Jonathan Swift Quotes

He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

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• I'm a teller of stories. I put bloody skins on my back and dance around the fire, and I say what the hunt was like. It's not erudite; it's not intellectual. I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker, and tell stories about the stuff I've been through. And I'm still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Dance
  • Fire
  • Professional

• I'm the rogue Canadian in my family – I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.

  

  Eleanor Catton
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Born

• I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

  

  Elizabeth George
  • Culture

• Anytime you introduce volatility, it is not good for business and not good for travel.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Good
  • Business
  • Travel

• A delicious smoothie is a really easy way of taking on lots of amazing skin boosting ingredients and was my first port of call every morning in the run-up to my wedding - I'll throw in frozen berries, banana, spinach, almond butter, almond milk, and oats for a quick breakfast quite often.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Morning

• The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

  

  David Hare
  • Opinion
  • Curiosity

• As a test cricket lover, and as a cricket lover, I like all forms of the game.

  

  Cyrus Broacha
  • Game

• This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'

  

  Adam Savage

• The sun's going down and we can't afford to come back to it tomorrow.

  

  Desmond Harrington
  • Sun

• I played rugby most of my life and then I switched to snowboarding, which provided me a lot of inspiration.

  

  Charlie Bewley
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Rugby

• Honest intention will not cure faulty practice.

  

  John Buchan
  • Practice

• Environmental scientists also show us clearly that from the environmental and ecological points of view that nuclear war is not preventable. The only way to get rid of this danger is to abolish all nuclear weapons

  

  Tadatoshi Akiba
  • War

• it's no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and ourselves are alike. Mostpeople have less in common with ourselves than thesquarerootofminusone. You and I are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Trying

• Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Reason
  • Seems
  • Inequality

• What's the news? None, my lord, but that the world's grown honest, Then is doomsday near.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Honest
  • Honesty
  • Lord

• Having your own space is getting rarer and rarer these days. It's dangerous giving someone like me - who grew up fantasizing about studios and records - the freedom and resources to build your own studio. I would just live in it, which is what I pretty much did for all of the '90s.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Freedom
  • Records
  • Resources

• The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be supressed.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Truth
  • Dangerous
  • Rogue

• The cat with gloves catches no mice.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Cat
  • Gloves
  • Mice

• I do have the most marvelous husband, children, and grandchildren.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Most

• Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Humanity
  • Made
  • Straight

• I suppose the worst case scenario is that people will get to the point where they can't actually afford to make what they want to make creatively. The industry is collapsing.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Want
  • Worst

• Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Writing
  • Advice
  • Teach

• There are some people who physically are not beautiful. But the way they are, the way they treat people, they become beautiful, and you forget all about [their looks].

  

  Dolly Parton
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Forget

• He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Rogue
  • Fiddler