"The past is always tense, the future perfect." — Zadie Smith, English novelist, born October 25, 1975
"A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world." — Robert Smithson, American sculptor, born January 2, 1938
"It doesn't matter where you came from. What matters is who you choose to be." — The Smurfs, Fictional blue dwarves, appear for first time, October 23, 1958
"In darkness and in hedges, I sang my sour tone, and all my love was howling conspicuously alone." — W. D. Snodgrass, American poet, born 1926
"I know there's a consciousness energy that operates completely independent of the physical body you inhabit, that maintains awareness after the body's gone." — Phoebe Snow, American singer, born July 17, 1950
"I'm not a great one for chatting people up, because it's phony. I don't want people to feel at ease. You want a bit of edge. There are quite long, agonized silences. I love it. Something strange might happen. I mean, taking photographs is a very nasty thing to do. It's very cruel." — Lord Snowdon, English photographer, died January 13, 2017
"I’m very much against photographs being framed and treated with reverence and signed and sold as works of art. They aren't. They should be seen in a magazine or a book and then be used to wrap up fish and chucked away." — Lord Snowdon, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer, born March 7, 1930
"What makes you happy is seeing someone else smile because you put it there. That's what's awesome about living in this world." — Zach Sobiech, American singer, born May 3, 1995
"For a person who has spirit, everything he sees becomes a flower, and everything he imagines turns into the moon." — Iio Sogi, Japanese poet, born 1421
"Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others." — Georg Solti, Hungarian conductor, born October 21, 1912
"Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag." — Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, died August 3, 2008
"If only there were evil people somewhere, insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his heart?" — A. Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, born December 11, 1918