#than

My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away. ↗

— Jacques Pepin

#away #chef #get #older #palate

Less than 1 percent of the patients treated are alive at the end of five years. ↗

— Michael Landon

#end #five #less #patients #percent

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect. ↗

— William Petty

#better #effect #feed #more #souls

That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World. ↗

— William Petty

#ever #evil #many #naturally #old

I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction. ↗

— Joan Didion

#directly #fiction #i #more #nonfiction

I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going. ↗

— Mary Pierce

#bothers #competitive #court #different #different person

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#being #better #cure #fact #fire

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. ↗

— Plato

#being #country #following #half #instead

I'm the gooney bird that walked to the bank. I'm doing better than most of those guys who said I was crazy. ↗

— Jimmy Piersall

#better #bird #crazy #doing #guys

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#another #cannot #convenient #geometry #more