All Quotes

A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.
‐‐ David Mallet

A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing to repair it.
‐‐ Roger B. Taney

A Soviet man is a product of invisible changes, degradation and progressive deformation. Breaking the chain of those changes is hard. Perhaps they are irreversible.
‐‐ Merab Mamardashvili

A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.
‐‐ Mary Roach

A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.
‐‐ Marcelene Cox

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.
‐‐ George Lucas

A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
‐‐ Gaston Bachelard

A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.
‐‐ Kevin Nealon

A specialist is someone who does everything else worse.
‐‐ Ruggiero Ricci

A specific editor in a specific place likes the book, and you're in. A different editor on a different day goes, 'Oh, this isn't for me', or doesn't even look at it, and that's it.
‐‐ Adrian McKinty

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.
‐‐ Karl Marx

A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
‐‐ Bernard Baruch

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it's employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.
‐‐ Christopher Hitchens

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.
‐‐ Spike Lee

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.
‐‐ Joseph Lancaster

A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around in a loving way because they've already made it to God. Most people make it.
‐‐ Sylvia Browne

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

A spiritual life is 24 hours a day, seven days a week. How do you live? What's true? How do you respond? It's not about living by beliefs; it's about wanting to know.
‐‐ Linus Roache

A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
‐‐ Gary Zukav

A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.
‐‐ Gary Zukav

A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.
‐‐ Keith Miller

A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.
‐‐ David A. Bednar

A spiritual voice is urgently needed to underline the fact that global warming is already causing human anguish and mortality in our nation and abroad, and much more will occur in the future without rapid action.
‐‐ Bill McKibben

A sponge has that much absorbent capability and after a while you can pour water over it and nothing stays.
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman

A sponge is quite simple. You weigh ingredients, mix, and put it in the oven. With pastry, you manhandle it, shape it, fold it. You have to be involved with it; there is more jeopardy, more risk. But it's like making a casserole. There's a flurry of activity to begin with; then it's about leaving it to rest.
‐‐ Paul Hollywood

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.
‐‐ Lawrence Tierney

A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.
‐‐ David Steinberg

A sport has its own built-in integrity - doesn't need an artificial one.
‐‐ Chris Crutcher

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
‐‐ Stephen Leacock

A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.
‐‐ Dan Jenkins

A sprinter is never satisfied; otherwise, he is not a sprinter.
‐‐ Francois Pervis

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.
‐‐ John le Carre

A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap!
‐‐ Niall Horan

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.
‐‐ Mark Zuckerberg

A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit!
‐‐ Sarah Jessica Parker

A stable and nurturing childhood is essential for the healthy psycho-emotional and spiritual development of a human being. While we may understand what is supposed to happen to us physically, we must begin to better understand what happens to children mentally, emotionally and spiritually as a result of the families into which they are born.
‐‐ Iyanla Vanzant

A stable Iraq at peace with its neighbors will remain elusive until we improve both the security and the economic environment in Iraq.
‐‐ Tom Lantos

A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.
‐‐ David Mamet

A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
‐‐ Dirk Benedict

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
‐‐ Franz Kafka

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.
‐‐ Nathaniel Hawthorne

A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I don't know what they think.
‐‐ Stephan Pastis

A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.
‐‐ Vir Das

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.
‐‐ Phyllis Diller

A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

A standard international language should not only be simple, regular, and logical, but also rich and creative.
‐‐ Edward Sapir

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
‐‐ Hans Haacke

A standard sitcom... is a very standard idea, like these people falling in love and living with each other, and all these people living with each other. It's like, okay, we hooked them up in episode 15, how do we bust that, how do we find a new kernel in it?
‐‐ Dave Finkel

A standard 'well woman' checkup can last as little as 10 minutes, hardly time for any in-depth discussions.
‐‐ Virginia Postrel