#yin

It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#become #celebrate #doing #even #government

We're trying to fix this with the plan we've been floating. Now, the law says the transition ends in 2006 or - and the "or" is the only part that matters - 85 percent of Americans go buy a digital TV. ↗

— Michael K. Powell

#buy #digital #ends #fix #floating

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that. ↗

— Richard Powers

#bed #been #closest #doing #dream

If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer. ↗

— Susan Powter

#go #goddamn #higher #higher power #just

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is. ↗

— Terry Prachett

#best #devised #fruit #fundamental #i

Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#also #beauty #concerned #fashion #fashionable

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#been #chess #dice #fate #find

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I'd lay my cards down on that, and say that it's that that I'm trying to do. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#always #cards #certain #down #humane

My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#counselor #day #first #i #job

The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#clothes #good #good job #important #important thing