Quotations

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

— Britney Spears, American recording artist, born December 2, 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 December 18, 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 December 18, 1946

"Even though I get older, what I do never gets old, and that's what I think keeps me hungry."

— Steven Spielberg, American film director, born December 18, 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, died February 21, 1677

"Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand."

— Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher, died February 21, 1677

"God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things."

— Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher, born November 24, 1632

"When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50 pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93, I'm on the same plant-based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt since my heart problems began."

— Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, died March 15, 1998

"Children who grow up getting nutrition from plant foods rather than meats have a tremendous health advantage. They are less likely to develop weight problems, diabetes, high blood pressure and some forms of cancer."

— Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, born May 2, 1903

"If I could make only one wish for a child, I'd wish him the quality of lovingness."

— Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, born May 2, 1903

"I'm ready to grow young again."

— Bruce Springsteen, American singer, born September 23, 1949

"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."

— Charles Spurgeon, English pastor, born June 19, 1834

"I have woven a parachute out of everything broken."

— William Stafford, American poet, born 1914