Sweetmeat Quotes

#1. Pride is a sweetmeat, to be savoured in small pieces; it makes for a poor feast.

Laurie R. King

#2. The scents of these three, for instance, were so distinct, though they were clearly a family: the dark girl more savory and the golden-haired one more honeylike and they woman sweetest of all- I could not place what flower it was she recalled to me, or what sweetmeat.

Margo Lanagan

#3. Rimed and sparkling with sugar, the wrestler lay like some child's flaccid sweetmeat in death, and the dogs licked his eyelids.

Dorothy Dunnett

#4. The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.

Russell Smith

#5. Beyond our most stubborn misperception lies often our fondest dream.

Robert Breault

#6. Programming is usually taught by examples.

Waseem Latif

#7. I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.

Hans Christian Andersen

#8. Sometimes those silent gestures mean the most. They're the glue that holds our fragile lives together.

H.M. Ward

#9. My job apart from anything else is to build an ensemble composed of actors who all come from a secure place so that they can all work together to make the film.

Mike Leigh

#10. I have to ask, because in my experience, women will tell you to do something and then slit your fucking throat when you actually do it. Since you were supposed to know they didn't really want you to do it. That they don't really mean what they say.

Emma Chase

#11. Note to the ladies, for whom peanut butter seems to be like crack: the tablespoon scoop should be no more than a small mound, not half the jar balanced on a spoon.

Timothy Ferriss

#12. I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her.

Sophie Thompson

#13. Those who peacefully gather to express sympathy for the family of Michael Brown must have their rights respected at all times. And journalists must not be harassed or prevented from covering a story that needs to be told.

Eric Holder