Sword Swallower Quotes

#1. It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.

Elizabeth McCracken

#2. My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, and I tried it and failed. Then I got a sword-swallower as a patient, and he taught me.

Hans Rosling

#3. There's about one sword-swallower per 2 to 4 million persons in each country.

Hans Rosling

#4. Knowledge is honestly everything. It's not just books and staying behind a desk and having a diploma. There's also traveling and knowledge about people, and what I do and scripts and books.

Jennifer Lawrence

#5. Fatigue is the best pillow.

Benjamin Franklin

#6. Just a single cord is enough to be tangled

Munia Khan

#7. The saddest thing about selling out is just how cheaply most of us do it for.

James Bernard Frost

#8. If I'm finally taking a trip into the unknown; there ought to be photographs to document this momentous event.

Kristin Hannah

#9. From a Buddhist point of view, emotions are not real. As an actor, I manufacture emotions. They're a sense of play. But real life is the same. We're just not aware of it.

Richard Gere

#10. It's fun to slap people around.

George Clooney

#11. I wanted to lose myself and I couldn't. I'm chasing an oblivion I will never find.

Michelle Hodkin

#12. In Japan people drive on the left. In China people drive on the right. In Vietnam it doesn't matter.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

Isaiah Berlin

#14. You are the author of your life. If you don't like how it goes, write it differently.

Iva Kenaz

#15. I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

George Gissing

#16. Working with kids in Soweto in South Africa, it's rough out there. But the bottom line is you've got to go to know. In Cambodia, there are 10,000 landmines. Same in Afghanistan, same in Colombia. I'm totally addicted to traveling.

Quincy Jones

#17. If the private life of the sea could ever be transposed onto paper, it would talk not about rivers or rain or glaciers or of molecules of oxygen and hydrogen, but of the millions of encounters its waters have shared with creatures of another nature.

Federico Chini

#18. There is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

Harriet Beecher Stowe