Famous Quotes

"The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur."

Graham Swift on Amazing

More quotes about Amazing

• "Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be."

  Angelina Jolie on Amazing

• "If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you'll be amazed at the results."

  George S. Patton on Amazing

• "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."

  Harry S. Truman on Amazing

• "If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you."

  Les Brown on Amazing

• "Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."

  Conan O'Brien on Amazing

More quotes by Graham Swift

• "When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it."

• "I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open your field is the entire human condition."

• "In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic."