#etc

Many smart folks seem to think that if you just get your metaphors and messages right, you'll win. That if you start describing what you favor as a 'moral value' - 'affordable health care is a moral value' etc., - then you'll appeal to red-state voters. ↗

— Eric Liu

#affordable health care #appeal #care #describing #etc

There's always someone asking you to underline one piece of yourself - whether it's Black, woman, mother, dyke, teacher, etc. - because that's the piece that they need to key in to. They want to dismiss everything else. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#asking #because #black #dismiss #dyke

My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when his attention wanders from his task. ↗

— Pierre Loti

#attention #blots #books #covered #draws

People will love something very much or hate something very much. But the great thing about a sketch show is that if something comes along that you don't like, something else will come along in a minute that hopefully you might like that. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#along #come #comes #else #great

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm. ↗

— Ludacris

#always #another #deviate #every #further

Comedy is exaggerated realism. It can be stretched to the almost ludicrous, but it must always be believable. ↗

— Paul Lynde

#always #believable #comedy #exaggerated #ludicrous

Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show. ↗

— Nana Visitor

#going #i #legs #now #out

The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#afternoon #between #breakfast #clock #earlier

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me. ↗

— Charles Mackay

#happy #i #king #me #perhaps

And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no. ↗

— Josie Maran

#always #because #being #create #film