#tan

I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#american #american culture #culture #feel #i

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#against #argument #charity #christ #crime

Improvisation is almost like the retarded cousin in the comedy world. We've been trying forever to get improvisation on TV. It's just like stand-up. It's best when it's just left alone. It doesn't translate always on TV. It's best live. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#alone #always #been #best #comedy

Right now I'm singing along to books on tape. I typically pop in something like Stephen King's 'The Stand,' and I love singing along to that kind of stuff. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#books #i #i love #kind #king

Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#assistant #besides #clean #clean up #doing

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#discoveries #generation #great #mathematical #never

One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#constant #desire #development #forgotten #had

I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#circumstance #every #i #made #me

In my case, the body of work stands for itself... I think my work has been representative of me as a man. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#body #case #i #i think #itself

My father was a poor man, very poor in a British colonial possession where class and race were very important. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#class #colonial #father #important #man