#par

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#had #imagine #life #mine #opposite

My parents were terrific - mother was a church organist and my father was probably the most respected person in our church outside of the minister and sometimes maybe that much. The neighbors all called him - a gentleman. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#church #father #gentleman #him #maybe

I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there. ↗

— Ian Thorpe

#been #better #even #fail #glad

We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going do?' You can only play so much golf. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#ask #comes #generation #going #golf

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#dropped #end #life #like #masks

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#avoid #confidence #desire #experimental #goes

As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#canal #deeper #digestive #discovery #expected

You have no choice as a professional chef: you have to repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat until it becomes part of yourself. I certainly don't cook the same way I did 40 years ago, but the technique remains. And that's what the student needs to learn: the technique. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#becomes #certainly #chef #choice #cook

Great cooking favors the prepared hands. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#favors #great #hands #prepared

A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries. ↗

— Li Peng

#developing #exist #participation #recognising #status