#do

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#doing #genius #lot #much #nothing

Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#doing #everyone #generally #interesting #more

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. ↗

— George Steiner

#genius #light #man #ordinary #ordinary man

It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#both sides #contract #determines #dollar #enjoyment

A beautiful woman can be painted as a totem only; not as a woman, but as a Madonna, a queen, a sphinx. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#beautiful woman #madonna #only #painted #queen

This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom. ↗

— Stendhal

#age #boredom #cure #curse #even

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #being #does

The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner? ↗

— George Stephanopoulos

#clinton #compassionate #conscious #could #his

If there's going to be an SAT, it's probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I'm sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#classes #clear #course #doing #going

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#down #get #job #keep #less