have knitted many a sweater; Busy minds and idle hands have knitted many a brow.

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#11. Maybe paradise is overrated.

Judy Blundell

#12. I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.

Taron Egerton

#13. The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil ... and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul, in which to range this widerspread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature ...

Henry David Thoreau

#14. He followed it down, in full flight now, the trees beginning to close him in, malign and baleful shapes that reared like enormous androids provoked at the alien insubstantiality of this flesh colliding among them.

Cormac McCarthy

#15. My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#16. He said it would ward off evil spirits. That just left me the good ones to worry about.

Mark Lawrence

#17. There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there aren't.

Simon Rich

#18. All that exists is the temple. In this sacred place, the only religion without atheists puts its divinities on display.

Eduardo Galeano