#inking

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on. ↗

— Ruth Pitter

#because #cannot #dark #dirty #factory

Some people get in the way of change happening. Some people spend their whole careers thinking they can make a difference. Other people want to do as little as possible to get the day done. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#change #day #difference #done #get

I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time. ↗

— Frederik Pohl

#based #change #history #i #little

Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#ask #country #encouragement #hold #me

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#beings #billion #course #culture #deny

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#art #film #grow #grow up #i

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

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use. ↗

— Charley Pride

#attitude #better #could #else #how

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#drinking #himself #indulges #little #man

The mistake that people make in stand-up is thinking they're profound or they're deep when there are so many people who have more worthwhile ways of phrasing things. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#make #many #mistake #more #people