#na

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#art #mother #nabokov #paint #painter

Well, I've been a professional racer for nine years. And if I could get it to pay me as much as acting, I'd give up all the rest in a second. Working in television, however, has made me accustomed to a certain lifestyle that I'd like to maintain. ↗

— Jason Priestley

#acting #been #certain #could #get

Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves. ↗

— Joseph Priestley

#like #politicians #society #teenagers #war

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. ↗

— V. S. Pritchett

#disguises #insincere #period #personalities #sincerely

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war. ↗

— Herbert V. Prochnow

#best #civilized #civilized nations #could #easily

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#change #course #drastically #meanings #minds

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement. ↗

— Samuel Prout

#arrangement #combination #consist #does #fancy

I'm a professional cook. I've worked with other cooks from all over the world, but my family is not that way - they're always lived within 25 miles of my hometown! ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#cook #cooks #family #hometown #i

I believe it is essential that we close the security gaps that put our nation at risk, and I will continue to fight for the funding that will secure high-risk targets, such as our ports and borders. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#borders #close #continue #essential #fight

Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in your equation, you can calculate all manners of things, which cannot be imagined without it. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#calculate #cannot #equation #eve #imaginary