#nin

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

I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out. I was like 6-1, grew to 6-4 in 10th grade. ↗

— Paul Pierce

#been #bloomer #body #developed #grade

When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#angel #appetites #brain #clear #eye

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#dinner #incompetence #war

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#listening #put #should #time #want

I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#art #avenue #completely #feel #fifth

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth. ↗

— Albert Pike

#ever #ideal #journey #kind #learning

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#clauses #coherent #context #discourse #each

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#change #could #functions #human #meanings