#sid

Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble. ↗

— Anthony Sampson

#egyptian #inside #liable #like #monarchy

I had never had a positive leading character - somebody that wasn't an antihero, or who wasn't more of a guy that you're supposed to be on the side of. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#guy #had #i #leading #more

Most dramatically, and perhaps least noticed, is the violence inside Saudi Arabia itself. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#dramatically #inside #itself #least #most

Any time you get into a presidential campaign and the stakes are so high, all candidates - they want to be in complete control whenever they can. And you can't blame them for that. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#blame #campaign #candidates #complete #complete control

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides. ↗

— Artur Schnabel

#art #better #between #handle #i

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn. ↗

— Olive Schreiner

#inside #outside #ridiculous #sides #solemn

Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore. ↗

— Budd Schulberg

#comfort #consideration #dignity #few #fighters

In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively. ↗

— James Schuyler

#apt #author #because #comment #consider

I want every character be an outsider in some way. ↗

— Josh Schwartz

#every #i #outsider #some #want

In 1979, I received a phone call from Ansel Adams asking me if I would be willing to consider coming to work for him. I was teaching photography in Southern California at that point. ↗

— John Sexton

#ansel #asking #california #call #coming