Top 76 Swann's Quotes
#1. But the presence of Odette continued to sow in Swann's heart alternate seeds of love and suspicion.
Marcel Proust
#2. I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn't want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust's very long sentences.
Lydia Davis
#3. She did not like being reminded that Jesus had died for her; it made her feel guilty.
Joyce Swann
#4. A story always ends just when it comes to an end. Like a breath.
Leonie Swann
#5. I have friends wherever there are companies of trees, wounded but not vanquished, which huddle together with touching obstinancy to implore an inclement and pitiless sky.
Marcel Proust
#6. The "little theme" from Vinteuil, heard by Swann as emblematic of his love for Odette, remains a point of reference for him, as the character of that love changes and as the love eventually fades.
Philip Kitcher
#7. Women in London must have learned not to breathe,
Irene Trimble
#8. Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.
Leonie Swann
#9. I think that most minorities have experienced some form of racial abuse.
Lynn Swann
#10. [The shells] do not have the meaning they once did, but, as Swann said in Remembrance of Things Past, "even when one is no longer attached to things, it's still something to have been attached to them." (22)
Anne Fadiman
#11. When one plays a part for a long enough time, he begins to convince himself that he is the character he pretends to be,
Joyce Swann
#12. When I was in college there was a girls' flag football league. The girls were extremely aggressive.
Lynn Swann
#13. The exchange of money for my willing participation was served on a silver platter, requiring nothing more than the abandonment of my principles and the departure of virtue, which fell in between the cracks of insignificance, given in trade for the simple comforts I once knew. - from "Plight" 2015
Don Swann II
#14. And historically the owners have used loyalty to a team or a city to hold players as opposed to always paying their worth.
Lynn Swann
#15. Distraught with the comprehension of his demise, a shovel stood dormant, in the ditch of her own digging. Now sheltered from the glare of greed and ambition, were the distasteful thoughts sprinkled in fool's gold.
Don Swann II
#16. An hour or so later he received a note from Odette. Swann had left his cigarette case at her house. "If only," she wrote, "you had also forgotten your heart! I should never have let you have it back.
Marcel Proust
#17. Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.
Lynn Swann
#18. We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?
Lynn Swann
#19. Cordelia was thinking how human beings can invent words, how they can line up their invented words side by side on paper. It was magic.
Leonie Swann
#20. Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.
Lynn Swann
#21. It's a funny thing, now; I very often think of my poor wife, but I cannot think of her very much at any one time." "Often, but a little at a time, like poor old Swann," became one of my grandfather's favourite phrases, which he would apply to all kinds of things.
Marcel Proust
#22. I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.
Lynn Swann
#24. And the heart gets watered and recovers itself. There is hope, everywhere there is hope.
Maxine Swann
#25. I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.
Lynn Swann
#26. You will become the person you choose to be.
Joyce Swann
#27. Why would I want a relationship when I can have cheesecake?
Renee Swann
#28. seems to have been somewhat glowing white (ionizing the atmosphere directly next to it), but was close enough to the lunar surface to cast its equally elongated shadow. (NASA photo No. 16-19238.) Even after the two Earthside superpowers did not return to the
Ingo Swann
#29. I let his rose wither in a vase on my desk, a vase painfully empty of flowers since the long-ago time when, on my birthday, Mario would give me a cattleya, in imitation of Swann. In the evening the flower was already black and bent on its stem. I threw it in the trash.
Elena Ferrante
#30. I was not a very good football player when I started out.
Lynn Swann
#31. Swann, with that almost arrogant charity of a man of the world who, amid the dissolution of all his own moral prejudices, finds in another's shame merely a reason for treating him with a friendly benevolence ...
Marcel Proust
#32. I am an Angel of the Light. You should not be touching my sweet, innocent flesh this way. I am a Vessel of Purity, undefiled by the pleasures of the flesh.
Bella Swann
#33. I feel like there should be more black head coaches.
Lynn Swann
#34. Pride will leave you with nothing more than what you began with, expectations not exceeding more than the failures you never accounted for.
Don Swann II
#35. Then his jealousy rejoiced at the discovery, as though that jealousy had had an independent existence, fiercely egotistical, gluttonous of every thing that would feed its vitality, even at the expense of Swann himself.
Marcel Proust
#36. Seek comfort in the warmth of the morality of your choosing. Not in the depravity and fear of lost causes, in which you should turn away, before it sees you, as well.
- Plight, 2015
Don Swann II
#37. The group was led by a very thin man whom the sheep didn't know. They looked hard at him. The leader of the flock is always important.
Leonie Swann
#38. We've had fifteen years of being grown-ups when we could have got together and we never have. Doesn't that tell you something?'
'Yeah, that timing is everything. Hit on me again now.
Karina Bliss
#40. But the harshness of his steely glare was compensated by the softness of his cotton gloves, so that, as he approached Swann, he seemed to be exhibiting at once an utter contempt for his person and the most tender regard for his hat.
Marcel Proust
#41. Professional sports is a business.
Lynn Swann
#42. Justice!" bleated Othello.
"Justice!" bleated the other sheep. And so it was decided that George Glenn's sheep themselves would solve the wicked murder of their shepherd.
Leonie Swann
#43. If a player demonstrated that he is the best, and a team decides, even so, we don't want to pay him, as in any other business, he should be able to play elsewhere.
Lynn Swann
#44. No sheep may leave the flock," he said to anyone who would listen, "unless he comes back again.
Leonie Swann
#45. She lay there like a beautiful lace covered present for the troll with her sweet hands wrapped up in the red bow of Lilith's red silk thong.
Bella Swann
#46. For Swann was finding in things once more, since he had fallen in love, the charm that he had found when, in his adolescence, he had fancied himself an artist; with this difference, that what charm lay in them now was conferred by Odette alone.
Marcel Proust
#47. Good God! Think of listening to Wagner for a whole fortnight with a woman who takes about as much interest in music as a tone-deaf newt - that would be fun!
Marcel Proust
#48. As she walked, trying to find a hotel--any hotel--she was offered at least ten different ways of getting high, four or five ways of getting laid, and at least one way of getting even.
S. Andrew Swann
#49. This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.
Lynn Swann
#50. Distance running to a professional athlete in my day was five laps around the field. And you stopped each lap to take your pulse.
Lynn Swann
#51. This God sounds rather suspicious to me, said Mopple.
Leonie Swann
#52. I enjoy playing the game. It's hard for me to just watch it, even while broadcasting.
Lynn Swann
#53. The real legacy of Christian homeschooling is people who grow to adulthood and influence a new generation of children. And the greatest tribute possible to the homeschooling parent is to see that work carry forward.
Alexandra Swann
#55. Is the price of happiness not weighed in the cost of commitment, the value of life's experience in the plurality of existence and measured in a love shared?
Don Swann II
#56. They can herd you only because you can't herd yourselves. Forget the flock. Forget the dogs. Herd yourselves (p. 223).
Melmouth, of the George Flock in Three Bags Full
Leonie Swann
#58. Anahita mewed contentment as she snuggled even closer to Imamiah. She was enjoying her interactions with Imamiah very much. She could not understand why angels remained as spirit when this flesh was so much more pleasurable.
Bella Swann
#59. I loved her; I was sorry not to have had the time and the inspiration to insult her, to do her some injury, to force her to keep some memory of me.
Marcel Proust
#60. I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child
Thomas Burnett Swann
#61. ...she grasped the terrible truth that love can never be compelled, from man, from sprite, from beast; that one who loves, however she longs for requital, however long she waits, may receive in return the reverse of what she gives, the dark side of the moon.
Thomas Burnett Swann
#62. He's my never - the person who I should have ended up with, the one who shakes your soul, but timing was never right.
Renee Swann
#63. You shouldn't believe what you don't understand. You should understand what you believe.
Leonie Swann
#64. Be sure to volunteer to make your community a better place. We all win when everyone gives.
Alexandra Swann
#65. Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.
Lynn Swann
#66. A man's love for a man is neither more nor less than a man's love for a woman, it is only different.
Thomas Burnett Swann
#67. Lynn Swann was an idol. It would amaze me how he could fly through the air and make those catches. I'll never forget the one versus Dallas. It was the greatest catch I've ever seen.
Jerry Rice
#68. Rapunzel shivered as she felt the tantalizing warm breath of the leopard and the vibrations from his panting tickle and tease her in such an intimate place.
Bella Swann
#69. Now, I'm not here because I was that good. I'm here because of the people around me made me that good.
Lynn Swann
#70. A properly trained lybrarian is one of the most fearless and fearsome beings in the world!
Jen Swann Downey
#71. The body is the temple of the heart. How shall we reach the sacred image unless we enter the gates?
Thomas Burnett Swann
#72. One felt that in her renunciation of life she had deliberately abandoned those places in which she might at least have been able to see the man she loved, for others where he had never trod.
Marcel Proust
#73. Very often we see coaches who have not been successful being recycled, instead of looking to a new face or a new name who has demonstrated the ability to handle the job.
Lynn Swann
#74. To think that I wasted years of my life, that I wanted to die, that I felt my deepest love, for a woman who did not appeal to me, who was not my type!
Marcel Proust
#75. Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.
Lynn Swann
#76. Life was indeed good for a Wolf-Creature in the deep woods who had found his very own little red-headed chew toy.
Bella Swann
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
