#we

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#committee #committees #dies #flowers #grows

The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#fortified #iroquois #side #towns #were

I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn't normally do for a young photographer just starting out. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#assignments #before #bureau #europe #even

People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#any #historic #history #important #know

Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. I had always wanted to do so, yet was never allowed because of the color capabilities of our lithographers. Now that I have done it, I don't think I'll ever go back. ↗

— Maxfield Parrish

#allowing #always #back #because #capabilities

Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes! ↗

— Alan Parsons

#any #before #black #boxes #chambers

We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#did #equipment #five #get #gig

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#amuse #any #ball #billiards #cause

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#established #falsehood #know #love #obscure

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#desire #even #fame #having #read