Swirls Quotes - Page 3

• With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.

  Jimmy Connors

  Tennis, Concern, Involved

  "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. July 9, 2013.

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• And when that bad news washes over you and that pain sponges in, I just hope you feel like you've always got two choices.  One, you can swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever.  Or two, you can grieve, and then face the future with newly sober eyes.

  Neil Pasricha

  Pain, Eye, Grieving

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• Long strands of drool stretched from between his fangs and dripped on the pavement, sending a heady scent of jasmine to swirl through the air. Perfumed monster spit. What was the world coming to?

  Ilona Andrews

  Air, Long, Monsters

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.73, Penguin

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• I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like barn swallows, I swing. There is a fruitless commotion of dust and rubber at my feet. "Smothered it," I say promptly. After enough lessons the terminology becomes second nature.

  John Updike

  Eye, Golf, Fog

  John Updike (2011). “Golf Dreams: Writings on Golf”, p.20, Random House

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• Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

  Pat Conroy

  Baseball, Wine, Numbers

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• Meet people from other cultures, so you understand that the world doesn't swirl around you.

  Christian Louboutin

  Other Cultures, People, World

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• I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.

  Martin Freeman

  Fog, Capes, Length

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.

  Roger Zelazny

  Song, Book, Fire

  Roger Zelazny (1989). “Frost and Fire”, William Morrow

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• An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. A swirl of water and a 'cloop!' and the May-fly was visible no more

  Kenneth Grahame

  Fashion, Blood, Sea

  Paul Brody, Kenneth Grahame (2015). “The Life and Works of Kenneth Grahame: A Biography and Collection of Grahame’s Work”, p.332, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The last time I wore an animal hide; but this time I settled for this." Eric had been wearing a long trench coat. Now he threw it off dramatically, and I could only stand and stare. Normally, Eric was a blue-jeans-and-T-shirt kind of guy. Tonight, he wore a pink tank top and Lycra leggings[...]They were pink and aqua, like the swirls down the side of Jason's truck.

  Charlaine Harris

  Animal, Blue, Aqua

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.501, Penguin

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• It was as though they had been plunged into a fabulous dream. This, thought Harry, was surely the only way to travel - past swirls and turrets of snowy cloud, in a car full of hot, bright sunlight, with a fat pack of toffees in the glove compartment.

  J. K. Rowling

  Dream, Past, Clouds

  J. K. Rowling (1999). “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets”, Raincoast Books

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• To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously, to allow what you're reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers, the so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?

  Adrienne Rich

  Reading, Mean, Multiple Choice

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• Focus your attention on the center of your forehead. Visualize that there is a slow but steady swirl of white light there. Visualize that the white light above your forehead is slowly moving in a clockwise direction.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Light

  Frederick Lenz (2014). “Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel”, p.103, St. Martin's Press

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• Ama wipes her hands on her apron, looks up at our old roof with new eyes, and lifts the baby from his basket. She twirls him in the air, her skirts flying around her ankles the way the clouds swirl around the mountain cap--her laughter fresh and strange and musical to my ears.

  Patricia McCormick

  Baby, Laughter, Eye

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• I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks, and I also have a flair for getting people to like me. But to be perfectly fair to myself, I am ever-ready to confess my shortcomings, too, and a quick round of soul-searching forced me to admit that I had never been any good at all at breathing water. As I hung there from the seat belt, dazed and watching the water pour in and swirl around my head, this began to seem like a very large character flaw.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Clever, Smart, Character

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• I love Toronto's long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the streets, and horrible winter always seeming far, far off!

  Guy Maddin

  Autumn, Winter, Long

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• In time they sank and decayed, and nothing is left of them except an occasional impression in stones, in stones now found in deserts and on high mountain peaks. Birdless forests block the sun in uninhabited lands. Insects swirl in the air. And then, in a majestic, bloodthirsty, and mighty heave, the spinal columns of the vertebrates rise as monstrous lizards and fabulous creatures; dragons flinging their fearful bellows up to a steaming sky... Slowly they become birds, birds as light as undreamt dreams. The searing roars become birdsong, whimpering flutes on warm nights.

  Erik Fosnes Hansen

  Dream, Block, Night

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• The value of market esoterica to the consumer of investment advice is a different story. In my opinion, investment success will not be produced by arcane formulae, computer programs or signals flashed by the price behavior of stocks and markets. Rather an investor will succeed by coupling good business judgment with an ability to insulate his thoughts and behavior from the super-contagious emotions that swirl about the marketplace.

  Warren Buffett

  Investment Success, Advice, Succeed

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• Overwatch doesn't just bring together the legal and espionage genres. It merges family problems with professional ones, swirls in a major helping of murder and mayhem, and with a deft touch, reminds us why politics is-always-perso nal.

  Brad Meltzer

  Together, Family Problems, Helping

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• I love this book! Cathy Malkasian's Percy Gloom swirls with echoes of cartoon landscapes from the past and present. You can almost hear Percy Gloom's meek, docile little voice. Her writing is so full of wit and charm that we, like the title character, walk dutifully to the edge and fall in. And like Percy, we are rewarded equally with night terrors and secret treasures.

  Jeff Smith

  Book, Fall, Character

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• I was a dweller amid shadows grim: Till FREEDOM touched my yearning eyes, and lo! Life in a shining circle, rounding rose, As heaven on heaven goes up the jewell'd night. New floods of passionate life swirl'd at my heart, Like Ocean-surges rolling round the world: And FREEDOM was my glittering Bride.

  Gerald Massey

  Freedom, Ocean, Heart

  Gerald MASSEY (Poet.) (1854). “Poems and ballads ... Containing the Ballad of babe Christabel ... Revised and corrected by the author”, p.26

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• Avoiding me, Quen downed a swallow of wine. "Trent is a fine young man," he said, watching the remaining wine swirl. "Yes... " I drawled, cautiously. "If you can call a drug lord and outlawed-medicine manufacturer a fine young man.

  Kim Harrison

  Wine, Men, Medicine

  Kim Harrison (2013). “Ever After”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• The morphlings from District 6 are in the camouflage station, painting each other's faces with bright pink swirls.

  Suzanne Collins

  Camouflage, Faces, Painting

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.776, Scholastic Inc.

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• Charred bits of black silk swirl into the air, and pearls clatter to the stage… I’m in a dress of the exact design of my wedding dress, only it’s the color of coal and made of tiny feathers. Wonderingly, I lift my long, flowing sleeves into the air, and that’s when I see myself on the television screen. Clothed in black except for the white patches on my sleeves. Or should I say my wings. Because Cinna had turned me into a mockingjay.

  Suzanne Collins

  Air, Color, Wings

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• A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane
  As night descends upon the fabled street:
  A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
  And ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
  Here though the world explode, these two survive,
  And it is always eighteen ninety-five.

  Vincent Starrett

  Lonely, Rain, Past

  Vincent Starrett, Peter Ruber (1995). “More Books Alive: New Treasures from a Master Literary Detective”, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box

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