#gist

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#happens #ignorant #magistrate #obscenity #shock

I'm sure a psychologist would see something highly significant in how absent-minded I am. I mean I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to my neck by muscles, ligaments and my esophagus. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#attached #forget #head #highly #how

In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents. ↗

— John Sayles

#come #direct #get #going #logistical

In many ways, when you're young and sexy, it's very annoying to be whistled at and to have someone always trying to attract your attention, but now when it happens I find myself registering the fact almost warmly. ↗

— Greta Scacchi

#always #annoying #attention #attract #fact

Where he was, where his cells were, where his logistical channels were, how he communicated. Who his allies were. Who donated to them. I think it's fair to say the entire range of sources were brought to bear. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#bear #brought #cells #channels #communicated

I weren't an actor, I'd be a wildlife biologist or forest ranger. ↗

— Rick Schroder

#biologist #forest #i #ranger #weren

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#general #great #man #military #neither

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist. ↗

— Willard Scott

#i #meteorologist #southern #southern baptist

When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#arise #because #body #enact #execute

There are over 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country, and statistics have shown that the recidivism rate for those criminals is high. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#country #criminals #high #offenders #over