#ex

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. ↗

— Leslie Stephen

#nothing #nowadays #once #pretext #profound

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. ↗

— James Stephens

#listening #opera #sleep #way

This is the wonderful thing about espionage, nothing exists any more. ↗

— William Stephenson

#any #espionage #exists #more #nothing

I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#entertainer #i

If bin Laden is in fact publicly killed, then the US military will find itself standing around with its hands in its pockets, wondering what's supposed to come next. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#bin #come #fact #find #hands

There are things that I won't do on the radio. I mean, the next logical question is, what won't you do. I say, well, you know, you've got to find out when you're on the air. ↗

— Howard Stern

#find #got #i #know #logical

But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#case #did #expectations #first #had

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#any #asked #cottage #could #habitation

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another! ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#button #cause #life #man #shift

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#deputy #earth #god #illusions #important