Quotations

"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin -- real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, or a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life."

— Alfred D. Souza, Australian inspirational writer

"There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?"

— Wole Soyinka, Nigerian poet, born 1934

"Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion."

— Wole Soyinka, Nigerian poet, born 1934

"I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling, to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift."

— Kevin Spacey, American actor, born 1959

"I have always believed that the risk takers are eventually rewarded."

— Kevin Spacey, American actor, born 1959

"The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines."

— James Spader, American actor, born 1960

"Your sanity is harder to get back than money or contacts. You are the magic. You are the art. You can't lose that."

— Esperanza Spalding, American singer, born 1984

"Small happiness is generous, if you win $12 million, you'll hide it from your friends, but if you're given a free pizza, you'll share it with everyone."

— Sparrow, American poet, born 1953

"With love, you should go ahead and take the risk of getting hurt because love is an amazing feeling."

— Britney Spears, American recording artist, born 1981

"Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty."

— Britney Spears, American recording artist, born 1981

"My psychiatrist diagnosed me a Hypochondriac. I said, Okay, can you prescribe me a placebo? Not for Type-2 Hypochondriacs, he said. Your types would just fake faking. Then we'd have a real problem."

— Brian Spellman

"I dream for a living."

— Steven Spielberg, American film director, born 1946

"My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky."

— Steven Spielberg, American film director, born 1946

"I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused."

— Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher, born 1632