#pi

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#crude oil #despite #development #fact #five

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds. ↗

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

#character #cultivated #happiness #like #moment

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#became #become #general #i #instead

By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#class #cuts #democrats #keeping #levels

Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. ↗

— Karl Popper

#ends #engineering #physical #piecemeal #province

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#bring #buying #happiness #horrible #interested

When I was 17 I sent a picture up to an agency, and within a week I was in The Sun five days in a row. ↗

— Katie Price

#days #five #i #picture #row

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion. ↗

— Thomas de Quincey

#deals #even #grave #laugh #long

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear. ↗

— Kevin Richardson

#ear #i #learned #piano #play

I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people. ↗

— Slick Rick

#hiphop #i #i think #people #pulpit