#dl

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head. ↗

— Tony Parsons

#being #body #cheque #class #doing

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#anyway #audiences #been #collapsed #eating

I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by "unbridled" you mean unregulated. ↗

— Chris Patten

#i #mean #should #think #unbridled

I try to penetrate the lane like Steve Nash, pass like Jason Kidd, and handle the ball like Allen Iverson. Remember, I said 'try to'. ↗

— Chris Paul

#ball #handle #i #jason #lane

I never liked the name Eldred. Since nobody knew me in New York, I just changed to my middle name. ↗

— Gregory Peck

#i #just #knew #liked #me

A quality is something capable of being completely embodied. A law never can be embodied in its character as a law except by determining a habit. A quality is how something may or might have been. A law is how an endless future must continue to be. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#being #capable #character #completely #continue

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years. ↗

— Mike Pence

#been #cell #cell research #completely #country

Sometimes in the most tragic situation, something just profoundly funny happens. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#happens #just #most #profoundly #situation

the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen. ↗

— Sara Zarr

#life

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. ↗

— Walker Percy

#alive #another #dead #few #friendly