#imp

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#alone #always #been #best #comedy

When I had a job catering, I catered a wedding for the Smashing Pumpkins bassist in Indiana. And I served Billy Corgan shrimp off a tray. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#billy #catering #had #i #indiana

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force? ↗

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#conflicts #cure #family #force #futile

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#better #better person #every #i #morning

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#artist #experiences #great #his #impression

If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#calculus #deep #different #different parts #existing

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#career #far #get #going #logic

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#class #colonial #father #important #man

Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#impossible #nice #nice things #only #powerful

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#breadth #claims #commitment #contract #declaration