#droop

I took to wearing a black tie known as the Ascot, with long drooping ends. I had seen pictures of painters, sculptors, poets, wearing this style of tie. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#drooping #ends #had #i #known

I'm not handsome in the classical sense. The eyes droop, the mouth is crooked, the teeth aren't straight, the voice sounds like a Mafioso pallbearer, but somehow it all works. ↗

— Sylvester Stallone

#crooked #droop #eyes #handsome #i

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#balm #drooping #healing #heart #honey

I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes. ↗

— Deborah Kerr

#beautiful #corners #cow #droop #eyes

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#leans #sag #seems #us #whole

I'm black, and black don't crack. It does droop. ↗

— Aisha Tyler

#crack #does #droop #i

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#benign #better #business #droop #gracious

And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#because #better #boring #drooping #dry