#all

Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.' ↗

— Mary Todd Lincoln

#careless #each #fall #fill #into

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#bonds #books #elements #friendship #granted

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself. ↗

— Golda Meir

#himself #jew #luxury #never #pessimism

I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over. ↗

— John Walker Lindh

#any #chooses #control #every #exaggeration

We were interested in this notion of compression- a lot of the songs were really short so that you'd absorb them in memory rather than when you're actually hearing them. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#actually #hearing #interested #lot #memory

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#classical #classical music #close #contemporary #doing

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used. ↗

— Laura Linney

#am #aware #character #clues #everything

I've only got a Saturday job so my weekdays are generally pretty free. ↗

— Gary Lineker

#generally #got #i #job #only

Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person. ↗

— Bai Ling

#basically #gift #i #me #person

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#benefit #criminals #dead #doubt #impartially