All Quotes

Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
‐‐ Maj Sjowall

Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.'
‐‐ Bill Skarsgard

Sweden is an open, liberal, secular and democratic country. We strive towards achieving equality; we are forward-looking and refuse to be pulled back by social constructs such as religion.
‐‐ Bjorn Ulvaeus

Sweden is famous for many things - but not fashion.
‐‐ Stefan Persson

Sweden is still a very peaceful country to live in. I think that people in Britain have created this mythology about Sweden, that it's a perfect democratic society full of erotically charged girls.
‐‐ Henning Mankell

Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
‐‐ Carl D. Anderson

Sweden was once a very homogenous society, but no more. For decades, people have been coming into Sweden from all over the world, and that's changed the way we cook.
‐‐ Marcus Samuelsson

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.
‐‐ Lee Hazlewood

Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.
‐‐ Zara Larsson

Swedes are a really humble and shy people in many ways, but I think it's pretty much the same as in the U.S. Little girls want to take photographs with me at lunch.
‐‐ Joel Kinnaman

Swedes are such a civilised, perfect society - at least on the surface. There's a great safety net, a huge middle class, free education, free health care. People are very polite, they wait their turn. They're not too loud, they're not too quiet, but sometimes it's a little too perfect.
‐‐ Alexander Skarsgard

Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
‐‐ Camilla Lackberg

'Sweeney Todd' is my favorite Sondheim musical.
‐‐ Lesley Nicol

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
‐‐ Thomas Tusser

Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!
‐‐ Ruben Dario

Sweet, delicious Dungeness crab is always a treat.
‐‐ Tom Douglas

'Sweet Dreams' is such a dark-sounding song, but it's about not taking anything for granted; share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.
‐‐ Angel Olsen

'Sweet Genius' viewers will be on the edge of their seats as we continue to push the limits with inspirations and ingredients, while showcasing the talents of some of the best pastry chefs around. As a result, the desserts that the chefs create are truly outrageous.
‐‐ Ron Ben-Israel

Sweet is good. I'm not a fan of deep-fried things.
‐‐ Mandy Moore

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.
‐‐ Lucretius

Sweet lordie, there is nothing more fun than getting people in a room to talk about their relationships - in a setting that everyone knows is light and fun but also real.
‐‐ Liz Tuccillo

Sweet, loveable, and with every click revealing a new surprise, 'Botanicula' creates both a wonderful world where bees and twigs play in the universe and sets up a daring story of a group of unlikely heroes taking on a tree's last hope of survival.
‐‐ Rob Manuel

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
‐‐ George Herbert

Sweet things happen. They still do.
‐‐ Dianne Wiest

Sweet treats are as much a part of our culture as they are our taste palettes, and it can sometimes seem as though sugary snacks are everywhere.
‐‐ Homaro Cantu

'Sweet Valley High' is fantastic, fabulous, a little bit campy, and - dare I say it - cinematic.
‐‐ Diablo Cody

Sweet Washington cherries and Walla Walla onions are two of my favorite local treats.
‐‐ Tom Douglas

Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

Sweetheart,' 'darling,' 'luv.' I like these words; they fit me like a comfortable old pullover. I remember them from childhood; that's what innocent little boys were called by cheerful aunties back then, to make them feel welcome and secure in the world.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.
‐‐ Ralph Bakshi

'Swept Away' is one of my favorite films of my father. I've seen it about 20 times. It's a cult movie in Italy.
‐‐ Adriano Giannini

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
‐‐ Potter Stewart

Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.
‐‐ Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Swifter, higher, stronger.
‐‐ Pierre de Coubertin

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
‐‐ Sam Walton

Swimmers provide much healthier role models for teenagers than the catwalk.
‐‐ Clare Balding

Swimming a 50 m is like playing the pokies: you push a button, and you never know what is going come up; it may be a mixed bag.
‐‐ Cate Campbell

Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.
‐‐ Adam Peaty

Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.
‐‐ Clare Balding

Swimming gave me my start, but my pal Tarzan did the real work. He set me up nicely.
‐‐ Johnny Weissmuller

Swimming has been a very effective medium for telling a story about the state of our planet.
‐‐ Lewis Gordon Pugh

Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.
‐‐ Robert Baden-Powell

Swimming in the cold and the dark of British autumn is not for the faint-hearted.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

Swimming in the U.K. is not really about enjoying a sultry experience. It's about cold, clear acts of purification, and constitutional durability. It's about invigoration and bravado.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is.
‐‐ Demetri Martin

Swimming is a life-saving skill, so just the fact that the sport that I love can give so much back to other people - and inspire them to join something that they never thought they could do or go after their dreams - is something that is really special to me.
‐‐ Simone Manuel

Swimming is great because there are levels of goals. First, when I was four, it was making it to the other end and overcoming the fear of standing up in front of everybody at a swim meet because I was such a shy kid.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
‐‐ Natalie du Toit