Jonathan Swift Quotes

The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

Jonathan Swift

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• I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • People
  • Me
  • Fame

• Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Confidence
  • Lack
  • Contagious

• What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Me
  • Stop

• Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Moral
  • Away

• I like to build things. I like to do things.

  

  Walter Chrysler
  • Like
  • Things
  • Build

• In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

  

  Sallust
  • Live
  • Art
  • May

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Back
  • Finish
  • Throw

• People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • God
  • Help

• If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Never
  • Talking
  • Restaurant

• I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.

  

  Patrick Troughton
  • Different
  • Years
  • Last

• I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Kids
  • Arts
  • Income

• Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Words
  • Marriage

• When I started in California, people would say, 'Enterprise who?'

  

  Pamela Nicholson
  • People
  • California
  • Say

• I like science - geography, meteorology, cosmology.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Science
  • Like
  • Geography

• I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Hungry
  • Nibble

• Whoever is for higher taxes, feel free to pay higher taxes.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Free
  • Feel
  • Taxes

• I entered the work force cleaning breast pumps at a pharmacy! It was a part-time gig while I was at school... no interview required.

  

  Chris Hemsworth
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

  

  Kenny Chesney
  • Up
  • World
  • Family

• Bittersweet is kind of my own favourite style because I want to be able to cry to the same song that I also can laugh to.

  

  Aino Jawo Icona Pop
  • Song
  • Style
  • Laugh

• An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Style
  • Artist
  • Evolve

• For me, 'I Am Woman' is all about transition. I turned 21 in December, so I'm not completely grown up yet but I'm not a little girl anymore. Just in that in-between stage. The song is everything I have ever heard a woman say. I loved this song for me and every young lady, girl and woman to be able to feel empowered in being female.

  

  Jordin Sparks
  • Up
  • Song
  • Girl

• The scholars of Ireland seem not to have the least conception of style, but run on in a flat phraseology, often mingled with barbarous terms.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Style
  • Ireland
  • Scholars