#late

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#always #because #calculated #carefully #controlled

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#calculated #established #good #government #happiness

How could I have known such a thing would happen? After all, we’ve been together for so long, we co-evolved so many common traits. Love of chocolate just seemed a natural companion to drooling, the pack instinct and doggy-style. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#dogs #funny #funny

Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#afraid #always #audience #heroes #like

My main calling in life is to seek and achieve spiritual balance, and to express that through my instrument. Everything else is here today, gone later today. ↗

— Steve Vai

#balance #calling #else #everything #express

I squirrel away sealed greeting cards that people give me so I can open them later when I'm having a bad day. ↗

— Emily Procter

#bad #bad day #cards #day #give

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#could #expunge #gladly #him #his

The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#bad #being #did #down #eat

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#anything #believe #i #i believe #i believe that

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#ecology #feels #i #isolated #landed