Swirly Quotes

#1. Hey," said Jace. who was sitting on an overturned speaker, looking at his cellphone, "do you want to see a photo of Alec and Magnus in Berlin?"
"Not really," said Simon.
"Magnus is wearing lederhosen."
"And yet, still no.

Cassandra Clare

#2. I recognized Meg's swirly handwriting and crooked my index finger into the side of the envelope to rip it open. There was no letter. Just a picture.
A picture of Meg holding a picture of me.
The word HOME echoed through my body like a rifle shot.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#3. The office' is a cemetery of dreams.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#4. The vortex theory [of the atom] is only a dream. Itself unproven, it can prove nothing, and any speculations founded upon it are mere dreams about dreams.

Lord Kelvin

#5. Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

Heraclitus

#6. Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.

Siri Hustvedt

#7. Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.

Eddie Cahill

#8. Strategic wisdom is an integral and multidimensional intelligence.

Pearl Zhu

#9. I have sworn to die painting.

Paul Cezanne

#10. Wouldn't it have been weird to go to high school with the Pope? You know, somebody did, someone's sitting at home, watching TV in Poland, they see the Pope, they think, "That guy was a jerk! He was so mean to me and now he's Pope? I got a swirly from the Pope!"

Jim Gaffigan

#11. Whether it's fashion or it's home, it's all about style. The clothes we wear send a message about how we are perceived, and our home does the same thing.

Tim Gunn

#12. This is the first fall that I haven't gone to school. Maybe that's why I feel weird all the time.

Jennifer Close

#13. It's good to know you won't be giving the god of archery a swirly.

Rick Riordan

#14. I take back everything I ever said about that boy being clever." He turned around to face the bar while leveling an accusatory finger at the closed door. "That," he said firmly to the room in general, "is what comes of working with iron every day.

Patrick Rothfuss

#15. I'm going to the bathroom, not to Beirut. What horrible fate do you think's waiting for me in there? Death by toilet swirly?

Melissa Landers

#16. I'm glad they're taking a step back. A lot of this is happening so quickly that people can't keep up with it.

Clementa C. Pinckney

#17. You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

Sandra Cisneros

#18. Gates Open at Nightfall & Close at Dawn in swirly lettering, and under that, in tiny plain letters: Trespassers Will Be Exsanguinated Bailey doesn't know what "exsanguinated" means, but he doesn't much like the sound of it.

Erin Morgenstern