Anthony Swofford Quotes

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

Anthony Swofford

• Despair
• Loneliness
• Boredom

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• Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Think
  • Emotional
  • Story

• By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • World
  • May
  • End

• The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Man
  • Law
  • Sports

• We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Believe
  • Wish

• I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Band

• As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Myself
  • Animal
  • Plant

• In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • May
  • Man
  • Action

• Silence is a text easy to misread.

  

  Alfred Angelo Attanasio
  • Silence
  • Text

• Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.

  

  Alfred Edward Newton
  • Leaving

• Not every actor is a Tom Cruise. They are not all used to doing big action movies and doing sliding bikes and cars and fights. So you've got to take actors who have maybe not done that kind of stuff and get them through some proper training first.

  

  Wade Eastwood
  • Done
  • Action
  • Fighting

• O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Dark

• You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Thinking

• We are a very open, very democratic site, which means we get all sorts of people. We do get some bad guys who are a few fries short of a Happy Meal. So we have to enlist the aid of our community to help us. The lesson implicit in this is that people will help you out and behave in a really good way. If you trust them, they will respond to that trust.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• Too much emotion is like none at all.

  

  Du Mu
  • Emotion

• Exercise is the main thing that helped me lose weight.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Exercise
  • Thing
  • Lose Weight

• Just do what you want, I don't think you should ever... pointers and tips from people is great, and it's good and I don't think you should ever shun down advice, but if you feel something's wrong, then you don't do it. And that's what I'd say.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Seen from the point of view of the composer, the most nonsensical practice is that of casting people in musicals who are unable to sing. No one would cast a dancing part with someone who cannot dance sufficiently to come up to professional standards. The same is true of acting. But when it comes to singing, more often than not it is amateur night. . . . Either musicals should be written for specified performers in the first place, or they should be cast with people who are adequate to its dancing, acting and singing demands.

  

  Ernest Gold
  • Practice
  • Dance
  • Acting

• The celebrity thing, I mean, Lindsay Lohan - what's she for? I look at that and throw my hands up in despair.

  

  Bruce Dickinson Iron Maiden
  • Celebrity
  • Despair
  • Lindsay Lohan

• The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Love
  • Despair

• Stardom happens - you can't plan it - it's destiny, and you shouldn't stand between you and your destiny. I'm letting my destiny play its part, and I go by my gut feeling. If I like my role, I say yes; if I don't, I just refuse, as simple as that.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Feeling
  • Simple
  • Destiny

• My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

  

  Anthony Swofford
  • Despair
  • Loneliness
  • Boredom