#lip

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#humanity #imagination #loneliness #poetry #solipsism

At noon, on the Fourth of July, 1826, while the Liberty Bell was again sounding its old message to the people of Philadelphia, the soul of Thomas Jefferson passed on; and a few hours later John Adams entered into rest, with the name of his old friend upon his lips. ↗

— Allen Johnson

#again #bell #entered #few #fourth

I didn't finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldn't work and I didn't have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more. ↗

— Denis Johnson

#finish #four #got #had #i

Right now, I couldn't have cared less if someone had waltzed across the room in a large flower costume with a sign saying GET YOUR BLACK TULIPS HERE. Every nerve in my body was on man-alert, screaming, "incoming! ↗

— Lauren Willig

#funny-and-random #lauren-willig #spies #spy #funny

We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting. ↗

— Jaime King

#flips #got #hong #hong kong #jump

To hear the Japanese plead for free trade is like hearing the word love on the lips of a harlot. ↗

— Lane Kirkland

#free trade #harlot #hear #hearing #japanese

I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.' ↗

— Jennifer Lawrence

#coming #day #doll #down #dress

Kiss someone like kissing is the only way you have to communicate. There is no conversation. There is no sex. There are only two sets of lips that are ravenous to be recognized and treasured. ↗

— Roberto Hogue

#how-to-kiss #kiss #kissing #lips #sex

On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%. ↗

— Cory Lidle

#behind #coin #days #flip #going

Home Alone was a lot and a lot and a lot of standing and sitting and walking and running and it was physically demanding but in this, I'm doing back flips and riding ostriches. It's physically demanding in a new way, so it's fun. ↗

— Alex D. Linz

#back #demanding #doing #flips #fun