#apt

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity. ↗

— Hilda Solis

#children #depend #family #food #forced

I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#better #both #certain #conventions #directors

John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybody's calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#better #called #calling #christ #dignity

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector. ↗

— Terry Southern

#after #also #collector #i #started

To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#been #blessed #book #close #could

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#became #books #captain #captain america #comic

One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while. ↗

— Mark Spitz

#after #always #answer #been #clock

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured. ↗

— Howard Staunton

#enemy #may #pawn #piece #play

As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#around #captain #coming #dominant #episodes

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#both #bridge #captain #chair #chairman