#sai

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it. ↗

— Vita Sackville-West

#daily #daily experience #difference #experience #much

I always said to myself that the minute I thought I'd slipped, and not be the player I wanted to be, it was time for me to go. ↗

— Joe Sakic

#go #i #i always #me #minute

I've always said to people that auteurism is nice, but it's hypothetical, and gradually you learn how much or how little influence different directors had. ↗

— Andrew Sarris

#different #directors #gradually #had #how

One congressman asked 'I just want to know if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior. The minister looked stunned, and he said 'no.' The whole table almost fell on the floor. The congressman was quite serious. That was his litmus test. ↗

— Jim Sasser

#almost #asked #christ #congressman #fell

I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'. ↗

— John Sayles

#basically #budget #ever #figured #first

If life is a punishment, one should wish for an end; if life is a test, one should wish it to be short. ↗

— Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

#life #paul-and-virginie #paul-et-virginie #pessimism #pessimistic

I saw the booster, not Sputnik, flying by, and I said, maybe this is the way we should be going, not just sitting back waiting for something to happen. ↗

— Wally Schirra

#booster #flying #going #happen #i

Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again. ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

#been #major #need #never #said

I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem? ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#guess #i #problem #said #saw

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time. ↗

— Idries Shah

#beliefs #believe #come #illustrative #in the past