#ails

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way. ↗

— Aaron Allston

#fingernails #go #hanging #largely #luck

Most of the provisions designed to fix what ails our health system don't kick in until 2014, which, one wishes administration officials had noticed, is two years after he has to win an election. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#after #ails #designed #election #fix

Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#besides #details #find #huge #kill

When I do fall in love, I'll go to the ends of the earth for that person. I'd lay down on a carpet of nails for the person I love. ↗

— Peter Andre

#down #earth #ends #fall #go

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#answer #emails #i #letters #month

Normally I work out a general summary of what I mean to do, then start writing, and the details can be different from my anticipation. So there is considerable flow, but always within channels. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#anticipation #be different #channels #considerable #details

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be. ↗

— David Antin

#fails #left #mark #may #oral

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick. ↗

— Bruce Davison

#millions #people #sick #upon #you

As one gets older, it happens that in the morning one fails to remember the airplane trip to be taken in a few hours or the lecture scheduled for the afternoon. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#airplane #fails #few #gets #happens

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while. ↗

— Sebastian Bach

#deal #did #entails #full #get