#nut

A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#everyone #five #gadget #immortal #lasts

I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#come #had #happened #i #i think

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#computer #every #front #function #got

The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#dog #even #first #get #had

Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. Nobody knew who I was until that happened. ↗

— Jimmy Piersall

#going #happened #i #knew #me

I can never sit still for five minutes. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#i #i can #minutes #never #sit

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. ↗

— Channing Pollock

#courage #eating #man #more #peanut

If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then it's a constant spreading out of that five minutes. ↗

— Richard Price

#constant #end #five #i #i can

I'd like to make you laugh for about ten minutes though I'm gonna be on for an hour. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#gonna #hour #i #laugh #like

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next. ↗

— James Purefoy

#dying #extreme #hospitals #maternity #minute