Top 100 Swanson Quotes
#1. It's my brothers"-Nathan croaked
"I don't give a fuck if they're your sisters"- Swanson said "I'll kiss them just the same
Maya Banks
#2. From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life.
Dirk Benedict
#3. I read Gloria Swanson's autobiography just because I wanted to know what it was like in the time.
Berenice Bejo
#4. Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire.
Rob Sheffield
#5. I'd always thought that being seen was about what people perceived with their eyes. But by the time the Eugene Field Memorial Middle School made the fall trip to the aquarium, I, Suzy Swanson, had disappeared entirely. Being seen is more about the ears than the eyes, it turns out.
Ali Benjamin
#6. I have a very healthy growth of both head and facial hair. People always want to attribute further superhuman powers to me. It's funny the way the audience really seems to want me, Nick the actor, to exhibit the same machismo as Ron Swanson.
Nick Offerman
#7. There's only one thing I hate more than lying... Skim milk. which is water that's lying about being milk. Ron Swanson.
Ron Swanson
#8. Let's just say I can never be cast again after Ron Swanson. Then I have a life of theater and woodworking and my wife to look forward to, and that doesn't make me anything but very happy.
Nick Offerman
#9. I was born ready, I'm Ron F****** Swanson
Ron Swanson
#10. Every day I wake up and go to sleep, I'm thinking about beating Cub Swanson
Dustin Poirier
#11. Why do you keep coming back here, Belinda Swanson?" Adam asked coolly. "I must be so fascinating to you." Deliberately,
Richie Tankersley Cusick
#12. I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.
Amanda Donohoe
#13. Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
Gloria Swanson
#15. I hate metaphors. That's why my favorite book is Moby Dick. No frou-frou symbolism. Just a good, simple tale about a man who hates an animal.
Ron Swanson
#16. any life at all is probably more than any of us deserves.
Peter Swanson
#17. Look at identical twins. When you get closer, you start to see the small differences. It all depends on how much you magnify it.
Bryan Swanson
#18. Wonder is a verb. An activity, like walking or eating cheese. Despite what we may think we are all already philosophers; the question simply is whether we do it well or poorly.
Thomas Swanson
#19. I'm a simple man. I like pretty dark-haired women and breakfast food.
Ron Swanson
#21. The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.
Gloria Swanson
#22. The Psalms draw a hard and fast distinction between the righteous and the wicked, something that is not appreciated in a period of religious syncretism.
Kevin Swanson
#23. Going to school at home saved my life as far as education went. My parents were able to give me the attention I needed.
Kristy Swanson
#24. The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.
Gloria Swanson
#25. I was born with a different kind of morality. The morality of an animal - of a crow or a fox or an owl - and not of a normal human being. I
Peter Swanson
#26. It was a beautiful spring night, the air rain-washed and smelling of crushed blossoms, and Henry felt as if the muscles of his body were singing in unison.
Peter Swanson
#27. For the record, chocolate's a pretty decent antidote for unrequited love.
Cidney Swanson
#28. When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it.
Kristy Swanson
#30. If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.
Gloria Swanson
#31. But there is something about pleasing your parents, even when you're grown up, even when you're almost middle-aged yourself. It never goes away, at least not for me.
Cynthia Swanson
#32. The day I initiated divorce proceedings against Michael Farmer, I was ready to retire to a desert cave and rethink my life.
Gloria Swanson
#33. My mother and I could always look out the same window without ever seeing the same thing.
Gloria Swanson
#34. Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.
Gloria Swanson
#36. Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing
Ron Swanson
#38. I was married when I was 17. I knew nothing. I was full of romance.
Gloria Swanson
#39. I wasn't an overbearing child. But I was aggressive. I always managed to get what I wanted somehow.
Kristy Swanson
#40. I didn't want to spend the rest of my life playing Norma Desmond over and over again.
Gloria Swanson
#42. The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
Gloria Swanson
#43. I dreamed of my other family, the imaginary one with boring parents,
Peter Swanson
#44. I love everything Buffy . I don't care who's doing it.
Kristy Swanson
#45. I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European.
Gloria Swanson
#46. The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.
Gloria Swanson
#47. In the mind of the kid in skinny jeans leading the worship band, there isn't a large enough gap between holiness and sinfulness, truth and error, demons and angels, or heaven and hell.
Kevin Swanson
#48. I tried to sleep, falling into a doze as thin as tissue paper,
Peter Swanson
#49. Or was she one of those rarities, a human who didn't need other humans in her life?
Peter Swanson
#50. When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life.
Gloria Swanson
#51. Our faith does more than assent to propositions, such as the historical fact of Christ's resurrection. Persons who believe in the resurrection will live in a manner that reflects that belief.
Kevin Swanson
#53. Thinking is the natural activity of the mind. Meditation is not about stopping your thoughts. Meditation is simply a process of resting the mind in its natural state, which is open to and naturally aware of thoughts, emotions, and sensations as they occur.
Eric Swanson
#54. Not only are you hurting yourself but you are hurting those around you
Joshua Swanson
#55. The only pressure I ever feel is the pressure I put on myself ... I'm over it. Now I go out there and I enjoy what I do.
Cub Swanson
#57. I imagine she acted the way she thought you wanted to see her.
Peter Swanson
#58. Good deeds, create good will, which opens the heart to the good news.
Eric Swanson
#59. I'm still a martial artist at heart. I believe in controlling yourself ... I think that's huge in life-to be a good man.
Cub Swanson
#60. The sovereignty of God has been dying a slow death of a thousand qualifications.
Kevin Swanson
#61. But for all of them, regardless of their ability, the responsibility of their education falls to the teacher. And who can fulfill that for every single child? What teacher is capable of that?
Cynthia Swanson
#62. Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
Gloria Swanson
#63. All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.
Gloria Swanson
#64. On a film set, we're all glorified troubleshooters, really, as directors. It's not if a problem arises. It's when.
Christine Swanson
#65. From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture.
Gloria Swanson
#66. A central problem with the idea that wars are needed to combat evil is that there is nothing more evil than war. War causes more suffering and death than anything war can be used to combat.
David Swanson
#67. I decided to be a smarter fighter. I already knew I was tough, so if I was smart and tough, I was more likely to be a champion.
Cub Swanson
#69. Typically, I like to talk and meet with actors face to face well before we start shooting.
Christine Swanson
#70. I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book.
Gloria Swanson
#71. My sculpture is very personal; for years my subjects were family and close, close friends.
Gloria Swanson
#72. And to take another life was, in many ways, the greatest expression of what it meant to be alive.
Peter Swanson
#73. Ultimately, we must turn to the God who is both the One and the Many for the standard of His law. He created to live both as individuals and as corporate units; and His law perfectly balances the liberties of the many with the power of the one political unit.
Kevin Swanson
#74. The loss of psalmody in the church is one of the early indicators of the loss of faith.
Kevin Swanson
#75. I've been fortunate enough in my career that I haven't been typecast at all.
Kristy Swanson
#77. By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#78. I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
Gloria Swanson
#79. I know this doesn't last forever, so I'm cherishing every minute of it.
Cub Swanson
#80. We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
Gloria Swanson
#81. Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.
Gloria Swanson
#82. We want to take our rugged individualism and turn it into a rugged covenantalism.
Kevin Swanson
#83. In that other life, I am the center of my world. Of course, I love and care about other people - many other people. But at the end of the day, my thoughts and actions are mainly about managing my own life and my own emotions. Here,
Cynthia Swanson
#84. History began July 4, 1776. Anything before that was a mistake.
Ron Swanson
#85. That's a big concern right now with these storms coming on the heels of a very wet week. The soil is saturated, and the high winds that are supposed to accompany these storms could potentially knock down trees, which often take down power lines with them.
Bryan Swanson
#86. to go to bed, and that's when I saw him there,
Peter Swanson
#87. I'm the kind of person that thinks that you should get what you deserve in what you show, with actions, not with words.
Cub Swanson
#88. Education is the preparation of a child intellectually, emotionally, spiritually, and physically for life and for eternity.
Kevin Swanson
#89. Activism has always been the driving force for change.
David Swanson
#90. After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried.
Gloria Swanson
#91. Everyone dies, but not everyone has to see someone they love with another person. She struck the first blow.
Peter Swanson
#93. In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.
Gloria Swanson
#94. I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb.
Kristy Swanson
#95. Much as I cared for Joseph Kennedy, he was a classic example of that person in the arts with lots of brains and drive but little taste or talent.
Gloria Swanson
#96. John Calvin called the Book of Psalms 'an anatomy of all parts of the soul.' All the range of emotions are expressed; the Psalms weave an emotional fabric for the human soul. These inspired lyrics take us by the hand and train us in proper emotion. They lead us to emotional maturity.
Kevin Swanson
#97. After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named one of them Penelope, and I would talk to her and water her every day. Apparently, I over-watered her, and she died. That's when I knew I needed a roommate. So I got one.
Kristy Swanson
#98. I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.
Gloria Swanson
#99. There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.
Gloria Swanson
#100. Only thing going through my mind is stay loose and stay fast.
Cub Swanson
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