#lip

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do. ↗

— Julie Harris

#because #film #i #liked #lovely

Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it. ↗

— Lou Harrison

#days #flipped #i #just #much

I suppose that one reason I have always detested religion is its sly tendency to insinuate the idea that the universe is designed with 'you' in mind or, even worse, that there is a divine plan into which one fits whether one knows it or not. This kind of modesty is too arrogant for me. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#arrogance #atheism #modesty #religion #solipsism

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#book #description #dialogue #first #flip

Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#deals #depending #done #flip #get

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