#ps

Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#alliance #appear #branches #close #different

What kind of crops do they raise in the towns? Only Grand Dukes, Bolsheviks and drunkards! ↗

— Ernest Poole

#crops #drunkards #dukes #grand #kind

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around! ↗

— Alexander Pope

#heaps #huge #littleness

When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?' ↗

— Natalie Portman

#called #dad #does #exactly #get

I think what people are looking for right now is not the kind of pizzazz and pop that perhaps we thought we got in 2008. Certainly, President Obama offered that. What they want now is someone who can work closely with Congress and get things done. ↗

— Rob Portman

#closely #congress #done #get #got

I think actors are divided into two groups: one that wants to be an actor to become famous and rich, and the other that wants to be an actor because they have to be. I'm more in the second group. ↗

— Franka Potente

#because #become #divided #famous #group

Sometimes I'm at home and I remember I'm supposed to do 100 push-ups and I don't. ↗

— Asafa Powell

#i #i remember #push-ups #remember #sometimes

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#always #great #literature #perhaps #translations

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#al gore #bear #calls #canada #cops

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. ↗

— Colin Powell

#action #attains #chief #condition #depend