"Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark." — Wallace Stevens, American poet, born 1879
"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself." — Wallace Stevens, American poet, born 1879
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." — Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author, born 1850
"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign." — Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author, born 1850
"You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else." — Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author, born 1850
"There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last." — Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author, born 1850
"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well." — Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author, born 1850
"I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella too." — James Stewart, American actor, born 1908
"Yes, reason has been a part of organized religion, ever since two nudists took dietary advice from a talking snake." — Jon Stewart, American comedian, born 1962
"One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise." — Patrick Stewart, English actor, born 1940
"When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it." — R. L. Stine, American author, born 1943
"Did you know that Halloween started because long ago people believed that one day a year at the end of the fall harvest, the spirits would return to walk the earth? On that day, people wore masks so the spirits wouldn’t recognize them." — R. L. Stine, American author, born 1943
"I think love has something to do with allowing a person you claim to love to enter a larger arena than the one you create for them." — Sting, English musician, born 1951