#pie

You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else. ↗

— Jerry Pournelle

#anything #best-seller #certain #copies #damn

Of all the characteristics needed for both a happy and morally decent life, none surpasses gratitude. Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#characteristics #decent #grateful #gratitude #happier

The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#dimensions #drink #eat #extension #form

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#each #form #holy #holy spirit #intelligent

From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it. ↗

— Reynolds Price

#artist #copies #i #interested #making

I'm never going to be a modern gal. I love colonial. I love early American. I love a big rectangular piece of brown furniture on a hardwood floor. ↗

— Emily Procter

#big #brown #colonial #early #floor

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#comes #composed #everything #founded #great

Don't get fancy. Have you cooked an apple pie? You don't know what you did wrong? Do this: Take two or three apples. Put them on a table. Study them. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#apple pie #apples #cooked #did #fancy

I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#childhood #copies #excited #films #finished

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#after #days #directing #fantasy #i