#vent

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#difficulty #discoveries #established #great #greatest

The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#barriers #between #border #england #extension

I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't suspend disbelief. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#cgi #disbelief #effects #events #hit

I was an ambitious child and I tended to be scatterbrained. If I was at school and saw a bird outside the window I wanted to follow it. I was adventurous. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#ambitious #bird #child #follow #i

I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#back #bend #eventually #fashioned #i

The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#christian religion #ever #me #memory #my own

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent. ↗

— Stendhal

#first #historian #invent #qualification

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#again #because #being #club #desired

We are busy planning the launch of the channel. I am busy planning all kinds of events that go on the channel without me. I have started producing a sound for the channel. ↗

— Howard Stern

#busy #channel #events #go #i

I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion. ↗

— Julia Stiles

#creative #fashion #had #his #homeless