#in

It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel. ↗

— David Leavitt

#before #bumps #her #instinct #knots

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients. ↗

— David Leavitt

#cannot #close #combination #distinguish #end

This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape. ↗

— Frederick Leboyer

#escape #head #howling #mouth #rolls

The first bill that President Obama signed into law was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. I think it says something about his priorities that the first bill he put his name on has my name on it too. As he said that day with me by his side, 'Making our economy work means making sure it works for everyone.' ↗

— Lilly Ledbetter

#act #bill #day #economy #everyone

I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

#camera #holding #i #i can #subtle

What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

#expect #i #i do #love #movie

You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people. ↗

— Patrice Leconte

#going #hope #i #into #may

Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me. ↗

— Lilly Ledbetter

#alabama #decades #doing #found #hard

I wish I had a talent for dropping things as well as taking on new ones. It gets to be quite a clutter after a while. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#clutter #dropping #gets #had #i

I don't feel like I have anything to lose, so I don't really understand what I'm putting at risk. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#feel #i #like #lose #putting