#heir

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#definite #does #exactly #exist #function

I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#entire #entire life #harder #humor #i

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#clever #geniuses #i #i do #i think

Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#always #business #class #come #getting

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#amsterdam #avoiding #being #bell #concept

When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#bad time #better #bit #design #fashion

Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#any #appointment #attempting #direct #god

I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#because #been #crap #especially #five

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind. ↗

— Matthew Prior

#faults #kind #little #their #very

I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom. ↗

— Richard Price

#angel #book #classroom #comes #descends