#ada

My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me. He would tell us about Greenwich Village and show us the 'Village Voice' and describe his life, but it was all sort of subversive and below the radar. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#art #below #describe #gay #greenwich

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.' ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#before #bruise #client #difficult #face

There certainly have been a lot of changes, although they come in such gradations that most people have either forgotten, or, if they're too young, they never knew about them in the first place. ↗

— John Saxon

#although #been #certainly #changes #come

We are not imperialists. We don't even try to take over Canada. It would be easy, although it might take a rear guard action to guard Anne Murray. ↗

— Evan Sayet

#although #anne #canada #easy #even

The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study. ↗

— Philip Schaff

#affording #bible #child #class #culture

My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#child #mother #she #ukrainian

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#even #good #good writer #i #into

Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick. ↗

— Wally Schirra

#air force #airplane #canada #canadian #could

I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#america #chicago #commissioned #i #immigrant

When I first started playing football, a headache was called a 'headache.' And now it's called 'a concussion.' ↗

— Junior Seau

#first #football #headache #i #now