Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Plato
We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.
Hasso Plattner
A large fraction of the most interesting scientists have read a lot of SF at one time or another, either early enough that it may have played a part... →
Frederik Pohl
A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another.
Sidney Poitier
It takes a tremendous amount of skill to be a football player. And some of these guys have enough skills to do other sports. Soccer could be one.... →
Troy Polamalu
I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays.... →
You don't normally do another presentation of All About Eve. You do one All About Eve, and that's it.
Sydney Pollack
Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field.
Four hundred or so people lived in Knockemstiff in 1957, nearly all of them connected by blood through one godforsaken calamity or another, be it... →
Donald Ray Pollock
If the story wasn't overly long, I'd type it out. And I'd carry it around with me for a week and jot notes on it, and then I'd throw... →