#try

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

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#art #auditory #because #certain #depend

And all this effort, all this loss of comradeship, all this prostitution of idealism and manhood, to assist the capitalists of this country to defeat the proletariat! ↗

— Harry Pollitt

#capitalists #comradeship #country #defeat #effort

Good journalism, I think, represents life and if you try to organize something too neatly it usually blows up in your face and doesn't really happen the way you want it to. ↗

— John Pomfret

#face #good #happen #i #i think

I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences. ↗

— John Pomfret

#best #between #connect #differences #fact

Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced. ↗

— Paulina Porizkova

#age #attention #beautiful #begins #ceases

The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to develop the cultural, scientific, political and economic life of our country. ↗

— Jon Porter

#contributions #country #cultural #develop #economic

In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program. ↗

— Jon Postel

#class #computer #computer program #doing #front

I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country. ↗

— Pol Pot

#did #everything #i #i want you #know

I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame. ↗

— Franka Potente

#directors #i #into #lame #like