#norm

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#culture #goes #itself #norms #outside

She looks at me with wide eyes, delight and joy evident, sitting forward, “They are dreaming? You watch dreams? Movie is dream? ↗

— Poppet

#vampire-romance #dreams

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#compliment #deserved #enormous #i #jackie

Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring. ↗

— Roman Polanski

#boring #i #incredibly #interesting #love

I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job. ↗

— Nicole Polizzi

#because #build #cannot #empire #get

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

Of course, Einstein was a very great scientist indeed, and I have enormous respect for him, and great admiration for the discoveries he made. But he was very committed to a view of the objectivity of the physical world. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#committed #course #discoveries #einstein #enormous

For example, a man who might not have enormous charisma, who could be president 40 years ago, and who was a deserving president, I don't know that George Washington would be a president today, I don't know that Abe Lincoln would, I don't know that Roosevelt would. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#ago #charisma #could #deserving #enormous

You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it. ↗

— Sydney Pollack

#another #eve #normally #presentation #you

But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight. ↗

— John Pomfret

#dog #even #fight #find #hand