#ding

I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award. ↗

— Rick Perry

#also #am #attending #award #called

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. ↗

— Thomas Perry

#chastity #could #delayed #dull #experience

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved. ↗

— Goran Persson

#alive #continue #dialogue #european #european union

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#indulge #merely #sea #standing #staring

Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board. ↗

— Bernadette Peters

#board #getting #girlfriend #great #i

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped. ↗

— Mark Tobey

#billboards #critic #decided #i #like

Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring. ↗

— Michelle Pfeiffer

#beautiful #boring #just #looking #standing

We had this budding baby band going and we hadn't reached that development we wanted to reach before we got signed to a major label. ↗

— Debbi Peterson

#band #before #budding #development #going

If you read the first page of one of my novels, I can guarantee that you will read the last one. This isn't just social commentary. This is also about writing good page-turners. I want people to keep reading. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#also #commentary #first #good #guarantee

People are always afraid of the unknown - and banding together against the Thing That Is Different From Us is a time-honoured tradition for rallying the masses. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#against #always #banding #different #masses