Top 216 Swell Quotes & Sayings

My mom was married to a Mexican guy - a surfer - and so we'd kind of camp out on the beach the swell season.

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.

As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything's just swell.

Waning moons their settled periods keep, to swell the billows and ferment the deep.

Every man who takes office in Washington either grows or swells, and when I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing. The mischief of it is that when they swell, they do not swell enough to burst.

And I have asked to be Where no storms come, Where the green swell is in the havens dumb, And out of the swing of the sea.

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm.

Seen from the point of view of the particular group interests of the bureaucrats, every measure that makes the government's payroll swell is progress.

Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell.

I lose my mind if I miss a swell that I want to be on and I have the ability to be on it.

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?

But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.

The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.

There is something more important than the place being left. It's that swell of crushing emptiness that makes the insignificant seem anything but.

Transatlantic flights are unflattering. Hairstyles flop. Makeup melts away. Faces shrivel or swell from dehydration, and contact lenses give way to spectacles.

The audience was swell. They were so polite they covered their mouths when they yawned.

What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.

Success is rarely the result of one swell swoop, but more often the culmination of many, many small victories.

Nowadays you can't tell, watch the crotch, it may swell.

Do you wanna see something swell?

Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy. ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.

Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced.

The ground swell is what’s going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are clichés also, of course, and I’m sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

memories are like corks left out of bottles. They swell. They no longer fit.

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

When I was overweight, my back hurt, and my ankles would swell up. It wasn't the weight itself but the problems it brought along that bothered me.

When people call me the Amitabh of the Bhojpuri experience, I feel my chest swell with pride.

Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.

When I get really bloated my belly can swell up to the point where I literally look two months pregnant.

When you succeed, you know, you can get swell-headed or you can be failing, and then you are all down in doldrums. So I try, as much as possible, to keep an even keel.

Twins are usually hailed with delight, because they swell the power of the family, though in some instances they are put to death.

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!

Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

Here's the breakdown: alcohol dehydrates you and stimulates acid reflux. Then, when you sing on dry, irritated vocal folds, your folds swell. When your folds swell, they cause hoarseness, which makes you feel like you have to push harder to get a sound out.

We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of the meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will be tragic and the meatloaf man will not come anymore.

The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.

Their understanding Begins to swell and the approaching tide Will shortly fill the reasonable shores That now lie foul and muddy.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.

If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.

After sitting for two to three hours at a stretch, my feet just swell up. So I try to walk as much as I can.

Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.

When the storm brews and the waves swell, only an experienced captain can control the ship and save it.

I'm the greatest game-spitter of all time. I talk about the swell, the block, the 'hood. I'm a street commentator. I narrate how people live. That's E-40.

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?

It's real easy in a lot of businesses for your head to swell up, and you become somebody else. So that's one of my main goals in the business - to continue to be me.

If Islam is to be reconciled with modernity, these voices must be encouraged until they swell into a roar.

Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them.