#cons

If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem. ↗

— Philip Levine

#carried #created #destroy #dominant #i

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote. ↗

— Philip Levine

#get #how #intensely #into #notion

I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another. ↗

— Jacob Lew

#constructive #debate #digging #i #into

Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#again #because #constant #control #easy

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#constantly #died #excuses #father #great

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not. ↗

— Flora Lewis

#civilized #consider #degrees #different #different ways

Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal. ↗

— Gilbert Newton Lewis

#base #before #constituent #definition #general

I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots. ↗

— Juliette Lewis

#consider #dress #effort #face #had

By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country. ↗

— Ron Lewis

#clean #conservation #country #domestic #encouraging

Revolution today is taken for granted, and in consequence becomes rather dull. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#consequence #dull #granted #rather #revolution