#ted

Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#any #architect #bottom #certainly #child

I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again. ↗

— S. J. Perelman

#again #along #always #back #dispose

This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#boring #experimental #gifted #good #involve

I couldn't make it on the swimming team in high school. In fact, I got thrown off the swimming team and was forced to audition for the school play because they had at the audition about 35 girls show up and no boys, so my swimming coach suggested that I might be able to do the drama department more good than I was doing the swimming team. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#about #audition #because #coach #department

I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health. ↗

— Anne Perry

#before #born #both #couple #england

But it wasn't until I graduated from Texas A & M University and joined the United States Air Force, flying C-130's all around the globe, that I truly appreciated the blessings of freedom. ↗

— Rick Perry

#air force #amp #appreciated #around #blessings

Anyone who considers using a weapon of mass destruction against the United States or its allies must first consider the consequences... We would not specify in advance what our response would be, but it would be both overwhelming and devastating. ↗

— William J. Perry

#against #allies #anyone #both #consequences

Never Googled myself. I use a computer for market quotes and news, but I've never Googled myself. But I have visited their headquarters. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#headquarters #i #market #myself #never

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations. ↗

— Roger Penrose

#ago #book #calculations #called #comes

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. ↗

— William Plomer

#connect #creativity #seemingly #unconnected