#out

My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#canadian #childhood #confront #corpse #like

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#cannot #chairs #comfortable #doors #enough

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity. ↗

— Frederick Leboyer

#calamity #gesture #hands #head #implore

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

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 love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#annoying #audience #din #fraud #fright

You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door. ↗

— Jim Lampley

#certainly #door #good #honest #know

You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.' ↗

— Jerry Seinfeld

#blow #cake #candle #get #getting

For the last 50 years, the federal government has taken out of the Gulf Coast $165 billion in taxes that came from oil and gas off of our coast that went to the federal Treasury, to rebuild all places in America except the place that it came from. ↗

— Mary Landrieu

#billion #came #coast #except #federal