#not

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words. ↗

— Enoch Powell

#friend #get #his #i #never

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. ↗

— Richard Powers

#arrange #constraint #design #dullness #each

Many of us grew up with a kind of puritanism against shopping. But shopping can be much more than how it is cast. If you are bored or you have problems, it can be a way of lifting your spirits, by doing something light and superficial. Why not? ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#bored #cast #doing #grew #how

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ago #art #book #centuries #character

After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#accompany #after #came #creatures #decided

There's nothing you could say that would shock me. ↗

— Laura Prepon

#me #nothing #say #shock #would

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#being #hard #human #human being #image

My movements, ma'am, are all leg movements. I don't do nothing with my body. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#body #i #leg #ma #movements

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#anywhere #busy #devil #doing #good

I'm just not interested in selling out to get on the charts and make people happy. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#get #happy #i #interested #just