Sweet famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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All the songs that were written for that album are just all our first sophomore songs. So they're all from real life. Very sweet and very innocent.
-- Ann Wilson -
Sweet to me was not the voice of man, But the wind's voice was understood by me. The burdocks and the nettles fed my soul, But I loved the silver willow best of all.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.
-- Anna Chlumsky -
Have Faith! Have faith in the Eternal Goodness. Believe that the core of the Universe is sound and sweet.
-- Anna Garlin Spencer -
Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud that she could love him.
-- Anna Godbersen -
When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!
-- Anna Letitia Barbauld -
Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.
-- Anna Netrebko -
Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals. If these little creatures knew how great a change awaited them, no doubt they would regret it; but would not all such sorrow be misplaced?
-- Anne Bronte -
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
-- Anne Carson -
It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.
-- Anne Fortier -
As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?
-- Anne Frank -
I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of holy water, the votive candles; I loved that there was a poor box, the stations of the cross rendered in stained glass on the windows.
-- Anne Lamott -
What fills us is real, sweet, dopey, funny life.
-- Anne Lamott -
A man dies and goes to heaven. He is being shown around by an angel. Everything is just so sweet and gentle, the total golden tender presence of God everywhere, a pond over there, a beautiful field there, and some hills for people who like to hike, and this expansiveness in every direction of sky and light and physical beauty. And there is this section separated from the rest; it has beautiful high walls. The man who's just come to heaven says, "What's over there?" The angel says, "That's for the fundamentalists. They don't consider it heaven if anyone else got in.
-- Anne Lamott -
My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him. I had some sort of gift and when it came time to try to find a publisher I had a little bit of an "in" because I had his agent I could turn to, to at least read my initial offerings when I was about 20. But the only problem was that they were just awful, they were just terrible stories and my agent, who ended up being my agent, was very, very sweet about it, but it took about four years until I actually had something worth trying to sell.
-- Anne Lamott -
Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.
-- Anne Lamott -
When my parents were liberated, four years before I was born, they found that the ordinary world outside the camp had been eradicated. There was no more simple meal, no thing was less than extraordinary: a fork, a mattress, a clean shirt, a book. Not to mention such things that can make one weep: an orange, meat and vegetables, hot water. There was no ordinariness to return to, no refuge from the blinding potency of things, an apple screaming its sweet juice.
-- Anne Michaels -
In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home. It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard. I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.
-- Anne Rice -
And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.
-- Anne Rice -
Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun
-- Anne Rice -
How shameful. How predictable! How insipid. And how sweet.
-- Anne Rice -
I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.
-- Anne Rivers Siddons -
He was raw and sharp and rich and throbbing with life. He was sweet blood after a long hunt. How could she have mistaken Aiden's kisses for this? They had been delicious and smooth like the brief comfort of chocolate, but they had never been enough.
-- Annette Curtis Klause -
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading -- that is a good life.
-- Annie Dillard -
He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.
-- Annie Proulx -
Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some invoke night perfume. Some had centers as bitter as gall, some blended honey and poison, some were quickly swallowed. And among the common bull's-eyes and peppermints a few rare ones; one or two with deadly needles at the heart, another that brought clam and gentle pleasure. Were his fingers closing on that one?
-- Annie Proulx -
I don't snack. I don't generally eat sweets or drink soda. I never eat between meals or even before big ones.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
The spirit of humility is sweeter than honey, and those who nourish themselves with this honey produce sweet fruit.
-- Anthony of Padua -
If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers...
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers.
-- Anton Chekhov -
A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.
-- Anton Chekhov -
A naive man is nothing better than a fool. But you women contrive to be naive in such a way that in you it seems sweet, and gentle, and proper, and not as silly as it really is.
-- Anton Chekhov -
I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.
-- Antonio Machado -
This is my breakfast: Two poached eggs, turkey bacon, and a half avocado. The yolks in a poached egg are alkalizing. Avocados are a great source of fat and vitamin E; great for your skin. Its super light and not too heavy. Sometimes I like a little sweet as well, so I have a cup of plain yogurt with blueberries.
-- April Bowlby -
You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.
-- Aravind Adiga -
I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.
-- Ariana Grande -
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
-- Aristotle -
Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.
-- Aristotle -
How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
Dance on, dance on, we see, we see Youth goes, alack, and with it glee, A boy the old man ne'er can be; Maternal thirty scarce can find The sweet sixteen long left behind.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough -
This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.
-- Artur Davis -
Sunday is my favorite day of the week! Hangin with the lil man and dancing to yo gabba gabba thanks andy sandburg for the sweet moves!
-- Ashlee Simpson -
Tough girls come from New York. Sweet girls, theyre from Georgia. But us Kentucky girls, we have fire and ice in our blood. We can ride horses, be a debutante, throw left hooks, and drink with the boys, all the while making sweet tea, darlin. And if we have an opinion, you know youre gonna hear it.
-- Ashley Judd -
I'm a hard man to fight and an easy man to please... A Rock n' Roll Outlaw on a Sweet Romance.. I Want To Be Your Man.
-- Ashley Purdy -
When fans come up to me and Vanessa, they're really sweet and ask for autographs - but once they see the guys, the girls tend to scream.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
Off the ice, I can be soft, and I can be elegant and sweet.
-- Ashley Wagner -
Steven Tyler is awesome. He is so humble. He's really sweet and coming from him and his career, it's amazing.
-- Ashthon Jones -
It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.
-- Augustus Hare -
Confined to common life thy numbers flow, And neither soar too high nor sink too low; There strength and ease in graceful union meet, Though polished, subtle, and though poignant, sweet; Yet powerful to abash the from of crime And crimson error's cheek with sportive rhyme. [Lat., Verba togae sequeris, junctura callidus acri, Ore teres modico, pallentes radere mores Doctus, et ingenuo culpam defigere ludo.]
-- Aulus Persius Flaccus -
When my YouTube videos started to get really big, I was like, 'Man, this is pretty sweet.' It started as my hobby, and then I started traveling and learning how to play different instruments, and then it just kind of became my life.
-- Austin Mahone -
Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.
-- Ava DuVernay -
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.
-- Avigdor Lieberman -
A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME WILL SMELL AS SWEET. BUT IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT WHATEVER WE CHOOSE TO CALL A ROSE WILL POSSESS THE ROSE'S FRAGRANCE.
-- B. B. Warfield -
A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar
-- B. R. Ambedkar -
The hossanas of the multitude can never bring satisfaction to the discerning. Yet there exist those chamaleons of popularity who find their joy, not in the sweet breath of Apollo, but in the smell of the crowd. And not in mind: Do not be taken in by what are miracles to the populace, for the ignorant do not rise above marveling. Thus the stupidity of a crowd is lost in admiration, even as the brain of an individual uncovers the trick.
-- Baltasar Gracian -
There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that. Still, enveloped in the twilight coming from the west, there she was, watering the plants with her slender, graceful hands, in the midst of a light so sweet it seemed to form a rainbow in the transparent water she poured.
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
-- Barnabe Barnes -
Our freedom is sweet. It will be sweeter when we are all free.
-- Bell Hooks -
My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.
-- Bella Thorne -
Children come running to the truth But you've got to peel the skin to get the fruit And while one's living high another's grieving But what's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening Oh - What's sweet by morning is bitter by the evening.
-- Ben Harper -
If I freely may discover What should please me in my lover, I would have her fair and witty, Savouring more of court than city; A little proud, but full of pity; Light and humorous in her toying, Oft building hopes, and soon destroying, Long, but sweet in the enjoying; Neither too easy nor to hard; All extremes I would have barr'd.
-- Ben Jonson -
That I might live alone once with my gold! O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true: A man may trust it when his father cheats him, Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf! That which makes all men false, is true itself.
-- Ben Jonson -
Sweet Swan of Avon! What a sight it were To see thee in our water yet appear.
-- Ben Jonson -
Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd. Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound.
-- Ben Jonson -
In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet.
-- Ben Jonson -
Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace Robes loosely flowing, hair as free Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.
-- Ben Jonson -
People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots. At the time of this writing, the whole world is a crime scene: People eat space with their bodies; they are rain decayers; the wind is slaughtered when they move. A retaliation is probably coming. Should a person cease to move, she would cease to kill the sky, and the world might begin to recover.
-- Ben Marcus -
Oh, dear God, thank you, you are such a good God to us. A kind and gentle and accommodating God, and we thank You oh sweet, sweet Lord of hosts for the smörgåsbord You have so aptly laid at our table this day, and each day, by day, day by day, by day oh dear Lord three things we pray to love Thee more dearly, to see Thee more clearly, to follow Thee more nearly, day, by day, by day. Amen.
-- Ben Stiller -
Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.
-- Ben Stiller -
Sweet is the voice of a sister in the season of sorrow.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet. That is the message of The Vinegar Tasters.
-- Benjamin Hoff -
It is so good, so sweet and above all, so beneficial to suffer.
-- Bernadette Soubirous -
The heart of Christ can be seen through the openings of his wounds. For what can prove to me so clearly as your wounds that you, O Lord Jesus, are sweet & mild & plenteous in mercy.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
In fact when Sweet Honey was ten years old it was too big for me to run, and I knew it, but I ran it for another thirteen years because I couldn't convince other people to really do it. And this year, I'm not running it.
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon -
I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
-- Bernice Johnson Reagon -
Don't you know sugar is brown first? White folks couldn't stand the fact that something so sweet shared the same color as the people who cut the cane, slopped the hogs and picked the cotton. So they bleached it to resemble them, and now they done gone and fooled everybody. You included.
-- Bernice L. McFadden -
Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.
-- Bertolt Brecht -
Well pleaseth me the sweet time of Easter. That maketh the leaf and the flower come out.
-- Bertran de Born -
The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.
-- Bertrice Small -
And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.
-- Bill Bruford -
Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar."
-- Bill Geist -
We have built a greenhouse, a human greenhouse, where once there bloomed a sweet and wild garden.
-- Bill McKibben -
Melancholy is kind of sweet sometimes, I think. It's not a negative thing. It's not a mean thing. It's just something that happens in life, like autumn.
-- Bill Murray -
It turns out there's only one thing that capuchins really, really love - and that's sweet stuff. If you give them a big vat of say, marshmallow fluff, and you let them go at it, what they'll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they'll vomit, and they'll come back and eat their body weight again. And they'll vomit. And they'll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.
-- Billy Graham -
Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight, and make sure that all her dreams are sweet? Said now, would ya guide her on the roads, and make them softer for her feet? Hey Lord, would ya look out for her tonight, and make sure that she's gonna be alright, until she's home and here with me.
-- Billy Joel -
It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin / He says, 'Son, can you play me a memory?/ I'm not really sure how it goes / But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete when I wore a younger man's clothes.'
-- Billy Joel -
Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.
-- Blythe Danner -
Sweet sixteen today. She's looking like her momma a little more every day.
-- Bob Carlisle -
God bless them pretty women, I wish they was mine, Their breath is as sweet, The dew on the vine.
-- Bob Dylan -
I'll always thank the Lord when my working day is through, I get my sweet reward to be alone with you.
-- Bob Dylan -
If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.
-- Bob Dylan
