#rule

The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to know that there is a bomb on the bus that might blow up, and then it becomes very tense - but if you don't know that there's a bomb and it just blows up, then it's just a surprise. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#blow #blows #bomb #bus #hitchcock

Existence precedes and rules essence. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#existence #precedes #rules

But I think our humour is exactly the same today. Only, we've made rules now. We've said we are not going to do prosthetic make-up scenes, because when they take it off half your face comes off. ↗

— Jennifer Saunders

#comes #exactly #face #going #half

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#disadvantage #english #great #know #language

It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world. ↗

— Philip Schaff

#christian #christian world #institution #more #rules

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#america #applies #community #golden #golden rule

The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#consideration #only #ruled #world

When it comes to determining child custody, however, sexism is the rule. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#comes #custody #determining #however #rule

I had a rule that I had to go to bed before the sun came up. So I used to look up the sunrise times because I thought it would be bad karma to be going to bed as dawn was arriving. ↗

— Eric Schmidt

#bad #because #bed #before #came

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#ever #everything #face #his #interesting