S Quotes
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“Stage fright is my worst problem.”
“Stage fright is very common and could be overcomed through step by step processes, but stuttering is a fright that takes time to conquer.”
“Stage fright occurs when a knowledge of the work being performed is replaced with a self-conscious awareness of the staring crowd and their expectations. Once it supersedes a performer’s confidence, it is difficult if not impossible for them to perform live again. Then the crippling flight response we’re all aware of comes into play.”
“Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.”
“Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.”
“Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake.”
“Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.”
“Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.”
“Stage Mom Mom swore she never knew what went on behind The Producer’s Green Door.”
Source: Feeling Lucky
“Stage performance is obviously a much grander sort of depiction. The audience isn't right in your face as close as a camera lens gets.”
“Stage performing is a dying art form.”
“Stage presence is not something I spend a whole lot of time thinking about. On the one hand, I do, because I have, like, favorite front-people and I know what's excited me to see in a band. But I can't be David Yow [Jesus Lizard frontman] and still play guitar.”
“Stage time, stage time, stage time.”
“Stage work, that's all I have in my background. Wasteland was my first TV experience. Dawson's was my first long-term, I mean the entire season of 22 episodes.”
“Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.”
“Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.”
“Stagecoach is really my first Western-Western, the whole horses and gunplay. It was really fun. We shot it fast, too. We got lucky with the weather. If it rained, I don't know if we would have been able to finish it. We had like 12 shooting days for the whole thing.”
“Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.”
“Stages
As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever.
Since life may summon us at every age
Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor,
Be ready bravely and without remorse
To find new light that old ties cannot give.
In all beginnings dwells a magic force
For guarding us and helping us to live.
Serenely let us move to distant places
And let no sentiments of home detain us.
The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us
But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces.
If we accept a home of our own making,
Familiar habit makes for indolence.
We must prepare for parting and leave-taking
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.
Even the hour of our death may send
Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces,
And life may summon us to newer races.
So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.”
Source: The Glass Bead Game
“Stages can be set anywhere and if they are set right, people won't even know that they are part of a play.”
“Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.”
“Staggering amount of will power is built by breaking tiniest of excuses day by day.”
“Stagnancy is a deterrent for growth. It halts you on the journey of acceptance that what has past—happened, in order to give you the necessary tools to achieve happiness on the other side.”
Source: The Last Leaf Of Autumn: Barefoot and falling, infinity is a number that has none to end
“Stagnant minds grow old fast; let learning be your daily breath of youth.”
“Stagnant water never achieves anything, it neither quenches someone's thirst nor does it help grow a plant, it only breeds disease.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“Stagnated mind is the root of all hate, war and disorder. Mind, never rigid, is the source of sense and sapience.”
Source: Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables
“Stagnated water breeds disease, when in motion it breathes life. Stagnated mind breeds segregation, when in motion it breaks divide.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“Stagnation and complacency spell doom for any semblance of personal progress.”
“Stagnation and inactivity bring spiritual death.”
“Stagnation equals death. A stagnant pond eventually becomes mud. A human being, whose biological system becomes stagnant, dies. There must be movement in the waters! The Waters of Life cannot flow in a clogged and stagnant human being.”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“Stagnation & Expansion (The Cognitive Sonnet)
There is not one but two imaginations,
One causes stagnation, another expansion.
It's okay to have a little bit of stagnation,
But stagnation as life causes degeneration.
A stagnant mind raises cognitive defenses,
To guard the stagnation against radical ideas.
An expansive mind brings down their defenses,
To expand perception by embracing new ideas.
Stagnant minds revolting against new ideas,
Are like impressionable kids throwing tantrum.
It's not their fault that they despise expansion,
Ascension takes a huge toll on minds in stagnation.
So when stagnant souls laugh at your expansion.
It is sign that you're moving in the right direction.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.”
Source: Soultsunami: Sink or Swim in New Millennium Culture
“Stagnation is our enemy; we must look forward to secure a prosperous future and drive aggressively toward our dreams.”
“Stagnation is self-abdication.”
“Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.”
Source: Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside
“Stagnation kills consciousness.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“Stahl trailed him upstairs, across a mezzanine, and out into the darkness of the sloping balcony. Tom gave the aisle his torch so his guest could see. On the screen below a woman's head was wavering, two or three times larger than life. A metallic voice clanged out, echoing sepulchrally all over the house, like a modern Delphic Oracle. 'Go back, go back!' she said. 'This is no place for you!'
Her big luminous eyes seemed to be looking right at Lew Stahl as she spoke. Her finger came out and pointed, and it seemed to aim straight at him and him alone. It was weird; he almost stopped in his tracks, then went on again. He hadn't eaten all day; he figured he must be woozy, to think things like that. ("Dusk To Dawn")”
“Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.”
Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“Stai bene attento alle mie parole, Reed: potrai anche uscire vivo da qui, ma io ti ho ucciso. Tu sei vivo, il tuo cuore batte, respiri ancora; ma sei morto. Adesso tutto questo ti sembrerà insensato, ma presto capirai cosa intendo. Buona fortuna, Darius.”
Source: Eleutheria
“Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.”
“Stain Boy Of all the super heroes, the strangest one by far, doesn't have a special power, or drive a fancy car. next to Superman and batman, I guess he must seem tame. But to me he is quite special, and Stain Boy is his name. He can't fly around tall buildings, or outrun a speeding train, the only talent he seems to have is to leave a nasty stain. Sometimes I know it bothers him, that he can't run or swim or fly, and because of this one ability, his dry cleaning bill is sky-high.”
“Stain my eyes as I may, on all sides all is black.”
“Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your deliberations, and determined in your exertions for the preservation of your liberties. Fllow not the dictates of passion, but enlist yourselves under the sacred banner of reason; use every method in your power to secure your rights.”
“Stained glass enabled the modern world.”
“Stained-glass windows glowed faintly in the moonlight streaming through, illuminating the sculpture of Christ on the cross that hung above the altar.
It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen.
Then the sculpture seemed to move, and Christ’s body twisted on the cross to look directly at him. ...Jesus, the son of God and his saviour, seemed be smiling at him.”
Source: Rapture
“Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass; give me plain glass.”
Source: Wormholes
“Stained is about a lonely bookshop keeper, and her past comes back to haunt her. I play a femme fatale, schizophrenic serial killer. They offered me the part and I was like, "I'm just curious why you thought I would be perfect for this role," and the director (Karen Lam) said, "You have this look that, when you're smiling, you're really sweet, but when you're not smiling, you look like you could kill somebody."”
“Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.”
Source: Just One Day
“Stains were a patchwork of mistakes you couldn't get rid of. They showed the world your real self, even the parts you didn't want it to see.”
Source: Say What You Will
“Stairs are the only option to reach your desire, just take a new step and keep walking till you reach where you wish to be...”