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I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.

Quote by Mark Oliphant about kitchen

I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.

Quote by Ted Olson about justice, wife

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

Quote by Thomas Paine about thinking, mind

People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about communication, being, people

You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.

Quote by Rafael Palmeiro about career, contentment

I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.

Quote by Arnold Palmer about games

The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are. d

Quote by Sara Paretsky about literary critic, name

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.

Quote by Evan Parker about tests, order, common sense, sense

It's not like, I don't know, if Madonna has a new record out, then everybody from Bangkok to Birmingham knows what its called and can buy it the same week. But our stuff is not in that mass market.

Quote by Evan Parker about opinion, commerce, stores

There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes.

Quote by Evan Parker about existence, interest, character, history, music

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact, if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.

Quote by Talcott Parsons

Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

Quote by Talcott Parsons about evolution, progress, god

We have a feral cat in our backyard called AC, which stands for Abandoned Cat, someone moved away and left the cat. She's very timid.

Quote by Dick Van Patten about opinion

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

Quote by Alexandra Paul about reason, power

Sometime to be called Pavarotti is not always an advantage.

Quote by Luciano Pavarotti

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

Quote by Cesare Pavese about ambition, sin, origin, common sense, sense

I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different.

Quote by Mike Pence about style, people

I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one.

Quote by Robin Wright Penn about opinion, film, things, contentment

I was technically a Valley Girl, even though I absolutely dreaded being called that. I really hated the idea that I was a Valley Girl

Quote by Robin Wright Penn about idea, being

Some years ago, I wrote a book called the Emperor's New Mind and that book was describing a point of view I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations.

Quote by Roger Penrose about books, mind