#now

You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#good #i #know #looking #objectively

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#british #british empire #could #disappeared #empire

It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#expectation #expected #free #generally #i

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#drink #envy #everything #i #know

If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her little brother. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#after #brother #girl #her #how

When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem is: When am I going to do what I want? ↗

— Sam Levenson

#boy #father #going #i #now

I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result. ↗

— Carl Levin

#any #ask #bill #collins #could

I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody. ↗

— Adam Levine

#anybody #because #extremely #fascinated #figure

You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls. ↗

— Adam Levine

#i #know #me #much #natural

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change. ↗

— Philip Levine

#dramatic #dramatic change #hard #i #imagine