#try

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. ↗

— Philip Levine

#been #carried #had #her #mother

Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. ↗

— Philip Levine

#because #extraordinary #home #i #i think

The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. ↗

— Philip Levine

#best #day #every #every day #going

You should try to get what you want in life and try not to be limited. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#life #limited #should #try #want

I'm not really a storyteller myself - I tend to get all tangled up when I try and tell stories. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#i #myself #really #stories #storyteller

If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#bigger #cancer #cell #country #cure

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people. ↗

— Joe Lieberman

#american people #anger #best #country #experience

Since the trade, I was just thinking about this day and mentally preparing to not get too excited. I knew I was going to have some extra adrenalin out there so I was really doing what I needed to do just to stay calm, you know, just try not to do too much. ↗

— Cory Lidle

#adrenalin #calm #day #doing #excited

Yes, Socialists should defend their country in great historical crises. ↗

— Karl Liebknecht

#crises #defend #great #historical #should

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#boot #enough #hard #just #long