Melanie Swan Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
-
Elmcrest CC, in Cedar Rapids, is where it all started when I was growing up. The tree-lined course has a very demanding layout that requires you to be accurate off the tee and avoid a number of well-placed water hazards on some of the holes.
-
I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
-
Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.
-
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
-
I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
-
Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
-
It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
-
I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
-
Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
-
I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
-
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
-
My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.
-
Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
-
No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.
-
The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
-
When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
-
Some of the senior people, the very senior astronauts, shook my hand and said, 'K.C., you did a great job. Don't let anyone tell you different.'
-
When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.
-
If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.
-
When I was four, we went to Oahu. It was the first time we celebrated Passover away from home.
-
Cooking, to me, it's kind of therapeutic. It's completely different from music as well. I'm not amazing at it, but I can cook myself a good meal. And I'm not just saying this, but anytime I'm on the bus or at home, I'm watching Food Network or cooking on TV just 'cause it's interesting to me.
-
Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.
-
The blockchain allows our smart devices to speak to each other better and faster.
