#ow

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. ↗

— Timothy Leary

#best-educated #brain #dealing #dressed #generation

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

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

— Frederick Leboyer

#escape #head #howling #mouth #rolls

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted. ↗

— Frederick Leboyer

#closed #eyebrows #eyes #raised #these

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#always #born #born to be #i #i always

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

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#another #band #bit #chances #having

I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am. ↗

— Anna Lee

#america #been #england #i #i am

Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#eisenhower #full #his #indecision #makes

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer. ↗

— Anna Lee

#always #been #comforted #episcopalian #father