Life at best is bittersweet.

Filmmaking as a process, it's bittersweet.

My love affair with painting is bittersweet.

Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.

Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.

I feel extremely lucky, extremely grateful, and a little bittersweet, too.

At my age, you not only have bittersweet memories, you make bittersweet plans.

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. Its always a little bittersweet, too.

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.

The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.

If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.

I think 'Bittersweet' is one of the best songs ever written. The idea of it just really spoke to me.

Mother's Day is a bittersweet day for many of us. We all have mothers, but some of us have lost them.

That she was irreplaceable became a bittersweet loyalty: Her death was what I had now instead of her.

With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.

Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.

Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

I love that feeling of when it's touching and it makes you happy but there's a melancholy or bittersweet glaze to it.

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now.

Leaving the space station was bittersweet - I had been there for a long time and looked forward to leaving, but it is a remarkable place.

My favorite movie is 'Dogfight' with River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. The ending is kind of bittersweet but so real and moving and complicated.

There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it.

The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.

It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling.

Sometimes what makes a great song is that bittersweet combination - a really heartfelt song, whether good or bad, mixed with something that gets you going.

As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.

Pimenton gets its intense flavor because it is dried over wood smoke. You can try hot, sweet or bittersweet, though sweet is probably the most commonly used.

The life, when we're aware of beauty, is kind of a bittersweet thing, it's a transient reminder of eternal beauty, which someday we will be face to face with.

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

I don't want to just go to the playoffs, I don't want to go to the playoffs and win the first round, second round, and not win the whole thing because it's bittersweet.

I think 'Paper Moon' is a comedy-drama. 'What's Up, Doc?' was the most severe comedy, but my favorite film of my own is 'They All Laughed,' which is a kind of bittersweet comedy.

Performing my father's songs at the Led Zeppelin O2 reunion concert in 2007 was an honor that I will forever remember as one of the most bittersweet, yet greatest nights of my life.

When you see someone putting themselves out there, particularly when you see someone is failing and failing so passionately, it brings up this bittersweet connection to our mortality.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Every reader should ask himself periodically “Toward what end, toward what end?”—but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.

I think the end of last year when we were aware of that transition was for everyone in their own way kind of bittersweet, but it's also what the show's about, one administration ends and another begins.

My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast. It was very bittersweet when we said goodbye to our relatives, and I remember crying my eyes out at the airport.

People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.

Mab Jones' poetry is suffused with a cool wit and a wisdom beyond her years. She is a superb performance poet in the tradition of Joolz Denby and Pam Ayres and, like them, her work is beautifully layered and contains bittersweet depths.

If you go back to your home town or you're reunited with school friends, its always slightly bittersweet because as much as there's nice things in terms of seeing them again, the town has changed without you, and you're no longer a part of it.

To me, when people say, 'Oh, you're a freak athlete,' it's bittersweet. It's a huge compliment to say, 'O.K., you have physical abilities that are kind of above and beyond.' But at the same time, I feel like it diminishes the mental side of the game.

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