#sit

Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation. ↗

— Eric Liu

#behaved #boomers #china #comfort #early

All I know for certain is that reading is of the most intense importance to me; if I were not able to read, to revisit old favorites and experiment with names new to me, I would be starved - probably too starved to go on writing myself. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#certain #experiment #favorites #go #i

My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin. ↗

— Desmond Llewelyn

#almost #anybody #australia #back #bin

And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art. ↗

— Alan Lomax

#art #down #everything #first #give

You're at the hotel and after that you go to the venue and sit there and wait. ↗

— Dave Lombardo

#go #hotel #sit #venue #wait

Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me. ↗

— LaToya London

#came #i #me #much #personality

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance. ↗

— Harry Lorayne

#cat #concerned #curiosity #healthy #human

In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#black #charge #discussions #easily #faculty

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?' ↗

— Demi Lovato

#am #auditions #doing #home #hundreds

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another. ↗

— Seth Low

#altogether #another #brotherhood #city #dependence