#wit

We were mainly concerned about nudity - how much could be shown in 1959 and how much would convey, without being gratuitous, the terror of being attacked naked and wet. ↗

— Joseph Stefano

#attacked #being #concerned #convey #could

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. ↗

— Ben Stein

#notions #ordinary #ordinary people #out #people

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind. ↗

— Ben Stein

#gone #gone with the wind #knew #place #planet

Time is the only critic without ambition. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#critic #only #time #without

Without trying, I'm different. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#i #trying #without

We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning. ↗

— George Steiner

#bach #day #evening #go #his

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. ↗

— Frank Stella

#aim #art #compromised #create #decoration

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things. ↗

— Stendhal

#comparison #death #easy #frequent #love

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit. ↗

— Stendhal

#envy #far #far less #france #less

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#catcher #could #darn #fastball #handle