Sweetums Character Quotes & Sayings

At a banquet given in his honour Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock once modestly attributed his success in life to the habit of "getting up earlier than the other fellow." But this was partly metaphorical, partly false and in case wholly relative for journalists are as a rule late risers. — Evelyn Waugh

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs. — Sonny Rollins

How can anybody be enlightened?
Truth is after all so poorly lit — Neil Peart

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty. — Wendell Berry

Chesterfield 1, Chester 1. Another score draw in the local derby — Des Lynam

Any place we can breathe, we can do Ninjutsu. — Masaaki Hatsumi

I am not a politician or a military strategist. I am just a citizen voicing my opinions. — Cindy Sheehan

94 was a good year to be twelve. Star Wars still had two more years as Box Office King, cartoons were still hand-drawn, and the Disney "D" still looked like a backwards "G." Words like "Columbine," "Al Qaeda" and "Y2K" were not synonymous with "terror," and 9-1-1 was an emergency number instead of a date. At twelve years old, summer still mattered. Monarch caterpillars still crawled beneath every milkweed leaf. Dandelions (or "wishes" as Mara called them) were flowers instead of pests. And divorce was still considered a tragedy. Before Mara, carnivals didn't make me sick. — Jake Vander Ark

trenchant questions she'd asked. 'Pretty? — Stav Sherez

The score is doing a lot of work. It's like Wagner. It's like a yak carrying people. — Nico Muhly

Death doesn't happen instantly. For a little while, you hover around your body, confused. What you want more than anything is to go home, to be safe, to know you're okay. But my life was over. — Caroline Flohr