#rose

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#begun #chaucer #circumstances #early #exercise

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#any #best #call #classical #comparative

I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#doing #get #heterosexual #i #into

In me the tiger sniffs the rose. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#rose #tiger

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. ↗

— George Saunders

#fear #habitual #hurtful #i #i love

I think change is possible, but only for individuals who were never truly gay in the first place and who have a strong personal motivation to recover their heterosexuality. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#first #gay #heterosexuality #i #i think

In true prose everything must be underlined. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#must #prose #true

Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met. ↗

— Mike Schmidt

#ever #i #likable #met #most

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#bread #fight #give #help #her

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story. ↗