Life & People: 01/2007

Satya Sai Baba (1926-2001)

Satya Sai Baba (1926-2001)

Śri Sathya Sai Baba (born as Sathyanarayana Raju (23 November 1926 – 24 April 2011) was an Indian guru, spiritual figure, mystic, philanthropist and educator. He claimed to be the reincarnation of Sai Baba of Shirdi who was considered a spiritual saint and a miracle worker, whose teachings were an eclectic blend of Hindu and Muslim beliefs, and who died in 1918.

The materializations of vibhuti (holy ash) and other small objects such as rings, necklaces and watches by Sathya Sai Baba were a source of both fame and controversy; devotees considered them signs of divinity, while skeptics viewed them as simple conjuring tricks.

Photos of Sathya Sai Baba are displayed in millions of homes and on car dashboards. Lockets bearing his photo are worn by many as a symbol of good fortune and are often kept in wallets for spiritual protection. Sai Baba had ashrams in 126 countries and also ran a network of hospitals, clinics and schools that were often free.

Quotes·Quotations by Satya Sai Baba

Humility

¶ People say "I want peace." If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire}, you are left with peace.

Sarah Blake (Supernatural)

Sarah Blake from Supernatural season 1 episode 12 (2006)

Sarah Blake is the daughter of an art gallery owner. She helped Dean and Sam destroy the cursed painting, risking her own life in the process - although she believed that she was probably in just as much danger living a 'quiet' life. She was attracted to Sam, a feeling that was reciprocated, but because of the boys' job, they couldn't stay together.

Quotes·Quotations by Taylor Cole

Taylor Cole as Sarah Blake from Supernatural

¶ Look, I'm not saying that I'm not scared, cause I am scared as hell, but I'm not going to run and hide either. (walks towards the door) So, are we going or what? (exits) [Supernatural Season 1 episode 19]

¶ Look, I'm a big girl, Sam. And it's not your job to make decisions for me. There's always a chance of getting hurt... [Supernatural Season 1 episode 19]

¶ And tomorrow I could get hit by a bus, that's what life is! Look, I know losing somebody you love, it's terrible. You shut yourself off, believe me, I know. But when you shut out pain, you shut out everything else, too. [Supernatural Season 1 episode 19]

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Supernatural_(TV_series)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernatural_(season_1)
http://supernatural.wikia.com/wiki/Sarah_Blake

Sarah Susanka (1957- )

Sarah Susanka (1957- )

Sarah Susanka, FAIA (born March 21, 1957) is an English-born American-based architect, an author of nine best-selling books, and a public speaker. Susanka is the originator of the "Not So Big" philosophy of residential architecture, which aims to "build better, not bigger." Susanka has been credited to have initiated the small house movement.

Quotes·Quotations by Sarah Susanka

Solitude·Self-reliance

¶ The world is not out there—the world is in you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Susanka

Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for her local color works set in or near South Berwick, Maine, on the border of New Hampshire, which in her day was a declining New England seaport.

Quotes·Quotation

Attitude

¶ Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Orne_Jewett

Sara Paxton (1988- )

Sara Paxton (1988- )

Sara Paxton (born April 25, 1988) is an American actress, model and singer. She grew up in California and began acting at an early age, appearing in many minor roles in both films and television shows, before coming to wider renown in 2004, after playing the title role in the series Darcy's Wild Life and Sarah Borden in Summerland. Paxton has also starred in the films Sleepover, Aquamarine, Return to Halloweentown, Sydney White, Superhero Movie, The Last House on the Left, and Shark Night 3D.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Paxton

Sappho

Sappho

Sappho ( /ˈsæfoʊ/; Attic Greek Σαπφώ [sapːʰɔː], Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω [psapːʰɔː]) was an Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos. Later Greeks included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her life. The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired throughout antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

Quotes·Quotation

Beauty

¶ What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho

Samuel Goldwyn (1879-1974)

Samuel Goldwyn (1879-1974)

Samuel Goldwyn (c. July 1879 – January 31, 1974) was an American film producer. He was most notably well known for being the founding contributor and executive of several motion picture studios in Hollywood.

Quotes·Quotations by Samuel Goldwyn

Writing·Reading

¶ I read part of it all the way through.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Goldwyn

Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

Samuel Butler (1835–1902)

Samuel Butler (4 or 5 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works. Two of his most famous pieces are the Utopian satire Erewhon and a semi-autobiographical novel published posthumously, The Way of All Flesh. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler also made prose translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey which remain in use to this day.

Quotes·Quotation

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. [Friend·Friendship]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Butler_(novelist)

Sam Walton (1918-1992)

Sam Walton (1918-1992)

Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 5, 1992) was a businessman and entrepreneur born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma best known for founding the retailers Walmart and Sam's Club.

Quotes·Quotation

Advice

¶ Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you’re headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 populations cannot support a discount store for very long.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Walton

Sam Spade (The Maltese Falcon)

Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Quotes·Quotation by Sam Spade

Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade from The Maltese Falcon (1941)

¶ The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of.

Sally Reardon (Felicity)

Sally Reardon from Felicity

Quotes·Quotations by Sally Reardon

Janeane Garofalo as Sally Reardon from Felicity

¶ Our best decisions come from listening to ourselves.

Sally Albright (When Harry Met Sally)

Sally Albright from When Harry Met Sally (1989)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Harry_Met_Sally...

Sally Field (1946- )

Sally Field (1946- )

Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress, singer, producer, director, and screenwriter. In each decade of her career, she has been known for major roles in American TV/film culture, including: in the 1960s, for Gidget (1965–66) or Sister Bertrille on The Flying Nun (1967–70); in the 1970s, for Sybil (1976), Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and Norma Rae (1979); in the 1980s, for Absence of Malice (1981), Places in the Heart (1984) and Steel Magnolias (1989); in the 1990s, for Not Without My Daughter (1991), Mrs. Doubtfire (1993), Forrest Gump (1994) and Eye for an Eye (1996); and in the 2000s, on the TV shows ER and Brothers & Sisters (2006–11). She has also performed in numerous other roles.

Field won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a leading role on two occasions, Norma Rae (1979) and Places in the Heart (1984). Field's professional achievements also include winning three Emmy Awards: for her role in the TV film Sybil (1976); her guest-starring role on ER in 2000; and for her starring role as Nora Holden Walker on ABC's series Brothers & Sisters in 2007. She has also won two Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress. She also won the Best Female Performance Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, for Norma Rae (1979).

Quotes·Quotation by Sally Field

Sally Field as Mrs. Gump from Forrest Gump (1994)

¶ Death is just a part of life.

¶ Life is a box of chocolates, Forrest. You never know what you're gonna get.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Field

Sally Brown

Sally Brown

Sally Brown is the younger sister of Charlie Brown in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz. She was first mentioned in early 1959 and throughout a long series of strips before her first appearance in August 1959.

Quotes·Quotation by Sally Brown

Dog

¶ Today for "Show and Tell" I have brought my brother's dog. (watches as Snoopy begins to dance in front of the class) Which may turn out to be the biggest mistake of my life! (13 Sep 73)

Job

¶ (why she wants to be a nurse:) I like white shoes. (15 Jun 68)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally_Brown
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Peanuts#Sally_Brown

Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)

Sailor Moon (Sailor Moon)

Sailor Moon (セーラームーン, Sērā Mūn) is a fictional character in the Sailor Moon media franchise by Naoko Takeuchi, appearing as the main protagonist and titular character of the franchise. Her civilian name, Usagi Tsukino (月野うさぎ, Tsukino Usagi), becomes Serena Tsukino in the English-language versions. A carefree schoolgirl, she can transform herself into the de facto leader of the series' primary heroines, the Sailor Senshi.

Due to the series' widespread popularity in many countries and to her distinctive and oft-copied odango hairstyle, she has become one of the most immediately recognizable and iconic anime characters worldwide. No other character appears in all 200 episodes of the anime, and Usagi is present in all 52 acts of the manga as well as all 51 acts of the live-action series.

Serena, Usagi's given name in the English-language versions of the series, derives from the name Serenity which means moon (Helen is a related name), the name Usagi went by in her past life. In the English manga she is mostly called by the nickname Bunny, which is the literal meaning of usagi. Her boyfriend for most of the series, Mamoru Chiba, calls her by the affectionate nickname "Usako" (a diminutive, the suffix -ko meaning "child").

Quotes·Quotation by Sailor Moon

Beauty

¶ It's sad that a selfish woman like you will never know how wonderful being in love is! Your beautiful world of ice will just be a dark land of death! How could a world without life be beautiful?

Happiness

¶ I'm happiest when I'm sleeping.

Hero

¶ For Love and Justice, the pretty sailor suited soldier Sailor Moon! In the name of the moon I will punish you!

¶ I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice! On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you! [Dubbed Version]

Love

¶ Who wants that? I'd rather choose to fall in love and be hurt. Sometimes I can't even sleep because I love someone too much. And there's always sadness in our lives. It's that sad feeling that keeps is going.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Moon_(character)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sailor_Moon_characters

Sailor Mercury (Sailor Moon)

Sailor Mercury (Sailor Moon)

Ami Mizuno (水野亜美, Mizuno Ami) is a quiet, fourteen-year-old bookworm in Usagi's class. Highly intelligent with a rumored IQ of 300, she can transform into Sailor Mercury, Soldier of Water and Wisdom. Ami's shy exterior masks a passion for knowledge and for taking care of the people around her. She hopes to become a doctor one day, like her mother, and tends to be the practical one in the group. Secretly, she is also a fan of pop culture and romance novels, and becomes embarrassed whenever this is pointed out. Ami would also be considered the "tech girl" and the "brain" of the group by using her mini data computer, which is capable of scanning and detecting virtually anything she needs.

Quotes·Quotation by Sailor Mercury

Hero

¶ Agent of Love and Exams, the pretty sailor suited soldier Sailor Mercury! Douse yourself in water, and repent!

Life

¶ The future is something you build by yourself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Mercury
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sailor_Moon_charactersSailor Mercury (Sailor Moon)

Sailor Neptune (Sailor Moon)

Sailor Neptune (Sailor Moon)

Sailor Neptune (セーラーネプチューン, Sērā Nepuchūn) is a fictional lead character in the Sailor Moon media franchise. The alternate identity of Michiru Kaioh (海王みちる Kaiō Michiru?, or Michelle Kaioh in the English adaptations), a teenage Japanese schoolgirl, she belongs to the Sailor Senshi, female supernatural fighters who the franchise's main girl characters transform into to fulfill their duty of protecting the Solar System and the franchise's eponymous protagonist from evil.

Introduced in the third story arc, Sailor Neptune fights alongside her partner and lover Sailor Uranus. In both versions of the story, she is elegant, sophisticated, capable of sharp anger, occasionally cold, and fully dedicated to her duty as a Sailor Soldier. She possesses powers associated with the sea, precognitive ones, and various others granted by a mirror.

Quotes·Quotation by Sailor Neptune

Hero

¶ Maybe you misunderstood.. A world without Haruka isn't a world worth saving.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Neptune
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sailor_Moon

Sailor Venus (Sailor Moon)

Sailor Venus (Sailor Moon)

Minako Aino (愛野美奈子, Aino Minako) is a fourteen-year-old perky dreamer who acted on her own as Sailor V for some time. Called by her nickname Mina in the English versions, she has a companion cat called Artemis who works alongside Luna in guiding the Sailor Senshi. Minako transforms into Sailor Venus, Soldier of Love and Beauty, and leads Sailor Moon's four inner guardians, while acting as Sailor Moon's closest bodyguard-decoy because of their near-identical looks. She also dreams of becoming a famous singer and idol; she attends auditions whenever she can. In contrast, in the live-action series, she is a successful J-Pop singer (of whom Usagi and Ami are fans) and has a poor health condition, choosing to separate herself from the other Senshi as a result.

Quotes·Quotation by Sailor Venus

Hero

¶ Agent of Love and Beauty, the pretty sailor suited soldier Sailor Venus! In the name of Love, I will punish you!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Venus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sailor_Moon_characters

Sailor Jupiter (Sailor Moon)

Sailor Jupiter (Sailor Moon)

Makoto Kino (木野まこと, Kino Makoto) is a fourteen-year-old tomboy. Very tall and very strong for a Japanese schoolgirl, she transforms into Sailor Jupiter, Soldier of Lightning and Strength and also considered as the Soldier of Nature. Both Makoto's parents died in a plane crash years ago, so she lives alone and takes care of herself. She cultivates her physical strength as well as more domestic interests, including housekeeping, cooking, and gardening. She wants to marry young and to own a flower-and-cake shop.

Quotes·Quotation by Sailor Jupiter

Hero

¶ Agent of Love and Courage, the pretty sailor suited soldier Sailor Jupiter! In the name of Jupiter, I will punish you!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Jupiter
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sailor_Moon_characters

Sailor Mars (Sailor Moon)

Sailor Mars (Sailor Moon)

Rei Hino (火野レイ, Hino Rei) is an elegant, fourteen-year-old miko (shrine maiden). Because of her work as a Shinto priestess, Rei has limited precognition and can dispel/nullify evil using special Shinto scrolls, even in her civilian form. She transforms into Sailor Mars, Soldier of Fire and Passion. She is very serious and focused, although she can get easily annoyed by Usagi's flightiness and being totally clueless, but cares about her very much. Rei is portrayed as boy-crazy in the early anime and short-tempered throughout, but is uninterested in romance and self-controlled in both the manga and live-action series. She attends a private, Catholic school separate from the other girls.

Quotes·Quotation by Sailor Mars

Hero

¶ Agent of Love and Fire, the pretty sailor suited soldier Sailor Mars! In the name of Mars, I will chastise you!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailor_Mars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sailor_Moon_characters

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