#other

Once upon a time there was a widow who had two daughters. The elder was so much like her, both in looks and character, that whoever saw the daughter saw the mother. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#character #daughter #daughters #elder #had

Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr. ↗

— Cassandra Peterson

#boom #character #costume #doing #eight

I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called. ↗

— Richard Petty

#called #i #king #other #rather

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. ↗

— Jane Porter

#candles #depriving #flame #imparting #knowledge

My grandmother is this amazingly theatrical woman. She acted like a movie star, as far as looks and attitude, kind of like Susan Hayward. ↗

— Parker Posey

#amazingly #as far as #attitude #far #grandmother

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer. ↗

— Jon Postel

#assistant #computer #got #graduate #graduate school

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#avarice #cruelty #fluid #founded #lends

I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#cook #cooking #day #exactly #felt

All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#any #authority #baptize #christian #churches

My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

#concert pianist #me #mother #pianist #wanted