#rot

On a shelf above my computer are five letters that spell out W-R-I-T-E. Just in case I forget why I'm there. I also have 'Wonder Woman' paraphernalia from when I wrote five issues of the comic, and pictures of my husband and kids. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#also #case #comic #computer #five

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish. ↗

— Harold Pinter

#birthday #birthday party #called #critics #day

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#any #back #beginning #compliment #confronts

I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs. ↗

— Franka Potente

#annoyed #arrows #because #bedrooms #brother

In terms of the legal matter of creating a contract between two people that's called marriage, and allowing them to live together with the protection of law, it seems to me is the way we should be moving in this country. ↗

— Colin Powell

#between #called #contract #country #creating

So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#between #communication #future #get #i

I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#accompany #after #birds #down #dozen

My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#brother #did #feet #i #i remember

I was very protective of my father and I didn't like these people who hung around outside all day. They creeped me out. ↗

— Lisa Marie Presley

#around #day #father #hung #i

But I warn my colleagues that we will fail in our efforts to protect the homeland if we do not take additional steps to avoid a trade-off between protecting ourselves against terrorists attacks and preparing for and responding to natural disasters. ↗

— David E. Price

#against #attacks #avoid #between #colleagues