All Quotes

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
‐‐ John Lothrop Motley

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.
‐‐ Theodor Adorno

The split between religion and science is relatively new. Isaac Newton, who first worked out the laws by which gravity held the planets and even the stars in their traces, was sufficiently impressed by the scale and regularity of the universe to ascribe it all to God.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

The split second she ceases to care is the only time a woman ceases to be attractive.
‐‐ Loretta Young

The spoiled superstar brat wouldn't get far in Oklahoma City. We're very value-conscious. Our city was settled in a land run. Those 10,000 people were desperate for a better life.
‐‐ Mick Cornett

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.
‐‐ Robert Fripp

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.
‐‐ Marshall McLuhan

The sponsorship offers have been amazing. I have to turn down a lot.
‐‐ Victoria Pendleton

The spookiest thing for me is when I think I see something, and then nothing is there. I always imagine I see something, or I'll catch movement out of the corner of my eye, but nothing is really there.
‐‐ Chris Massoglia

The spookiest thing I can remember about John Gotti is his eyes.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.
‐‐ Bonnie Blair

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.
‐‐ Robert Powell

The sport is about finding the horses. But to find another Valegro is impossible.
‐‐ Charlotte Dujardin

The sport is called artistic gymnastics. So you do have to be a little bit of an actress.
‐‐ Simone Biles

The sport needs a personality, not a fighter. We've got plenty of great fighters in the sport, but no personalities. No one is standing for anything. The last personality we had was Mike Tyson. He stood for something. It wasn't much, but he stood for something.
‐‐ George Foreman

The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes up with a new way to remember more stuff more quickly, and then the rest of the field has to play catch-up.
‐‐ Joshua Foer

The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.
‐‐ Tom Udall

The sport of shooting is my life.
‐‐ Michael Diamond

The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.
‐‐ Damon Hill

The sporting fields where Australia's greats began their careers are built and rebuilt with Commonwealth help, as are the halls and community centres where our most of our well-known stars first felt the magic of the stage.
‐‐ Anthony Albanese

The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.
‐‐ Kevin Plank

The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'You know what, I really... I don't want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.' And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.
‐‐ Brooklyn Decker

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
‐‐ Barbara Walters

The sports space is so full of opinion that you aren't hearing from the athletes just speaking for themselves. We are such a Twitter-oriented society with radio talk shows, TV talk shows and social media - what you are missing is the authentic, unfiltered aspect of who these people are.
‐‐ Hannah Storm

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
‐‐ Michael Lewis

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
‐‐ Avery Brundage

The spot paintings and spin paintings were trying to find mechanical ways to make paintings.
‐‐ Damien Hirst

The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.
‐‐ David Beckham

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
‐‐ Nikola Tesla

The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.
‐‐ Marc Andreessen

The spread of freedom is the best security for the free.
‐‐ Tony Blair

The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.
‐‐ Bill Gates

The spread of Viking bling is a good indication of the spread of its culture.
‐‐ Neil MacGregor

The Spring I seek is in a new face only.
‐‐ Allen Tate

The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against the Germans and Italians. The British argued very persuasively on the part of Winston Churchill, prime minister, that this was a very green American Army, green soldiers, green commanders.
‐‐ Rick Atkinson

The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.
‐‐ Max Muller

The spring, summer, is quite a hectic time for people in their lives, but then it comes to autumn, and to winter, and you can't but help think back to the year that was, and then hopefully looking forward to the year that is approaching.
‐‐ Enya

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
‐‐ Gary Zukav

The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tails.
‐‐ Victoria Pendleton

The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.
‐‐ Cliff Stearns

The Spy Act strikes a right balance between preserving legitimate and benign uses of this technology, while still, at the same time, protecting unwitting consumers from the harm caused when it is misused and, of course, designed for nefarious purposes.
‐‐ Cliff Stearns

The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.
‐‐ Rachel Maddow

The spy genre is something which, as a fan of movies, a movie geek myself, I just love that cinematic joy that they bring.
‐‐ Pierce Brosnan

'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.
‐‐ John le Carre

The squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of the mean distances.
‐‐ Johannes Kepler

The squeeze machine is not going to cure anybody, but it may help them relax; and a relaxed person will usually have better behavior.
‐‐ Temple Grandin

'The Squickerwonkers' was the story I wrote when I was on 'The Hobbit.' And I brought it to Comic-Con and sold out a thousand copies I had printed.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

'The Squid and the Whale' I shot in 23 days. I would have loved more time for it at the time, but in some ways that kind of kamikaze way of shooting was right for that movie.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach

The squiggly rubber Davy Jones face in 'Pirates' with the tentacles, barnacles and goobers - that's modeled on me.
‐‐ Stephen Hunter

The Squirrel Barkers always have a special place in my heart.
‐‐ Chris Hillman