#ape

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies. ↗

— Matt Stone

#commit #decision #find #i #inconsistencies

You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#discrete #facts #historian #historians #into

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

#be careful #become #careful #choose #environment

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#apart #away #diary #i #keep

One of the hardest things to believe is that anyone will abandon the effort to escape a charge of murder. It is extremely important to suspend disbelief on that. If you don't, the story is spoiled. ↗

— Rex Stout

#anyone #believe #charge #disbelief #effort

pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A minivan. O God of the Vehicular Justice, why dost thou mock me? Minivan, you albatross around my neck! You mark of Cain! You wretched beast high ceilings and few horsepower! ↗

— John Green

#complaining #funny #graduation #humor #john-green

Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration. ↗

— Madeleine Stowe

#compositions #different #eclectic #fact #gave

Fitness is a curve. You can be Lance Armstrong, or you can be really out of shape at the opposite end. People enter the curve wherever they are and then they can move up the curve, by better nutrition and better exercise. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#better #curve #end #enter #exercise

I'm afraid that this is me getting on my high horse now but we have yob television, yob newspapers, and funny enough whereas it was my mum and dad, school, police, church who used to set the standards, now it's tabloids and yob television who set the standards by which people live. ↗

— Gordon Strachan

#church #dad #enough #funny #getting

Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany. ↗

— Gustav Stresemann

#despite #england #faults #germans #germany