Swelling Quotes - Page 3

• Anyway, I'm digressing, but this is just kind of this 10-and-a-half-minute, ambient - you hear cicadas and birds and the wind outside and crickets as I'm swelling the piece. I could never do that on a pop record. I could, but why would I want to be agitating?

  Andrew Bird

  Wind, Bird, Pieces

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

  Francis Bacon

  Real, Passion, Heart

  Francis Bacon, Samuel Weller SINGER (1868). “Essays or Counsels civil and moral”, p.94

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• I'm not fat. It's just my awesomeness swelling up inside of me.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Awesomeness, Fats

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• Go! dive into the Southern Sea, and when
  Th'ast found, to trouble the nice sight of men,
  A swelling pearl, and such whose single worth
  Boasts all the wonders which the seas bring forth,
  Give it Endymion's love, whose ev'ry tear
  Would more enrich the skilful jeweller.

  William Davenant

  Nice, Men, Sight

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• One may decide that the nipple most nearly resembles a newly ripened raspberry (never, be it noted, the plonk of water on a pond at the commencement of a drizzle, a simple bladder nozzle built on the suction principal gum bubble, mole, or birth ward, bumpy metal button, or the painful red eruption of a swelling), but does one care to see his breakfast fruit as a sweetened milky bowl of snipped nips? no.

  William H. Gass

  Simple, Water, Eruption

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• [Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive "owners" who each in turn, as "patriots" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of "robbers" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn.

  Mark Twain

  Heart, Land, Feet

  Notebook, 26 May 1896

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• It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickenth the spirits, it keepeth and preserveth the head from whirling, the eyes from dazzling, the tongue from lisping, the mouth from snaffling, the teeth from chattering and the throat from rattling; it keepeth the stomach from wambling, the heart from swelling, the hands from shivering, the sinews from shrinking, the veins from crumbling, the bones from aching, and the marrow from soaking.

  Joseph Lyons

  Heart, Wine, Eye

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• To get rid of swelling... I put green tea bags on my eyelids. Or I grab cold spoons that I leave in the freezer and put them on my eyes.

  Shay Mitchell

  Eye, Tea, Bags

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• Now, we will compare the word unto a seed. Now, if ye give place, that a seed may be planted in your heart, behold, if it be a true seed, or a good seed, if ye do not cast it out by your unbelief, that ye will resist the Spirit of the Lord, behold, it will begin to swell within your breasts; and when you feel these swelling motions, ye will begin to say within yourselves—It must needs be that this is a good seed, or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul; yea, it beginneth to enlighten my understanding, yea, it beginneth to be delicious to me.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Heart, Giving, Understanding

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• The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tempest toward a sun-drenched Alicante or Santiago; there is the swelling sense of returning to repossess one's place in life, in the miraculous garden of earth, where are trees and women and, down by the harbor, friendly little bars. When he has throttled his engine and is banking into the airport, leaving the somber cloud masses behind, what pilot does not break into song?

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Song, Jobs, Night

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• Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  New Year, Book, Years

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• [In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the primitive purity, and shortness, when men deliver'd so many things, almost in an equal number of words. They have exacted from all their members, a close, naked, natural way of speaking; positive expressions; clear senses; a native easiness: bringing all things as near the Mathematical plainness, as they can: and preferring the language of Artizans, Countrymen, and Merchants, before that, of Wits, or Scholars.

  Thomas Sprat

  Men, Numbers, Expression

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• Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers.

  William Shakespeare

  Hate, Peers, Done

  William Shakespeare (2013). “The Wars of the Roses In Plain and Simple English: Includes Henry VI Parts 1 - 3 & Richard III, Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V”, p.786, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I know nothing that can so comfort the soul, so calm the swelling billows of grief and sorrow, so speak peace to the winds of trial, as a devout musing upon the subject of the Godhead.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Grief, Wind, Soul

  "Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon".

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• Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

  Pythagoras

  Sweet, Horse, Men

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• The time shall come, when, free as seas or wind, Unbounded Thames shall flow for all mankind, Whole nations enter with each swelling tide, And seas but join the regions they divide; Earth's distant ends our glory shall behold, And the new world launch forth to seek the old.

  Alexander Pope

  Wind, Sea, World

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.139, Delphi Classics

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• Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor.

  Jane Austen

  Imagination, Inspire, Lovely

  Jane Austen (2016). “Sanditon, Lady Susan, & The History of England: The Juvenilia and Shorter Works of Jane Austen”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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• For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For
  whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Humility, Men

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2012). “The World as Will and Representation”, p.234, Courier Corporation

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• Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche.

  Stephen Colbert

  Inspirational, Laughter

  "Stephen Colbert on why Stephen Colbert is awesome". Interview with Dan Snierson, ew.com. January 11, 2007.

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• The female covers her breasts, and then proceeds to redefine their shape with a brassiere. This sexual signaling device may be padded or inflatable, so that it not only reinstates the concealed shape, but also enlarges it, imitating in this way the breast swelling that occurs during sexual arousal.

  Desmond Morris

  Arousal, Female, Shapes

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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• There's a phrase in Shakespeare: he refers to it as the 'hidden imposthume', and this idea of a hidden swelling is seminal to cancer. But even in more contemporary writing it's called 'the big C'.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Writing, Ideas

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• Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's.

  Bob Burg

  Generosity, Giving, Ships

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• The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism.

  William Dean Howells

  Running, Tired, Science

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• I have enjoyed the trees and scenery of Kentucky exceedingly. How shall I ever tell of the miles and miles of beauty that have been flowing into me in such measure? These lofty curving ranks of lobing, swelling hills, these concealed valleys of fathomless verdure, and these lordly trees with the nursing sunlight glancing in their leaves upon the outlines of the magnificent masses of shade embosomed among their wide branches-these are cut into my memory to go with me forever.

  John Muir

  Memories, Cutting, Nursing

  John Muir, William Frederic Badè (1998). “A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She comes majestic with her swelling sails, The gallant Ship: along her watery way, Homeward she drives before the favouring gales; Now flirting at their length the streamers play, And now they ripple with the ruffling breeze.

  Robert Southey

  Flirting, Play, Way

  Robert Southey (1853). “The Poetical Works of Robert Southey”, p.99

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