I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
No river swells without getting muddy.
The river does not swell with clear water.
The frog wanted to be an ox and swelled up until he burst.
Let your love be like drizzle: it comes softly, but still swells the river.
Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra organ, and the people that have it, for a huge part, are willfully and deliberately fucked-up past the point of ever having anything sweet or human or normal about themselves ever...
No matter how full the river, it still wants to swell more.
I learned the strange art of loneliness, the weathered yearning that swells and passes, and swells and passes, when you walk a trail alone.
Women made such swell friends. Awfully swell. In the first place, you had to be in love with a woman to have a basis of friendship.
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 growing or swelling.
I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn't write swelled and swelled like an old-fashioned airship and drifted away at last through the night sky.
Here for example the beautiful silver mirror of a river swells, a boy falls in, the water ripples sweetly around his locks, he sinks - and after a short while the silver mirror swells as before.
Do you know how, sometimes, when you first wake up, your pulse is so thorough, so slow, that you, and the one who is with you, and the room, and the opening light all seem to swell and subside and swell inside your heart?
John Bender: My impression of life at Big Bri's house, "Son?" "Yeah, Dad?" "How was your day, son?" "Great, Dad. How's yours?" "Super. Say, how would like to go fishing this weekend?" "Great, Dad. But I got homework to do." "That's okay, son. You can...
Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may, swell.
When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.
The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.
My eyes still swelled with tears, but my heart was dancing the lazgi.
Some people grow under responsibility; others swell.
My mom was married to a Mexican guy - a surfer - and so we'd kind of camp out on the beach the swell season.
The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.
