Sweetbitter Quotes & Sayings

New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human. — Barry Humphries

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it. — Anne Akiko Meyers

I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one. — David Hockney

Eros once again limb-loosener whirls me sweetbitter, impossible to fight off, creature stealing up ... I don't know what I should do: two states of mind in me ... — Sappho

Such are the humiliations of the travel writer in the late 20th century: go to the ends of the earth to search for the most exotic heretics in the world, and you will find that they have cornered the kebab business at the end of your street in London. — William Dalrymple

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense. — Bruce Henderson

Being onstage is like being rock star. Whereas if you're doing a movie, it's such a confined space. You know, you do a comedy, it's so hard, too, 'cause with a comedy, there's no vocal reaction, there's no energy that you get back that spurs you on to be funnier because everyone has to be quiet. — Matthew Lillard

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? — Mary Wollstonecraft

Step 1: Decide What Capital Market You're In For the sake of clarity, I will introduce some new terminology. When you are acquiring career capital in a field, you can imagine that you are acquiring this capital in a specific type of career capital market. There are two types of these markets: winner-take-all and auction. In a winner-take-all market, there is only one type of career capital available, and lots of different people competing for it. — Cal Newport

Some people choose to go on 'American Idol' or another singing contest, and some people choose to beat down barrooms before anyone even knows who they are, in order to get a fan base, so when they do get a record deal, they have that to put in front of a label. — Jake Owen

You might not be able to operate your own Learjet and have an unlimited expense account, but if you have a reasonable expectation for a print-based product, whether it's a newspaper or a magazine, you can certainly exist. — Dave Eggers

I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive. — Robert Henri

You don't know what your voice sounds like until you speak. — Sallie Tisdale

Veiled melancholy has her sovereign shrine — Stephanie Danler

'Science in itself' is nothing, for it exists only in the human beings who are its bearers. 'Science for its own sake' usually means nothing more than science for the sake of the people who happen to be pursuing it. — Rudolf Virchow

That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the word is a great big log thrown on the fires of love. ~Page 133. — Sue Monk Kidd

Her first thought was of food. The ding meant Donny bringing her food. — Hugh Howey

Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me -
sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in — Sappho