#person

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person. ↗

— John Green

#unhappiness #person

What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#labels #names #personality #identity

It is the custom to look back on ourselves of the boom days with a disapproval that approaches horror...But it had its virtues, that old boom: Life was a great deal larger and gayer for most people, and the stampede to the Spartan virtues in times of war and famine shouldn't make us too dizzy to remember its hilarious glory. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#personal-quote #life

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#government #government spending #heard #himself #i

When I want to kick it up, I like to add hardwood chips or chunks to the grill; it adds bold smoky flavors. The most common woods are hickory and mesquite, but you can find alder, apple, cherry and, my personal favorite, pecan. ↗

— Emeril Lagasse

#adds #apple #bold #cherry #chips

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#i #i am #i see #nothing #option

Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact. ↗

— Ricardo Lagos

#better #clearly #country #fact #international

The experience and behavior that gets labeled schizophrenic is a special strategy that a person invents in order to live in an unlivable situation. ↗

— R. D. Laing

#experience #gets #invents #labeled #live

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash. ↗

— Kendrick Lamar

#because #break #break up #clash #creative

I was a big shiny, glittery-type person. Now I'm a jeans and T-shirt girl, or I'll wear sun dresses and cowboy boots in the summer. But at first I had to have stylists tell me, 'That's ugly.' ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#boots #cowboy #dresses #first #girl