Quotes About Swift

And out the door she flew

I sleep fast," he explained)

How can he be killed most easily? With the fewest stains?

Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.

I'm surprised by how fast the time goes.

When faced with a seemingly insurmountable problem... your only option is to act swiftly, some might even say irrationally. Removing the most dangerous elements first... and methodically attacking each subsequent challenge in a separate, but deliberate manner.

You didn't have to say it was gone. It was gone before it got outta here. It was gonna that fast.

Clemmie dropped on him like a jaguar out of a tree.

In the head of the adoring male is the illusion that sublime beauty is all head and wings, with no bottom to betray it. In one of Swift's poems a young man explains the grotesque contradiction that is tearing him apart: Nor wonder how I lost my Wits; Oh! Caelia, Caelia, Caelia, shits! In other words, in Swift's mind there was an absolute contradiction between the state of being in love and an awareness of the excremental function of the beloved.

He flew like shit off a shovel.

He swiftly pins his blade then draws a complicated and quick sign in the air

Within hours, all the Iron Wolves were starting to curse inventively.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.

I am fast and I always try to exploit that.

People in a hurry get noticed.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone. -from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.

The success of any trap lies in its fundamental simplicity. The reverse trap by the nature of its single complication must be swift and simpler still.

That's what's so miraculous about the city: each person's bearing and behavior vanish among these thousand sorts, observations are fleeting, judgements swift, and forgetting inevitable.

Do it once and do it right and do it quickly

The guy froze for an imperceptible period, just a blink of time, thinking as fast as he was about to act, and then he swooped down, twisting, his right hand whipping through a long arc, aiming to snatch up the gun and grab it tight and whirl it away to safety.

too, first rinsing Khenkin off my coat, which was easy

But silence and the topless dark Vault in the lights of Luna Park; And Blackpool from the nightly gloom Hollows a bright tumultuous tomb. He put it down again, shook his head, and sighed. What genius I had then! he reflected, echoing the aged Swift. It was nearly six months since the book had been published; he was glad to think he would never write anything of the same sort again. Who could have been reading it, he wondered?