#tin

As a teenager I started painting and playing guitar. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#i #painting #playing #started #teenager

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time. ↗

— George Saintsbury

#english #englishmen #exceptions #found #french

For me, the moral difficulties lie in the continual pressure brought to bear on my friends and immediate family, pressure which is not directed against me personally but which at the same time is all around me. ↗

— Andrei Sakharov

#around #bear #brought #continual #difficulties

No picture of a woman goes unretouched...even a well-known (older) woman who does not want to be retouched...we still persist in trying to make her look like she’s in her fifties. ↗

— Bob Ciano

#body-image #diet-industry #eating-disorders #fashion-industry #self-esteem

You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating. ↗

— Joe Sakic

#blows #going #good #i #ice

Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity. ↗

— Abdus Salam

#colour #determine #distinction #generosity #his

The sound was my greatest concern. There were certain difficulties getting used to the way every musician can hear his or herself, the way each of them relates to the musician in the next seat. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#concern #difficulties #each #every #getting

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#connect #even #excite #getting #handed

It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade and the only writing I did was in order to get the grade. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#by the time #did #get #got #grade

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples. ↗

— Juan Antonio Samaranch

#belief #cooperation #educational #factor #friendship