#sen

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves. ↗

— Philip Levine

#european #families #feel #foreign #i

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote. ↗

— Philip Levine

#get #how #intensely #into #notion

Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#baltimore #because #david #everything #following

It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#both #conversation #disagree #finding #nonsensical

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important. ↗

— Jane Levy

#crazy #developed #hollywood #i #important

When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#animosity #announcing #certain #compelling #dissent

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#bad #being #bird #cannot #decent

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#easily #finds #god #i #mortal

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#disenchanted #enchantments #gives #love #miracles

We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#cannot #costs #families #health #here