Swenson's Quotes

#1. The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.

Mona Simpson

#2. How different our prayer life would be if we submitted our will to God's. Imagine if we asked only for things to benefit His kingdom.

Amber Albee Swenson

#3. Take earth for your own large room and the floor of earth carpeted with sunlight and hung round with silver wind for your dancing place.

May Swenson

#4. Imperfect parenting does not cause addiction. If that were so, everyone would be one.

Sandy Swenson

#5. The measure ov overexposure is not how many times people see you on TV or in the bookstores. It's whether you can maintain the quality of your entertainment. If you can, people will always be glad to see you.

Bill Cosby

#6. Some of my favorite poems are "confessional" poems written in the voices of aliens ("Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson" and "Report from the Surface" by Anthony McCann), sheep ("Snow Line" by John Berryman) or a yak ("The Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia" by Oni Buchanan).

Matthea Harvey

#7. Body my house
my horse my hound
what will I do
when you are fallen

May Swenson

#8. Hannah! You've simply got to stop finding bodies. I swear you attract them like a magnet. If you're not careful, everyone's going to get the wrong impression of you." - Delores Swenson

Joanne Fluke

#9. Andy Warhol: I think everybody should like everybody.
Gene Swenson: Is that what Pop Art is all about?
Andy Warhol: Yes, it's liking things.

Andy Warhol

#10. No, she doesn't know it's me. I'm in disguise. Look, I know someone who does this with just a pair of glasses. And I have glasses AND a moustache.

Dan Slott

#11. The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then.

May Swenson

#12. Our guests have described a vast city spanning many stars,

Daniel P. Swenson

#13. Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things.

Peter Bogdanovich

#14. How could the Law of Retribution function properly when one party in a dispute was so wealthy and so powerful as to be virtually untouchable?

Reza Aslan

#15. Love came bearing love
A chalice of light
We bathed in love and drank it
Then our flesh
Seemed like the leaves
Enameled bright forever.

May Swenson

#16. The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

Yoko Ono

#17. Margin," Swenson says, "is the space between our load and our limits.

Kevin DeYoung

#18. He pushes his chair back and goes to the kitchen. "Are you hungry?"
"Yes. I'm thinking Kentucky Fried Rooster."
There's another chorus of cock-a-doodle-doo just as I finish speaking, and he laughs. "Henry's just doing his job, love.

Rysa Walker

#19. if you already have genes predisposed to an autoimmune disease, and you eat grains and legumes, you're putting your hand on a trigger, and it's only a matter of time before you pull it and allow the damaged genes to rule.

Nicole Swenson

#20. There is also a dog, but he does not understand English,

Isabella L. Bird

#21. People in the US think they are "free" because they always hear that they are, even if all evidence shows it is no longer true.

Cass Swenson

#22. Love is ... the bite into bread again.

May Swenson

#23. The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.

Phil Collins

#24. The best poetry has its roots in the subconscious to a great degree. Youth, naivety, reliance on instinct more than learning and method, a sense of freedom and play, even trust in randomness, is necessary to the making of a poem.

May Swenson

#25. [Pages left blank intentionally]
Don't ask why. Just accept it.

Cass Swenson

#26. This is the Rock, sweetheart," the owner added. "There's no tragedy you can't profit from.

Henry Mosquera

#27. Poetry can magnify experience.

May Swenson

#28. Marina Singh: "You went to Radcliffe."
Annick Swenson: "I didn't love it.

Ann Patchett