Schweppes Bitter Quotes & Sayings

She put on her lace collar. She put on her new hat and he never noticed; and he was happy without her. — Virginia Woolf

Was there a magical love-of-the-dance moment, when the muse Terpsichore called to us and we lifted our arms and spun at one with the divine music of the Universe? I think not. Although pride and obsession can feel like love, I guess. — Meg Howrey

She ordered white wine, and I ordered Schweppes tonic water without the booze. The drinks came, and I took a hit.
The first thing she said was, "I don't know how you can drink that stuff straight?"
"You mean without the liquor to kill the taste?"
"Yeah, it's so bitter."
"That's what I like about it. It's bitter like me. We match."
"You mean you're a grumpy old man?"
"Right. Can't help it. That's what happens when you get old."
"Well, I'm an optimist."
"I'm an optimist too, just a grumpy optimist. — Robert Hobkirk

Ever since he repented of religion and shaved off his clerical beard and mustache, he has had the constant feeling that he has taken off his trousers, and that his nose protrudes altogether indecently and must at all cost be covered. It's sheer torment!
With one hand over his nose, the deacon knocks again and again. No one responds. And yet Martha is home; the gate is locked from within. And that means - what? It means that she is with someone else ... The deacon punctuates the scene inwardly with the three dots we have graphically depicted just above, and, tripping over them at every second step, he proceeds to Rosa Luxemburg Street. ("X") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits? — Rebecca Solnit

Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as well as its ethical standpoint. — Hassan Rouhani

We're lucky some people are so full of goodness. — Rob Buyea

In war more than anywhere else, things do not turn out as we expect. — Carl Von Clausewitz

L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums. — Damian Lewis