#ails

Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck. ↗

— Diana Lopez

#because #children #compete #down #fingernails

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#better #cocktails #cuba #given #jazz

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#directly #fails #far #grows #had

To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#cigarettes #cocktails #dressing #drinking #glamourous

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#associations #dozen #each #end #ever

Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails. ↗

— James MacArthur

#course #explain #fails #give #once

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. ↗

— James Madison

#excess #faculties #his #man #opinions

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression. ↗

— John Malkovich

#design #details #form #i #just

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#always #find #hammer #hit #i

What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#away #concert #concert hall #country #formality