Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gloria Swanson

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

William Ames

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

Gavin Newsom

San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate

Garry Trudeau

Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.

Alex Steffen

Saying the Tech Bloom is not commercially driven is like saying Mother Teresa had an interest in the poor.

Greg Graffin

Science is the first expression of punk, because it doesn't advance without challenging authority. It doesn't make progress without tearing down what was there before and building upon the structure.

Richard Leakey

Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.

Madame de Stael

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

Arthur Koestler

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Hendrik Poinar

Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American woolly mammoths were a sideshow of no particular significance to the evolution of the species.

Sarah Parcak

Scientists use satellites to track weather, map ice sheet melting, detect diseases, show ecosystem change... the list goes on and on. I think nearly every scientific field benefits or could benefit from satellite imagery analysis.

Gail Porter

Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

Michael Mosley

'Scrubs' has always had a very loyal fan base. When it started out, it was an explosion because it was after 'Friends,' but I think there have been times where it has peaked and valleyed.

Jeff Miller

Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Security is an attempt to try to make the universe static so that we feel safe.

James Surowiecki

Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes.

Theodore Parker

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Isaac Asimov

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Jason Reitman

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

Paul Weyrich

Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.

Umberto Eco

Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

Bennie Thompson

Sending our young men and women into battle is perhaps the most serious course of action a Nation can undertake.

Shakira

Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.

Raymond Burr

Seriously - quite seriously - I firmly believe that marriage is to be enjoyed and shared.

Allen Tate

Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.

Ed Royce

Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

Roger Wicker

Several other aerospace and defense firms have announced plans to build facilities in north Mississippi in recent weeks. They join an impressive group of high-tech companies already doing business in our region.

Kim Wilde

Sex does not exist for me at all. I haven't had a boyfriend for a long time. There were only three or four in my life up until now anyway.

Christina Hendricks

Sexiness is about being an individual and having conviction about what that is.

Bai Ling

Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Kelly Brook

Sex keeps me fit and healthy. What can be better than that? It's not about crazy diets or gym workouts.

Sheryl Swoopes

Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

Carla Gugino

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

Ferdinand Mount

Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

Paul Cezanne

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.

Charlton Heston

Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.

Ken Salazar

Shale gas has provided the United States the opportunity to have 100 years of supply that is domestically produced. If we are going to develop natural gas from shale, it has to be done in a safe and responsible manner.

Albert Finney

She goes on the set with headphones and gives you notes. She's terrific and I always run to her now, because she is just great to work with, as well as very good at different accents.

Misty May-Treanor

She had a hit for every syllable: 'Don't. You. Ever. Talk. To. Me. Like. That. Ever. Again.' That was the last time I ever talked back to Mom.

G. Gordon Liddy

Once you start a war, you have to win,

Toni Tennille

Once you've established yourself with hits that become part of people's lives, then they pretty much always want to see you.

Mae West

One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

Manfred von Richthofen

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above.

Luc de Clapiers

One can not be just if one is not humane.

Guru Nanak

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

Robert Harris

One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

Jack London

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

George Sand

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

Anthony Browne

One day, I found my dad's dressing-gown in an old suitcase, and it transported me back to when I was five and thought he was a god or a superhero who could do anything. After that, I wrote my first positive book about fathers, about my dad.