Quotes about sweet
sweet blue hands
The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands from the wild irises... that the color of the sky was a shade that could never be replicated in any photograph, just as Heaven could never be seen from the confines of Earth. Alice Hoffman
sweet garden may
Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.
sweet blue evening
The evening had turned sweet and blue.
sweet stars thinking
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
sweet down-and comeback
There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
sweet father reading
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.
sweet glasses smell
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.
sweet destiny practice
Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.
sweet jobs would-be
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
sweet men wind
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
sweet men offending
I am disappointed to find myself accused in some papers of supplying the offending sweets, particularly as I am a fruit pastille man. Alastair Cook
sweet pain needs
... We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive. Albert Camus
sweet good-life reading
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
sweet opportunity years
Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity. Clay Aiken
sweet victory together
Mine would be, "We will stand together, he and I. One in victory, one in shame. Only then can I truly own the power of Halla. How sweet the moment of revelation will be, when he learns that he handed it to me." -SD the Pilgrims of Rayne D. J. MacHale
sweet thinking ends
It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends Czeslaw Milosz
sweet war home
The peasants of Sicily, who have kept their own wheat and make their own natural brown bread, ah, it is amazing how fresh and sweet and clean their loaf seems, so perfumed, as home-made bread used all to be before the war. D. H. Lawrence
sweet soul body
It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.
sweet people effort
People always ask me about my makeout scenes with him [Tyler Posey]. We joke around a lot and are like, ‘Oh, that was a sloppy one!’ But seriously, I don’t have to make an effort to have chemistry with him. He’s such a sweet guy and really loyal. Crystal Reed
sweet eye heart
Come back, true love! Sweet youth, return!— But time goes on, and will, unheeding, Though hands will reach, and eyes will yearn, And the wild days set true hearts bleeding. Conrad Aiken
sweet sky forever
O sweet clean earth, from whom the green blade cometh! When we are dead, my best beloved and I, close well above us, that we may rest forever, sending up grass and blossoms to the sky.
sweet-love heart eye
What is essential is invisible to the eye, Gene Wilder
sweet blessing joy
Christ has given us, not only the ritual of an ordinance, but the pattern for our lives, when He took the cup, and gave thanks. So common joys become sacraments, enjoyment becomes worship, and the cup which holds the bitter or the sweet skillfully mingled for our lives becomes the cup of blessing and salvation drank in remembrance of Him. Alexander MacLaren
sweet dog blow
Desmo is my guard dog, but he has a sweet side, too. Nothing entertains him (or me) more than when I blow bubbles and he can chase them. Debi Mazar
sweet dark black
But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin top layer altogether free of small black pits. And, like a watermelon, the whole thing can be covered with a plain dark rind. E. L. Konigsburg
sweet horror film
I did love horror films from the '70s and '80s. That was my sweet spot. Drew Barrymore
sweet rain firsts
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. Don DeLillo
sweet moving balls
When the ball is over the middle of the plate, the batter is hitting it with the sweet part of the bat. When it's inside, he's hitting it with the part of the bat from the handle to the trademark. When it's outside, he's hitting it with the end of the bat. You've got to keep the ball away from the sweet part of the bat. To do that, the pitcher has to move the hitter off the plate. Don Drysdale
sweet lying reading
Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets. Dylan Thomas
sweet son decay
Sweet death, small son, our instrument Of immortality, Your cries and hungers document Our bodily decay. Donald Hall
sweet nice people
It's very sweet to have people say nice things about you, and I always accept that. Don Rickles
sweet grandchildren literature
The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. Dale Carnegie
sweet chocolate too-much
I eat some fruit every day, but not too much and almost no processed food. I stay away from sweets, except 80 per cent chocolate. Cynthia Kenyon