#she

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#nothing #pile #stinks #unpublished #writing

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ↗

— Plato

#among #born #even #found #hero

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept. ↗

— George Plimpton

#concept #front #guest #list #masks

In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#bushel #contributing #corn #dead #erosion

A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead. ↗

— Abraham Polonsky

#celebrate #dead #finished #happened #holiday

What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#did #fishermen #hung #out #really

About six weeks later, she called because she had found a dress. And then she said yes. ↗

— Maury Povich

#because #called #dress #found #had

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this - death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#ago #art #book #centuries #character

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#i #i can #into #just #learned

When a young man complains that a young lady has no heart, it's pretty certain that she has his. ↗

— George Dennison Prentice

#complains #heart #his #lady #man