Swept Quotes

316 Swept quotes by 269 unique authors

There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy… — Susan Orlean
If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of… — Jodi Picoult
I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun. — Tim Robbins
I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up. — Laura Schlessinger
The difference between blues, jazz, rock n' roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It's scarier to look… — Russell Simmons
I've reduced a lot of the stress in my life. I've gotten rid of a lot of things. The light was turned on and a… — Wesley Snipes
I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy… — Michael Weatherly
A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other… — Boris Yeltsin
All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can… — Karl Marx
Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently… — Mark Helprin
Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various,… — Matthew Arnold
The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering. — Oscar Wilde
The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of… — John Irving
Buddhism holds that everything is in constant flux. Thus the question is whether we are to accept change passively and be swept away by it… — Daisaku Ikeda
Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them. — Annie Dillard
As I swept the last bit of dust, I made a covenant with myself: I will accept. Whatever will be, will be. I have a… — Wangari Maathai
... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks… — Louisa May Alcott
It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with… — George Orwell
You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena. — Jon Stewart
Doubts [can] be swept away only by deeds. — Winston Churchill
You see, Momo... it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel… — Michael Ende
Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away — Robert Frost
But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards… — Jack Kerouac
They're safe,'' he said. "And you're not made of glass". He swept me up in his arms. I laughed. "And I'm not made of glass."… — Sherwood Smith
I was carried away, swept along by the mighty stream of words pouring from the hundreds of pages. To me it was the ultimate book:… — Sijie Dai

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