"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world." — Mary Shelley, English author, born 1797
"I beheld the wretch—the miserable monster whom I had created." — Mary Shelley, English author, born 1797
"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos." —Mary Shelley, English author, born 1797
"Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it." — Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, born 1792
"I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight." — Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet, born 1792
"Sometimes your only available mode of transportation is a leap of faith." — Margaret Shepard, American calligrapher
"In this world, love has no color—yet how deeply my body is stained by yours." — Izumi Shikibu, Japanese poet, born 976
"My eyes being hindered by blind passions, I cannot perceive the light that grasps me;Yet the great compassion, without tiring,illuminates me always." — Shinran, Japanese Buddhist monk, born 1173
"You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you." — Vandana Shiva, Indian philosopher, born 1952
"My eyes being hindered by blind passions, I cannot perceive the light that grasps me; Yet the great compassion without tiring, illuminates me always." — Shiran Shonin, founder of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism, born 1173
"A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it." — Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer, born 1906
"If they cut off both hands, I will compose music anyway holding the pen in my teeth." — Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer, born 1906
"Clark Kent grew not only out of my private life, but also out of Joe Shuster's. As a high school student, I thought that someday I might become a reporter, and I had crushes on several attractive girls who either didn't know I existed or didn't care I existed." — Jerry Siegel, American co-creator of Superman, born 1914