Swanson Quotes

I immensely enjoy any experience directing. I've never hated it, and I've had bad experiences. At the end of the day, I just feel like I'm supposed to be on a set. I'm supposed to be working with creative people. I'm supposed to be working with actors and I'm supposed to be manning a project in this capacity. It's interesting. ~ Christine Swanson

It was a beautiful spring night, the air rain-washed and smelling of crushed blossoms, and Henry felt as if the muscles of his body were singing in unison. ~ Peter Swanson

From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical side of shooting a sound picture. ~ Gloria Swanson

After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named one of them Penelope, and I would talk to her and water her every day. Apparently, I over-watered her, and she died. That's when I knew I needed a roommate. So I got one. ~ Kristy Swanson

A common misconception of education comes when the definition of education narrows to the intellectual. The child is compartmentalized. He is not seen as a whole person, fully-integrated with physical, emotional, spiritual and intellectual capacities. Thus, if an educational program attempts to address the child's intellect while ignoring his spiritual and emotional development, the approach is sadly ignoring the true reality of the child. Likewise, those who separate the spiritual and emotional part of a child from the intellectual make a big mistake. You cannot delegate only the intellectual training of your child to professionals and retain just the spiritual and emotional for yourself. Whatever class is taught, the whole child is affected. ~ Kevin Swanson

Only the incomprehensibilities of a Triune God could explain the impossibilities of human philosophy. ~ Kevin Swanson

Try not to let your mind wander ... it's too small and fragile to be out by itself. ~ Denise Swanson

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners. ~ Gloria Swanson

Books are time travel. True readers all know this. But books don't just take you back to the time in which they were written; they can take you back to different versions of yourself. ~ Peter Swanson

Be Mindful of Death" (Memento Mori) ~ Peter Swanson

Going to school at home saved my life as far as education went. My parents were able to give me the attention I needed. ~ Kristy Swanson

An estimated 3.5 million people with serious mental illnesses are going without treatment (Kessler et al. 2001). That is scandalous. But mentally ill people are not the cause of the violence problem. If schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression were cured, our society's problem of violence would diminish by only about 4% (Swanson 1994). ~ Daniel W. Webster

John Knox's dying words were, 'Lord, grant true pastors to Thy kirk.' Such was the last prayer of a great man without whom there would have been no America, no Puritans, no Pilgrims, no Scottish covenanters, no Presbyterians, no Patrick Henry, no Samuel Adams, no George Washington. Could it have been so simple? John Knox's agenda was far from political. All he wanted were more pastors and elders. This is our agenda. Lord grant true pastors to Thy church! ~ Kevin Swanson

We sat at long tables side by side in a big

dusty room where we laughed and carried

on until they told us to pipe down and paint.

The running joke was how we glowed,

the handkerchiefs we sneezed into lighting

up our purses when we opened them at night,

our lips and nails, painted for our boyfriends

as a lark, simmering white as ash in a dark room.

"Would you die for science?" the reporter asked us,

Edna and me, the main ones in the papers.

Science? We mixed up glue, water and radium

powder into a glowing greenish white paint

and painted watch dials with a little

brush, one number after another, taking

one dial after another, all day long,

from the racks sitting next to our chairs.

After a few strokes, the brush lost its shape,

and our bosses told us to point it with

our lips. Was that science?

I quit the watch factory to work in a bank

and thought I'd gotten class, more money,

a better life, until I lost a tooth in back

and two in front and my jaw filled up with sores.

We sued: Edna, Katherine, Quinta, Larice and me,

but when we got to court, not one of us

could raise our arms to take the oath.

My teeth were gone by then. "Pretty Grace

Fryer," they called me in the papers.

~ Eleanor Swanson

Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. ~ Gloria Swanson

In that other life, I am the center of my world. Of course, I love and care about other people - many other people. But at the end of the day, my thoughts and actions are mainly about managing my own life and my own emotions. Here, ~ Cynthia Swanson

I love the beach, everything except the fucking sand, the fucking sun, and the fucking water ~ Peter Swanson, The Kind Worth Killing

Listen. I eat salad ... I just now ate a bowl of oatmeal. That's right. Because I'm a real human animal, not a television character. You see, despite the beautifully Ron Swanson-like notion that one should exist solely on beef, pork, and wild game, the reality remains that our bodies need more varied foodstuffs to facilitate health and digestive functions ... ~ Nick Offerman

Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions. ~ Gloria Swanson

I was 25 and the most popular celebrity in the world, with the possible exception of my friend Mary Pickford. ~ Gloria Swanson

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy. ~ Gloria Swanson

I and others on FIFA executive committee agreed to accept bribes in conjunction with selection of South Africa as host nation. ~ Bryan Swanson

The war is bloodiest when the enemy knows he's losing. ~ Luke Swanson

Freedom cannot exist without morality, and morality can only be defined by the God who, by definition is the source of morality ~ Kevin Swanson

Spending time around her house, I came across a cache of 16mm movies in her basement. It turned out that Barbara [Stanwyck] had a lot of her own movies, and I convinced her to spend some time watching them with me. I ran the projector. She had prints of Union Pacific, Ball of Fire, and Baby Face, among others. She didn't particularly like watching them, but she did enjoy reminiscing about their production: how she got the part, what the location was like, that sort of thing. She liked people with humor and always spoke highly of Gary Cooper, Joel McCrea, and Frank Capra. Oddly enough, she wasn't crazy about Preston Sturges; she seemed to feel that he expended all his charm and humor for his movies and that there wasn't anything left for his actors. In broad outline, all this sounds a little bit like the scene in Sunset Boulevard where Gloria Swanson sits with William Holden and watches a scene from Queen Kelly, rhapsodizing about her own face. But Barbara couldn't have cared less about how she looked; as I watched her films with her, it was clear that, for her, the movies were a job she loved, as well as a social occasion for a woman who was otherwise something of a loner. ~ Robert J. Wagner

There's only one thing I hate more than lying... Skim milk. which is water that's lying about being milk. Ron Swanson. ~ Ron Swanson

Let's just say I can never be cast again after Ron Swanson. Then I have a life of theater and woodworking and my wife to look forward to, and that doesn't make me anything but very happy. ~ Nick Offerman

Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years. ~ Gloria Swanson

Approaching forty, George felt as though his world had been slowly drained of all its colors. He'd passed that age when he could reasonably expect to fall madly in love with someone and raise a family, or to take the world by storm, or to have anything surprising lift him out of his day-to-day existence. ~ Peter Swanson

Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies. ~ Gloria Swanson

A central problem with the idea that wars are needed to combat evil is that there is nothing more evil than war. War causes more suffering and death than anything war can be used to combat. ~ David Swanson

Truthfully, I don't think murder is necessarily as bad as people make it out to be. Everyone dies. What difference does it make if a few bad apples get pushed along a little sooner than God intended? And your wife, for example, seems like the kind worth killing. ~ Peter Swanson

I wasn't an overbearing child. But I was aggressive. I always managed to get what I wanted somehow. ~ Kristy Swanson

All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year. ~ Gloria Swanson

Men are like horoscopes," Trixie cut Skye off. "They always tell you what to do and are usually wrong. ~ Denise Swanson

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair. ~ Gloria Swanson

By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I love everything Buffy . I don't care who's doing it. ~ Kristy Swanson

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived. ~ Gloria Swanson

I'm the kind of person that thinks that you should get what you deserve in what you show, with actions, not with words. ~ Cub Swanson

Your words can change the course of your life, don't be afraid. ~ Annisa Swanson

I know, right. I keep thinking ~ Peter Swanson

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it. ~ Gloria Swanson

Nobody gets something for nothing. ~ Gloria Swanson

If you educate an idiot, you end up with an educated idiot. ~ Robert Clarence Swanson

any life at all is probably more than any of us deserves. ~ Peter Swanson

There are many themes found in the Book of Psalms that are generally not found in modern music. These include the fear of God, the righteousness and justice of God, the sovereignty of God, the judgement of God, the evil of sin, spiritual and physical warfare, the arch enemies of the Christian, the destruction of the wicked, the reality of hell, the blessedness of the church, the vicious attacks upon the church, the commandments of God, the dominion of David's son, and so on. Without the backdrop of these truths, the themes of love, mercy, faith, and salvation become largely meaningless. ~ Kevin Swanson

The Psalms draw a hard and fast distinction between the righteous and the wicked, something that is not appreciated in a period of religious syncretism. ~ Kevin Swanson

he spent most days in a haze of disinterest. ~ Peter Swanson

to go to bed, and that's when I saw him there, ~ Peter Swanson

While the world is "entertaining themselves to death," we are working and resting. This is the essence of the fourth commandment. We work for God and we rest in God (Heb. 4: 10). ~ Kevin Swanson

Seeing Tristan had never been the nightmare. My desire to be' normal' was - to become something I was never meant to be. Safe and complacent. To survive, but not to live.
'There's so much more than that. ~ Kara Swanson

Activism has always been the driving force for change. ~ David Swanson

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how. ~ Gloria Swanson

Honestly, on so many levels, I feel like motherhood has prepared me even better for directing than film school because all it is is troubleshooting and dealing with different personalities and emotions and trying to make everybody happy and at the end of the day reaching your own personal goals and agendas. ~ Christine Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said. ~ Kristy Swanson

Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood. ~ Gloria Swanson

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do. ~ Gloria Swanson

By the time I was 15, my mother had turned me into a real clotheshorse. ~ Gloria Swanson

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish. ~ Gloria Swanson

Everybody is tense. Tad does his best to ~ William Swanson

I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too. ~ Gloria Swanson

The loss of psalmody in the church is one of the early indicators of the loss of faith. ~ Kevin Swanson

Thinking is the natural activity of the mind. Meditation is not about stopping your thoughts. Meditation is simply a process of resting the mind in its natural state, which is open to and naturally aware of thoughts, emotions, and sensations as they occur. ~ Eric Swanson

I decided to be a smarter fighter. I already knew I was tough, so if I was smart and tough, I was more likely to be a champion. ~ Cub Swanson

I'm still a martial artist at heart. I believe in controlling yourself ... I think that's huge in life-to be a good man. ~ Cub Swanson

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world. ~ Gloria Swanson

I believe that in this way the teacher is the prophet of the true god and the usherer in of the true kingdom of god. ~ Kevin Swanson

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. --George Santyana ~ Richie Swanson

Nobody gets anything for nothing. ~ Gloria Swanson

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. ~ Gloria Swanson

That's my personality - to end up taking the hardest road possible to get to the top. But I think I will get there. ~ Cub Swanson

At 26 I felt myself a victim rather than a victor in the realm of pictures. ~ Gloria Swanson

I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it. ~ Gloria Swanson

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him. ~ Gloria Swanson

Never half-ass two things. Whole-ass one thing ~ Ron Swanson

Swanson's First Law of Directions: Those who can read, don't. ~ Dixie Swanson

In a theater you can fool everyone past the tenth row if you're good, but on the screen you can't really fool anyone for a second. ~ Gloria Swanson

I was born ready, I'm Ron F****** Swanson ~ Ron Swanson

And just like that,the cloth was torn. was it the days, weeks of the same argument was it the months without affection, or was it simply the year and a half wasted on empty promises from both sides?I don't know what ripped it, but here I sit with my needle and thread trying to fix it knowing it will never look as beautiful as it did when we first started weaving it. ~ Brittany Swanson

Her hand was like a bundle of chopsticks covered in a layer of tissue paper. ~ Peter Swanson, Her Every Fear

Whenever I'm asked what kind of writing is the most lucrative, I have to say ransom notes. ~ H.N. Swanson

I won't date a guy who doesn't own a toolbox. I'm not saying you need to be able to knock down a wall or build a house or anything like that. But I've been out with a couple of guys who didn't own toolboxes, and they couldn't even change a light bulb. ~ Kristy Swanson

If you don't see it with your own eyes or hear it with your own ears, don't invent it with your small mind and share it with your big mouth. ~ Denise Swanson

After 16 years in pictures I could not be intimidated easily, because I knew where all the skeletons were buried. ~ Gloria Swanson

I've been trying to figure something out. Why on earth would your ponytail stick straight out from your head? ~ Cidney Swanson

I shake my head and rub the bridge of my nose. "There's a whole lot more at stake here than just my happiness, so I'll let the doctors do whatever tests they want and answer any questions they have. But after that we save the world. And then we move on, okay? ~ Kara Swanson

Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it. ~ Gloria Swanson

I imagine she acted the way she thought you wanted to see her. ~ Peter Swanson

I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes. ~ Gloria Swanson

One of the networks sent me a TV set to watch. I didn't care for the medium. It depressed me. ~ Gloria Swanson

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat. ~ Gloria Swanson

When I die, my epitaph should read: She Paid the Bills. That's the story of my private life. ~ Gloria Swanson

On a film set, we're all glorified troubleshooters, really, as directors. It's not if a problem arises. It's when. ~ Christine Swanson

I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille. ~ Gloria Swanson

That's a big concern right now with these storms coming on the heels of a very wet week. The soil is saturated, and the high winds that are supposed to accompany these storms could potentially knock down trees, which often take down power lines with them. ~ Bryan Swanson

Every day I wake up and go to sleep, I'm thinking about beating Cub Swanson ~ Dustin Poirier

The thing is, and maybe I'm biased by all those years I've spent in fictional realms built on deceit, I don't trust narrators any more than I trust the actual people in my life. We never get the whole truth, not from anybody. When we first meet someone, before words are ever spoken, there are already lies and half-truths. The clothes we wear cover the truth of our bodies. But they also present who we want to be to the world. They are fabrications, figuratively and literally. ~ Peter Swanson

I've been fortunate enough in my career that I haven't been typecast at all. ~ Kristy Swanson

Not only are you hurting yourself but you are hurting those around you ~ Joshua Swanson