#lit

You can't exactly bake a man to your specifications. Most of all, one shouldn't alienate a candidate. A hybrid of Einstein, Tarzan and Inge Meysel doesn't exist. Besides, the images of politicians in the media aren't always accurate. I've had my share of experiences in that regard. ↗

— Peer Steinbruck

#alienate #always #bake #besides #candidate

Sometimes I get a little drunk, sometimes I get a little out of it, sometimes I get out of tune onstage, but that's something that shouldn't be dissected. ↗

— Stephen Stills

#drunk #get #i #little #onstage

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#i #little #offended #pathetic #stands

He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his life does not have it and can as little enjoy it. ↗

— Max Stirner

#does #enjoy #expend #his #life

Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#believe #day #every #every day #four

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#being content #consists #content #happiness #having

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#elegant #foundation #literature #logical #once

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#only #perhaps #politics #preparation #profession

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#fellowship #made #more #perfect #quiet

When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box. ↗

— Emanuel Steward

#box #boxing #got #i #into