#sense

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

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

— Jane Levy

#crazy #developed #hollywood #i #important

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#any #created #every #might #obliterated

The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#behind #common #common sense #deal #genius

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#common #common sense #his #ideas #mental

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. ↗

— John Lithgow

#humor #infantile #senses #tend #wonderfully

We all need a past - that's where our sense of identity comes from. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#identity #need #our #past #sense

The guys in my band are great-we watch movies, we eat pizza, take walks, read books. Everybody has a really great sense of humor. And my boyfriend comes and visits me on the road. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#books #boyfriend #comes #eat #everybody

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity. ↗

— John Lone

#art #grew #i #identity #innocent