#ka

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#female #how #i #i came #investigator

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#early #five #hundred #kansas #miles

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard. ↗

— John Dos Passos

#ago #conviction #drunkard #even #got

They were so exhausted and seasick and all they could do was crawl up those beaches. And thousands of them lay dead in no time at all. It's unthinkable. ↗

— Barry Pepper

#could #crawl #dead #exhausted #lay

That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was. ↗

— Carl Perkins

#rockabilly #simple #sound #thought

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#bad #came #crossroads #doing #fight

If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself. ↗

— John Prescott

#even #itself #look #moved #newcastle

Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#children #could #environment #fact #genes

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#dignity #each #face #go #heart

The generosity of the American public toward the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the Tsunami has been reflected in the outpouring of support for the Pakistani earthquake victims. ↗

— Jon Porter

#american public #been #earthquake #generosity #hurricane