#wit

You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it. Being an unsuccessful actor is like having a skin disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced. ↗

— Tom Sizemore

#any #badly #being #disease #get

Today nearly every combat brigade located within the United States would report that they are not ready for duty. They are at the lowest levels of readiness. ↗

— Ike Skelton

#combat #duty #every #levels #located

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses. ↗

— Josef Skvorecky

#book #even #every #everyone #exception

With acting I am being led by the script, other actors, the director, etc. But with songwriting I feel it is much more self reliant and allows me to be in the creative experience without being as dependent on others. ↗

— Helen Slater

#allows #am #being #creative #dependent

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology. ↗

— Joe Slovo

#continue #demonstrated #even #exist #ideology

I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their stories have been told enough. ↗

— Amy Smart

#because #been #enough #film #fun

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#battle #cases #difficulties #fought #honor

Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#gift #him #hope #hopes #miracles

My role on television is one of helping people reexamine the assumptions that they hold. I regard Dr. King. You would never hear me get up and speak without in some way, shape or form, referencing, Dr. King. ↗

— Tavis Smiley

#dr #form #get #hear #helping

You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community. ↗

— Al Smith

#community #family #first #go #neighborhood