"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
"I am the shore and the ocean, awaiting myself on both sides." — Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian poet, born 1959
"No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves." — Bram Stoker, Dracula, novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, published, May 26, 1897 1847
"The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of." — Bram Stoker, Irish novelist, born 1847