#ails

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails. ↗

— F. L. Lucas

#directly #fails #far #grows #had

To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#cigarettes #cocktails #dressing #drinking #glamourous

No memory is ever alone; it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#associations #dozen #each #end #ever

Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails. ↗

— James MacArthur

#course #explain #fails #give #once

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. ↗

— James Madison

#excess #faculties #his #man #opinions

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression. ↗

— John Malkovich

#design #details #form #i #just

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable. ↗

— Benoit Mandelbrot

#always #find #hammer #hit #i

What's happened - in our country, anyhow - is that the young people have shied away from the formality of the concert hall, that tie - and - tails philharmonic image. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#away #concert #concert hall #country #formality

For me, there's a fine line between telling a story that's fictional with lots of details and then removing yourself too much from it, so it's bloodless, a little too fictional. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#bloodless #details #fictional #fine #fine line

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#i #i do #keep #particle #physics