#ton

Washington's all abstraction. It's about access to power and nothing else. I mean, I'm sure it's fun if you're living next door to Seinfeld, or To Wolfe, or Mike Bloomberg, but living next door to them isn't what New York is about, In Washington people literally talk about how many feet away from John Kerry's house their own house is. The neighborhoods are all so blah, the only thing that turns people on is proximity to power. It's a total fetish culture. People get this kind of orgasmic shiver when they tell you they sat next to Paul Wolfowitz at a conference or got invited to Grover Norquist's breakfast. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#freedom #humor #washington #freedom

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet. ↗

— Erich Leinsdorf

#come #could #director #find #first

The new Germany has the unquestionable right to hold its tongue between its teeth. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#germany #hold #new #right #teeth

What will bring me home? What will make me stay, stay? Well I don't know, I don't know. ↗

— Sara Quin

#i-don-t-know #if-it-was-you #make-me-stay #not-tonight #sara-quin

I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes. ↗

— Blake Lively

#around #big #big family #both #brothers

I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department. ↗

— Kurt Loder

#department #good #here #high #high standard

I refused to beat my head against stone, of course. ↗

— Herbert Lom

#beat #course #head #i #refused

Most everything I do revolves around tae kwon do. That said, I like to be a typical girl and go shopping. I have three nieces and nephews that I like to hang out with. I'm also finishing my last semester at the University of Houston, where I'm majoring in childhood education. ↗

— Diana Lopez

#around #childhood #education #everything #finishing

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage. ↗

— Richard Lovelace

#cage #iron #make #nor #prison

In Boston serpents whistle at the cold. ↗

— Robert Lowell

#cold #serpents #whistle