Bittersweetness Quotes

#1. I like to let the story flesh itself out, and usually, the characters make their own decisions as things get under way. Dialogue especially seems to write itself once I'm familiar with the characters and their backgrounds.

Victoria Aveyard

#2. I want each day to last forever . . . It's a peculiar kind of dissatisfaction, a bittersweet nostalgia for a moment not yet past. Even in the midst of a pleasurable outing I'm aware of how ephemeral it is.

Christina Baker Kline

#3. Bitter, bitter was the pain, and wilder and wilder grew her song, for she sang of the Love that is perfected by Death, of the Love that dies not in the tomb.

Oscar Wilde

#4. The bittersweetness of uncertainty: To win or to lose.

Markus Zusak

#5. I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.

Mark Ruffalo

#6. Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

Edith Wharton

#7. All of us had a view from somewhere

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. Ask 'What' and 'When.' The 'How' will naturally be revealed.

Marshall Sylver

#9. The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.

John McGraw

#10. I believed we needed someone who would be able to build a team, lead and unite. I hoped that person would be Boris Johnson.

Michael Gove

#11. I need to cut and paste," she'd say to Nick.
"Next time," he'd say, "bring scissors.

Rainbow Rowell

#12. I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness.

Morris Gleitzman

#13. The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

Charlotte Rampling

#14. Listening to your own sets and listening to the audience as you perform. It's a conversation of sorts. There is an exchange.

Ted Alexandro

#15. Perhaps God had made a deal with the devil the day I was born. Freedom won't find me.

A. Giannoccaro

#16. Everything looks cute when it's small.

Cynthia Rowley

#17. The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams and reams of research and complexity.

John Hodgman

#18. My wicked little belladonna, beautiful, deadly, so tempting to keep tasting but so goddamn toxic every touch is just too much.

J.M. Darhower

#19. Mackay's Moral: If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

Harvey MacKay