I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.
Sylvia Plath
Related If I am a sword, I am a sword made of glass, and I feel myself beginning to shatter. VICTORIA AVEYARD It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straigh... CHAZ BONO I think the best thing I can say about it - and I think the best thing you can say about anything, r... GAEL GARCIA BERNAL I don’t hate you, Pattern,” Shallan said. “I hate the sword.” “But—” “The sword isn�... BRANDON SANDERSON But a whole bottle was what made me feel dead inside. And it worked, all the days stress was gone an... HOLLY HOOD I went into the classroom and let the kids listen to my daughter's heartbeat and feel my stomach. My... DONNA ROSCOE I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. ... FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK We have conversations most nights, Sylvia Plath and me. On these cold wintry nights with our coffee ... AVIJEET DAS Could you do a glamour and turn into something smaller?" I asked it. "Preferably not a chain, since ... RICK RIORDAN (Expletive) great, ... Shave my head, cover me in blood, and I'm into it. Learn to fight with a swor... PETER DINKLAGE My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went a... JAMIE FOXX But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword. As a mortal, I was never... RICK RIORDAN The Word of God is active, energizing, sharp and powerful like a two-edged sword. JOYCE MEYER You mean, you'll put down your rock and I'll put down my sword and we'll try and kill each other lik... THE PRINCESS BRIDE There's nothing militant about Jesus. I don't read anything like that in any of the gospels. Peter d... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea. Please get me out of jail and I promise I will never drink ag... CHELSEA HANDLER I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like g... GEORGE MONTGOMERY My best friend in medical school was a magician. And we were shown an X-ray of a sword-swallower, an... HANS ROSLING Everybody in my country is jumping, I think. And everybody at the Olympics will drink lots of vodka. ALEXANDER OVECHKIN It sucks, but no Long Islands or margaritas when you drink. It has to be straight vodka. NICOLE POLIZZI We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me! AVIJEET DAS My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that ... JOHN BUNYAN If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine. RICHARD BURTON At the point when I lost my father, it really made me want to be like a father and be like my father... SCOTTIE PIPPEN But it was Valentine. I saw him. In fact, he had the Sword with him when he came down to the cells a... CASSANDRA CLARE I thought I'd feel relieved, but I didn't feel anything at all. I was just numb. I thought I was goi... ALAN HALL I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black... DELTA BURKE I dropped what I was carrying. I went straight to the alcohol section and got myself a bottle of vod... DANIEL CRAIG (It was) like a giant hand reaching down from the sky, grabbing me like a frog, and throwing me full... TOM GREEN You said sloppy! Look, I didn't even use my sword; I hit him with my head, like a moron. ILONA ANDREWS I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alo... PATRICIA MARX I look back at Danny and I think about what Ginny said to me: Friends act like friends. My stomach t... A.S. KING It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled a... CAROL BIRCH All actors who have been around for a long time, which I have, and have been skint for long periods,... BILL NIGHY For me, triathlons were something that was down to me and my fitness. Now, I really enjoy the pain i... JENSON BUTTON I knew something had to change, but I didn't know what it was, ... Now, I feel like I have my priori... LEE WILLIAMS He put the book down. “As you wish.” He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting h... ILONA ANDREWS The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am... GEORGE ROGERS CLARK I felt like I made a decent pitch, and he went down and got it. But it was a solo home run, so it wa... JAKE WESTBROOK My insides fluttered, sending curls of heat through my stomach and shivers all the way down my spine... JULIE KAGAWA Three shots of vodka after every game. It's a must. It does the trick for me. Then after three shots... VLADIMIR KRIKUNOV When Lofton came into the dugout, he said it was hard to see anything that had any kind of break to ... BRETT MYERS I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography an... NIKOLAJ COSTER-WALDAU I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my voca... DIANE KRUGER I do not feel like I was gypped in my life at all. I actually feel as though I was given a special g... DOROTHY MOORE Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundre... RAINER MARIA RILKE What I didn't need was some hot-and-cold long-distance flake wasting my time. It hurt my feelings an... MINDY KALING Last summer my dad, brother and I went fishing off of Lake Erie. We charted a couple of boats and st... ROBBIE KLEIN The last couple of days I have thought about it because it did come down to these two teams. It was ... DONYELL MARSHALL There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minu... VIV ALBERTINE It just became a deal where I didn't feel like it was the team, I felt like it was 'me. I went throu... BRAD CHILDRESS For the next nine months, Sylvia would report on campus trends, politics, tastes, style. It was an h... ELIZABETH WINDER I'm pretty good as long as my sword was handy, ... The punching was hard for me because I punch like... CATHERINE ZETA JONES I am that is, my sword shall wield for me. BRIAN JACQUES My brother has his sword, King Robert has his warhammer and I have my mind...and a mind needs books ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Oh, but my stomach, she is like a waterbed covered in flannel. When I lie on my side in bed, my stom... ANNE LAMOTT I've adapted my footwork and my punches are a lot harder now. My first fight was like my amateur fig... AMIR KHAN We did it. We beat a great team. All the people in my country will be jumping up and down and will d... ALEXANDER OVECHKIN I looked down at my clothes. They were slashed to pieces and full of bullet holes, but I was fine. N... RICK RIORDAN He took my hand in his. I gasped when our skin touched and looked into his eyes in a kind of shocked... JASMINE DUBROFF It was powerful enough to knock me down a row and lift me off my feet. BRUCE FULLER Rocking back and forth, she clutched the sword like it was the only thing she had ever loved, and le... CASSANDRA CLARE And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? for I have nei... BIBLE then things got even stranger. Mr. Brunner, who'd been out in front of the museum a minute befo... RICK RIORDAN Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I How can you be like this?' I whisper. 'How can you even trust me, after everything?' 'I'm not sure I... RAINBOW ROWELL Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have ... JONI MITCHELL 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON Working out for me is something I do when I feel like it. But it's really about feeling good and... LEA MICHELE What is the Pain of Losing someone you deeply love, I cant really explain it but is like taking a Bl... HLONIM It was my last option there. He was practically holding me down in the front, so I had to go behind ... MATT POSKAY I will attained victory by God and my sword. ANON. I have a realistic grasp of my own strengths and weaknesses. My mind is my weapon. My brother has hi... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I was willing to kick it, but it was a wide open lane, so I went straight down. WILL BYNUM I like Sprite a lot, but I try not to drink it. My mom doesn't want me to drink Sprite because i... MADDIE ZIEGLER I didn’t mean to fall in love with you. But it happened. And I can’t erase it. I can’t ignore ... DAVID LEVITHAN Perrotte frowned. “I’d like to turn a plowshare into a sword ,” she said. “I’d cut our way... MERRIE HASKELL Names are just words. I know that. But learning that the last name I’d used all my life was fake�... RACHEL HAWKINS I went out to shoot with (my dad) and he let me know straight out what I was doing wrong and how to ... JODI HOWELL I don't know if it deflected or what. It was going straight at my blocker; I kind of jumped up to gr... JOHN GRAHAME I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a learning experience. Then again, I like to think ... P. J. O'ROURKE I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a ''learning experience.'' Then again, I like to th... P. J. O'ROURKE I enjoyed my time at L.S.U. I wouldn't change it for anything. My dad went to college - my siste... BEN SIMMONS She was drinking champagne and straight vodka and occasionally popping a pill, ... I said, 'Marilyn,... JAMES BACON I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call... JOE MCNALLY
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SYLVIA PLATH I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to. SYLVIA PLATH But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn... SYLVIA PLATH I felt wise and cynical as all hell. SYLVIA PLATH I was supposed to be having the time of my life. SYLVIA PLATH That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite secu... SYLVIA PLATH To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream. SYLVIA PLATH When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know. "Oh, sure you know," the photogr... SYLVIA PLATH The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it. SYLVIA PLATH The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. SYLVIA PLATH What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is ... SYLVIA PLATH So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being ... SYLVIA PLATH My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off ... SYLVIA PLATH I Am Vertical But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the ... SYLVIA PLATH The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull. SYLVIA PLATH What did my arms do before they held you? SYLVIA PLATH I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have. SYLVIA PLATH Is anyone anywhere happy? SYLVIA PLATH I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to rea... SYLVIA PLATH I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but... SYLVIA PLATH What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder But it has no soul. SYLVIA PLATH You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult ki... SYLVIA PLATH It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing nega... SYLVIA PLATH Hastanenin arazisi yeni yağmış karla örtülüydü -bu bir Noel serpintisi değil, ocak ayının ... SYLVIA PLATH Pazar - doktorların cenneti! Doktorlar özel kulüplerde, doktorlar deniz kıyısında, doktorlar m... SYLVIA PLATH