#linger

Jimmy Carter began his planning in the early summer of 1976, Ronald Reagan a year prior. The Clinton Administration, elected in 1992, lingered in naming its team, and as a result, took almost a year to staff its ranks. ↗

— Richard V. Allen

#almost #began #carter #clinton #clinton administration

I love old books. They tell you stories about their use. You can see where the fingerprints touched the pages as they held the book open. You can see how long they lingered on each page by the finger stains. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#book #books #each #finger #fingerprints

You see a lot of us lingering around. We'll just stand there on the edge of the pool and kinda psych ourselves up into getting in. ↗

— Natalie Coughlin

#edge #getting #into #just #kinda

I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on. ↗

— Brenda Lee

#go #i #introspection #lingered #must

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#chance #i #intention #just #lingering

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dint #duh #effect #emotions #ends

I was giving a speech one time, and the woman who introduced me said, 'Well, she used to be J. D. Salinger's girlfriend. I thought, 'God, is that all I've been?' I didn't want to be reduced to that. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#girlfriend #giving #god #i #introduced

Long after Salinger sent me away, I continued to believe his standards and expectations were the best ones. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#away #believe #best #continued #expectations

Not only did I avoid speaking of Salinger; I resisted thinking about him. I did not reread his letters to me. The experience had been too painful. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#avoid #been #did #experience #had

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#being #entitles #free #like #literary