#over

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#discoveries #exploring #fearful #honest #intellectual

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#accept #found #government #i #knighthood

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#cover #looking #nakedness #say #speech

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#because #dead #i #ought #over

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#canvas #cover #first #go #more

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#day #discover #drawing #everything #fine

I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#better #blocks #competitors #confidence #day

By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#because #by the time #concert #died #does

Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. ↗

— William Pitt

#course #damned #disgrace #poverty

Are you really going to see Lewis? One of the few people it's worth getting excited over, I think. I know he is a good poet. I daresay he never heard of me, but I wish you would tell him that his work is the joy of my life. ↗

— Ruth Pitter

#excited #few #few people #getting #going