#mer

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#cases #considered #few #i #i think

I also think if you're an actor and you can improvise, when you go on an audition and you can improvise you're just a genius. If you can, you know, take a Tide commercial and you can just say one funny line that's not in the commercial they think you're a genius. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#also #audition #commercial #funny #genius

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#bounds #completely #easy #ethical #extent

In America, it is difficult to be your own man. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#difficult #man #own #your

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#demand #discover #dreamers #good #only

The guys you see me bring home, we're only cuddling and making out like any other person would do, but we're on camera and the whole world's seeing it, and it does look like I'm having sex. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#bring #camera #does #guys #having

We can't have cellphones, TV, radio or the Internet. If the president died, we'd have no idea. There's no normalcy. It's just like prison, with cameras. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#died #idea #internet #just #like

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#crop #farmers #greedy #tell #will

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#agree #american #american politics #black #black hole

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#any #belongs #caesar #fault #finding