#sit

My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#books #end #hall #happen #nothing

I like sitting and writing with my buddies. ↗

— Adam Sandler

#i #like #sitting #writing

After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advanced course in Biochemistry, and surprised myself and my teachers by obtaining a first class examination result. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#after #biochemistry #class #course #degree

I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#because #budget film #executives #film #guess

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ↗

— George Santayana

#almost #balance #every #less #opposite

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. ↗

— George Santayana

#adversity #fire #furnace #gold #men

The current constitutional law places the president of the republic in an embarrassing situation. ↗

— Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

#current #embarrassing #law #places #president

I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#curiosity #developed #except #frequent #had

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#aspects #commercial #cultural #deny #disastrous

We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis in the Social Security system. The system is not on the verge of bankruptcy. ↗

— Paul Sarbanes

#again #bankruptcy #confronting #crisis #manufacturing