Swats Quotes

#1. Evil' is after all a relative term: there being a minor and pragmatical sort, to be disposed of as one swats a fly, and a vast, all-encompassing, one might say universal sort, that must be halted by any means at hand.

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. This I have to hear. You know she popped his cherry?" "Elliot!" Grace scolds, and swats him with a dish towel. "Ow!" He fends her off.

E.L. James

#3. Author Toni Morrison swats aside other possible sources of her success and says that the ONLY reason she is a great writer is because when she walked into a room as a child her father's face lit up.

Donald Miller

#4. After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

Tom T. Hall

#5. She heard the very beginning of a smile in his voice
a fetal smile
and it very nearly killed her.

Rainbow Rowell

#6. My hair is my best feature, long and wavy, bright gold with a hint of red, trailing behind me wherever I go like an afterthought.

Cynthia Hand

#7. Isn't love the opposite of rational?

Monica Hesse

#8. Why is everything always my decision?" I asked.
Because you will not tolerate anything else."
Oh, I remembered now. "Great", I whispered.
- Anita to Jean-Claude

Laurell K. Hamilton

#9. Dreading the trip. I've never seen so much medicine and

Danielle Steel

#10. Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

Oscar Wilde

#11. Politics is changing and as the demographics of different constituencies change so we need to be awake to the possibility of making gains where we have not traditionally done so.

Theresa May

#12. I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the Pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet.

Dick Gregory

#13. But I've always had a low voice, I can't yell, the words fall a short distance away like a handful of pebbles thrown by a child.

Elena Ferrante

#14. I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together.

John Lennon

#15. I encourage employers to permit their workers time off during the lunch hour to attend the noontime services to pray for our land.

George W. Bush