#hem

When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#began #children #found #i #influenced

I just love bossy women. I could be around them all day. To me, bossy is not a pejorative term at all. It means somebody's passionate and engaged and ambitious and doesn't mind leading. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#ambitious #around #bossy #could #day

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#different #different things #giving #mathematics #name

I don't think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they are methodical does relate them. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#analogous #consciously #does #fact #fictional

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

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves. ↗

— James K. Polk

#among #congress #create #disreputable #embarrasses

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#before #billion #chemical #elements #even

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

In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that. ↗

— John Prescott

#agencies #areas #deficiencies #development #economy

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book. ↗

— John Pople

#ahead #algebra #book #class #developed