#them

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#combination #drawn #naturally #poetry #rhyme

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

I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

#anyone #collection #different #i #interested

I have only been seeking to get them to the negotiating table and, thank God, that's where they are. ↗

— John Prescott

#get #god #i #negotiating #only

We are making the fundamental changes. It was like the decent housing target. We said by 2010, we'd have taken a million houses and refurbished them into decent housing. ↗

— John Prescott

#decent #fundamental #houses #housing #into

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#colored #doin #folks #got #i

You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else. ↗

— Priscilla Presley

#back #convincing #dating #else #father

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them. ↗

— Frank Press

#best #colleagues #different #encouraged #gave

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act. ↗

— Kelly Preston

#balance #balancing #careers #children #friends

As I say, the Animals had a particular concept of themselves as a band. There was an anarchic spirit in it, which was being flattened by commercial designs, attitudes, and needs. ↗

— Alan Price

#attitudes #band #being #commercial #concept