#versa

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#burnt #could #else #every #feeling

No, I was talking to the network and Universal about plans for a third season where Buck would go back to Earth and would focus on stories around the planet and show what it was like 500 years later. ↗

— Gil Gerard

#around #back #buck #earth #focus

What is reading, but silent conversation. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#reading #silent

A pacifist will often - at least nowadays - be an internationalist and vice versa. But history shows us that a pacifist need not think internationally. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#internationalist #internationally #least #need #nowadays

If Nixon is not forced to turn over tapes of his conversations with the ring of men who were conversing on their violations of the law, then liberty will soon be dead in this nation. ↗

— Earl Warren

#conversing #dead #forced #his #law

The great universal family of men is a utopia worthy of the most mediocre logic. ↗

— Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

#great #logic #mediocre #men #most

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit. ↗

— Stephen Leacock

#dislike #information #ordinary #ordinary people #people

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#conversational #exceeds #grasp #his #overachiever

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species! ↗

— Patrice Leconte

#endangered #endangered species #generation #like #married

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them. ↗

— Ang Lee

#hate #i #in the past #liked #made