S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.”
“Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.”
“Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.”
“Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.”
“Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.”
“Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.”
Source: Kiss Hollywood good-by
“Show business is what I do, not what I am.”
“Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.”
“Show business pays you a lot of money, because eventually you’re gonna get screwed.”
“Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.”
“Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.”
“Show dogs and their handlers remind me of Brooke Shields and her mother: an incredibly disheveled person tethered to an impeccably groomed animal.”
“Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is that your tongue or are you swallowing a squirrel? Keep moving -”
Source: Red Dragon
“Show enough backstory to allow the reader to glean and make assumptions about what remains behind the curtain of time, yet continues to influence the character’s worldview, attitudes, decisions, and actions.”
Source: Story Engineering
“Show enough regret, and your refusal will inspire gratitude.”
“Show gratitude when you win. Be hopeful when you lose. In everything, give thanks.”
Source: Night of a Thousand Thoughts
“Show gratitude. Gratitude is a simple but powerful thing.”
“Show him every dawn & read to him endlessly.”
Source: Letters of Ted Hughes
“Show him that it’s not a weakness to love.”
Source: Bratva Connection: Maxim
“Show him your soft side too. Being too pretty and smart... Guys don't like when a woman is better than a man.”
“Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.”
Source: The House of Silk: The Bestselling Sherlock Holmes Novel
“Show how you can get
me back my childhood
Do not keep reminding
me of my past otherwise”
“Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.”
Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“Show kindness and respect to everyone. Pure intentions make the biggest difference.”
“Show kindness but never expect it. Show authenticity but never expect it. Only the wise are indifferent to things they can't control.”
“Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.”
“Show Love.
Give from your heart.
Mourn with those who suffer.
Joy with those who try and triumph.
Care more.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Show love to those who cross your path. Not because they do or do not deserve it, but because at the core of you is a heart cast and fashioned by a god of love.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Show love! Love feels good!”
“Show love, tolerance and respect to everyone.”
“Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives.”
“Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.”
“Show me a big mouth and I will show you the self-sabotaging fellow; they happen to be the same person!”
“Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.”
Source: Margaret Atwood: Conversations
“Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.”
“Show me a chief executive who’s on five boards and who lends his or her name, prestige and time to 15 community activities — and I’ll show you a company that’s underperforming. A chief executive is paid to run the company. That’s the CEO’s job.”
“Show me a church or a Christian organization that emphasizes prayer, and I'll show you a ministry where people are excited about Jesus Christ and are witnessing for Him.”
“Show me a clever nation; then I will show you a clever government!”
“Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.”
“Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.”
Source: Chapterhouse: Dune
“Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.”
“Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper.”
“Show me a country where the bombs had to fallShow me the ruins of buildings so tallAnd I'll show you a young landWith many reasons whyThere but for fortune, go you or IYou or I.”
“Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite ... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists or literary critics, the reason you will probably get there - the reason you don't plummet into a ploughed field - is that a lot of Western scientifically trained engineers have got their sum right.”
Source: A Devil's Chaplain
“Show me a culture where honesty is considered ridiculous, where nobody's ever accountable for anything, where anger gets admired as a sign of strength, and I'll show you a place where misery is permanent”
“Show me a dog who still cannot perform a task after it has been trained over and over again, and I'll tell you who the slow learner is.”
“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
“Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“Show me a filthy public restroom and I’ll show you a society where discipline and order have broken down.”
Source: The Best of This Is A Crazy Planets
“Show me a first-generatio n fortune and I'll show you a successful partnership between a talented individual and society's invisible venture capitalist, the commons.”