#old

So I went to George and told him I had the opportunity to become the figurehead of a government safety campaign, and he agreed to give me the week off and reschedule shooting! ↗

— David Prowse

#become #campaign #figurehead #george #give

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired. ↗

— Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

#gold #greater #hunger #made #more

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#different #different ways #how #i #much

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#back #bed #been #could #first

Someone called all the newspapers in New York and told them I'd died. I've been told by almost everyone it was an ex-wife - I've had a few so it's hard to pinpoint which one - but who knows for sure? ↗

— Richard Pryor

#been #called #died #everyone #ex-wife

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#after #days #directing #fantasy #i

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man. ↗

— Pliny the Elder

#holds #hope #man #pillar #up

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! ↗

— Philip Pullman

#basic #british #education #english #entire

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#anxious #behalf #duty #old #scorn

Airport security is a particular bugbear. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old man, while I can see that averting terrorism is manifestly important, the measures taken seem, simultaneously, absurd. ↗

— James Purefoy

#airport #grumpy #i #i can #important