#met

If you read a book that's fiction and you get caught in the characters and the plot, and swept away, really, by the fiction of it - by the non-reality - you sometimes wind up changing your reality as well. Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#book #caught #changing #characters #fiction

Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#because #doing #downing #else #enjoyment

From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an extremely funny and extremely poignant moment with absolutely no separation in between... and sometimes in the same moment. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#among #between #dime #extremely #funny

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#determined #done #others #something #strong

I have no interest in anyone who wants to criticise me, or doesn't like me despite never having met me. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#criticise #despite #having #i #interest

I need to rein myself in sometimes. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#myself #need #rein #sometimes

The only way to get a three to four-month break would be to tear a tendon or a hamstring or something like that. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#get #like #only #something #tear

As a kid I collected stamps, pebbles on the beach, anything. I liked to have at least 10 of something. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#beach #collected #i #kid #least

That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#behavior #control #controls #culture #extent

Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#created #methodology #nonverbal #organized #should