#ours

Once I was gone for a month and I was just miserable, so I flew back from Florida for two hours just to be home and see my cats. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#cats #flew #florida #gone #home

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#advice #be yourself #give #people #some

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded. ↗

— Franklin Pierce

#confederacy #dangers #disregarded #general #government

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#criticism #get #give #learn #read

When you're stuck, and sure you've written absolutely garbage, force yourself to finish and then decide to fix or scrap it - or you will never know if you can. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#decide #finish #fix #force #garbage

I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit. ↗

— Paul Pierce

#college #course #golf #golf course #good

Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#liked #love #may #you #yourself

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

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

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#contexts #discourse #fruitful #normal #requires