#range

I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence. ↗

— James Laughlin

#ancient #bit #blocks #break #break up

The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#day #gods #more #once #once more

We use competitive markets to arrange for delivery of our food supply. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#competitive #delivery #food #food supply #markets

Most Kikuyu marriages were arranged on the basis of what is described by anthropologists as the bride price. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#arranged #basis #bride #described #marriages

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#decided #enough #get #going #i

It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people. ↗

— Sheryl Lee

#bed #bodies #clothes #coming #each

It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#away #energy #how #know #much

Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision. ↗

— Harold Taylor

#any #arranged #cannot #educate #experiences

Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point. ↗

— Richard Linklater

#film #hollywood #own #place #point

I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#again #another #fiction #going #i