#had

A lot of the cosmologists and astrophysicists clearly had been reading science fiction. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#clearly #fiction #had #lot #reading

I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#because #extraordinary #feel #had #i

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#benefited #build #development #directly #farmers

I do tend to take time off. A year and a half ago I went to film school, and before that I had taken years off at a time to be involved politically or this or that. ↗

— Sarah Polley

#before #film #film school #had #half

Sometimes we're so concerned about giving our children what we never had growing up, we neglect to give them what we did have growing up. ↗

— James C. Dobson

#children #concerned #did #give #giving

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all. ↗

— John Pople

#award #colleagues #delighted #friends #had

I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#cabbage #child #cliched #cut #destroy

They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#did #dissipation #face #gave #give

Hideki Irabu had a very good curveball. Just a straight up and down, swing-and-miss curveball. ↗

— Jorge Posada

#good #had #just #straight #up

I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs. ↗

— Franka Potente

#annoyed #arrows #because #bedrooms #brother