#san

If all the circumstances of acting are made to easy, then there's no grain of sand to make the pearl. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#circumstances #easy #grain #grain of sand #made

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision. ↗

— George Saunders

#being #decisions #during #intention #least

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#always #explores #sense #smell #substances

After the many rumours that we had heard about Hitler and the published criticisms we had read about him, we were pleasantly impressed. His appearance was neither pretentious nor affected. ↗

— Hjalmar Schacht

#affected #after #appearance #criticisms #had

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation. ↗

— Will Smith

#average #considered #i #insane #just

There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals. ↗

— Franz Schubert

#contrary #eccentric #govern #impulses #intervals

I write a thousand words a day. ↗

— Lisa See

#i #i write #thousand #thousand words #words

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas. ↗

— Alfred E. Smith

#christmas #claus #empty #fireplace #going

Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody. ↗

— David Shuster

#been #bill #channel #comes #coverage

There may be a hundred thousand men in an army, who are all equally free; but they only are naturally most fit to be commanders or leaders, who most excel in the virtues required for the right performance of those offices. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

#commanders #equally #excel #fit #free