Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Green

Cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next.

John Green

I didn't know whether to trust Alaska, and I'd certainly had enough of her unpredictability - cold one day, sweet the next; irresistibly flirty one moment, resistibly obnoxious the next. I preferred the Colonel: At least when he was cranky, he had a reason.

P. J. O'Rourke

A good bachelor drinks his dessert (and sometimes the rest of his meals). A sweet tooth is a danger signal that you're getting too much exercise and not enough cocktails.

Ovid

There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

Ovid

And I will capture your minds with sweet novelty. [Lat., Dulcique animos novitate tenebo.]

Ovid

In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone.

Ovid

We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.

Ovid

Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate

Paul Newman

Sweet Bird of Youth”: “The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all differences between people is between those who have had pleasure in love and those who haven't.

Paul Newman

A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.

Masaharu Morimoto

When I'm on the road, I wake up early and walk a lot. I'm very healthy. But when I come back home, I am more tempted by guilty pleasures, such as eating too many sweets and sleeping a lot.

Mark Gatiss

Benedict is bumbly, sweet, affable; the nicest man you've met.

Marion Ross

I think in Mrs. C, I certainly played myself. A very compulsive, sweet person.

Oswald Chambers

Do you believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Are you willing to let Him?

Oswald Chambers

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

R. Kelly

Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.

Nelson Mandela

i love playing and chatting with children...feeding and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life. i like relaxing at the house, reading quietly, taking in the sweet smell that comes from the pots, sitting around a table with the family and taking out my wife and children. when you can no longer enjoy these simple pleasures something valuable is taken away from your life and you feel it in your daily work.

Nelson Mandela

Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children.

Rachel Nichols

Everything you've heard about Canadians apologizing profusely for things they shouldn't be sorry about is absolutely true. It is both sweet, endearing and worrisome at the same time. Having someone apologize for no reason actually makes me feel as though I should apologize for their need to apologize.

Nhat Hanh

When we speak, we want to say something sweet, but we don't say something sweet because something is ordering us from deep down to say something unkind. We want to open our hearts to people, but we can't do it, because we are being ordered around by the sufferings we have concealed deep in our consciousness.

Hulk Hogan

When you're with the nWo, when you're with Hollywood, you're just...too...sweet!

Humphrey Bogart

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

Hudson Taylor

Abiding in Jesus isn't fixing our attention on Christ, but it is being one with Him... A man is abiding just as much when he is sleeping for Jesus, as when he is awake and working for Jesus. Oh, it is a very sweet thing to have one's mind just resting there.

Ivan Turgenev

Significance is sweet ...

Ivan Turgenev

Ah, but in time the heat of noontide passes, and to it there succeed nightfall and dusk, with a return to the quiet fold where for the weary an the heavy-laden there waits sleep, sweet sleep.

Iris Murdoch

The talk of lovers who have just declared their love is one of life's most sweet delights. Each vies with the other in humility, in amazement at being so valued. The past is searched for the first signs and each one is in haste to declare all that he is so that no part of his being escapes the hallowing touch.

Ina Garten

If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.

Ida Lupino

My agent had told me that he was going to make me the Janet Gaynor of England—I was going to play all the sweet roles. Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.

Gregory Maguire

The sweet accident of coincidence is the best foundation on which to build.

Gregory Maguire

You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda seemed to give up. She leaned her head back on the velvet cushions of the swing and said, 'Boq, you know despite myself I think you're a little sweet. You're a little sweet and you're a little charming and you're a little maddening and you're a little habit-forming.' Boq held his breath. But you're little!' she concluded. 'You're a Munchkin, for god's sake!' He kissed her, he kissed her, he kissed her, little by little by little.

Krist Novoselic

I'm really into Sweet 75 right now, and I dig playing Nirvana, don't get me wrong. Even if Kurt never died, more than likely I'd be in Sweet 75 today still.

Krist Novoselic

We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.