#era

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail. ↗

— James Longstreet

#caught #crashed #fire #hail #like

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse. ↗

— Anita Loos

#business #possible #remorse #show #show business

The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves. ↗

— George Lopez

#awful #because #bottle #calm #character

Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#any #black #circles #condemned #destructive

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#billionaire #brains #brainy #broker #cries

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. ↗

— Marie Louise

#earth #few #generations #more #need

On TV, you have wardrobe fittings, you have four cameras on you at all times, and you're worried about your angles and your lighting and your shots. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#angles #cameras #four #lighting #shots

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters. ↗

— Mia Love

#i #i think #independents #life #lot

Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average. ↗

— James Lovelock

#average #being #century #degrees #different

I would never tell anyone who to vote for. I'm a different kind of 'liberal' and I think people should be true to themselves. If you're Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, you should be true to yourself and be who you are. ↗

— Jon Lovitz

#be true #conservative #democrat #different #different kind