L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're no good.”
“Last time I tried to make love to my wife nothing happened, so I said to her, 'What's the matter, you can't think of anybody either?'”
“Last time I walk these roads a man of good breeding pay five man to steal me so he can show me what an ugly woman was for. Right there in Torobe. Couldn't beat him wife because she from royal blood, so he bond me for that."
"Kongori masters have always been cruel."
"Low-wit donkey, the man was not my master, he was my kidnapper. A man would know the difference."
"You could have run to a prefect."
"A man."
"A magistrate."
"A man."
"An elder with a kind ear, an inquisitor, a seer."
"Man. Man. Man.”
Source: Black Leopard, Red Wolf
“Last time I was down South, I walked into this restaurant. This white waitress came up to me and said, 'We don't serve colored people here.' I said, 'That's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.' About that time, these three cousins came in. You know the ones I mean, Ku, Klux and Klan. They said, 'Boy, we're givin' you fair warnin. Anything you do to that chicken, we're gonna do to you.'
"So I put down my knife and fork, picked up that chicken, and kissed it.”
Source: Nigger
“Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.”
Source: Nigger
“Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.”
“Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.”
“Last time I was recording, I was trying to loop on the computer, but it's really difficult because it's really different from looping on hardware.”
“Last time I was sick, the guy I was seeing brought me a bottle of ginger ale… and expected me to pay him back for it. ~Jaime Vegas”
“Last time I was sober, man I felt bad,
Worst hangover that I ever had.
It took six hamburgers, Scotch all night,
Nicotine for breakfast just to put me right.”
“Last time I went Intercity there were a couple across the aisle having sex. Of course, this being a British train, nobody said anything. Then they finished, they both lit up a cigarette and this woman stood up and said, Excuse me, I think you'll find this is a non-smoking compartment.”
“Last time, they spent eight hundred years running towards each other. This time, it only took an instant to fall into each other's embrace.”
“Last time was not good, I heard you that night... you were praying to God... about how your life is so unfair to you, I heard you and I felt you and I'm so sorry. I was not with you that time but now... I swear to my life, I'm gonna make every day of yours a joy. I never let anybody hurt you and I never let you cry... Never.”
Source: Winchester
“Last time you bring me pie, I cut into it, with my tiny pie cutter, and millions of birds flew out hitting me in the eyes and the temples... it was a trick pie!”
“Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be disappointing.”
Source: More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six
“Last to check was her namesake: a rampion or bellflower, Campanula rapunculus-- little turnip. All by itself in a beautiful Spanish clay pot with a bright blue glaze. Its blooms were pinky-purple stars, tiny but perfect and delicate.
Sometimes, if she was feeling down, Rapunzel would secretly break off a leaf and chew it, the sour/bitter taste comforting her through the worst of the drab winter months when nothing else grew.”
Source: What Once Was Mine
“Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.”
“Last Vegas is a counterfeit version of the New Jerusalem. And it shares something of the glorious reality that it mocks.”
Source: Consulting the Faithful: What Christian Intellectuals Can Learn from Popular Religion
“Last was man. One by one God judged them all; Those who were his He saved for his pleasure,
Those who were Satan’s he stomped them as they sprawled,
Tossed—t’ burn with their family together.
I was last. Alone I stood. Before God of all.
I wasn’t his. No! I still wasn't his.
It’s all I want’d! Still I lost him—still I'd fall! Still I lost. No, I’d never be his!
Angels grabbed my hands and feet and flung me with th’ damned,
To lie and let th’ fire burn and through our lungs expand.”
Source: Finibus
“Last week a former Royal Marine who is the boyfriend of the model Kelly Brooks crashed into a bus stop while driving a van carrying a load of dead badgers.
I mention this solely to remind you that linguists are not kidding when they say … that your command of English enables you to understand sentences that have never occurred before in the entire history of the human species.”
“Last week convicted Enron crook Ken Lay died of a heart attack. They announced they were going to cremate him. Where he's going, why bother?.”
“Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.”
“Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle.”
“Last week I got a flu that I caught, 'cause my daughter coughed ... into my mouth.”
“Last week I lost my temper in my karate class. Man, I'm not doing that again until I'm a black belt. Because I can tell you there's a difference between taking karate and receiving karate.”
“Last week,
I opened a drawer and found
a grocery list in your handwriting.
The word “cinnamon”
written like a secret
you meant to keep sweet.
And I stood there,
fist around the paper,
wondering how something so small
could still hurt so much.”
Source: A Shelf of Things I Never Said
“Last week I pocketed a thesaurus and looked for synonyms for you but could only find rain and more rain and a thunderstorm that sounded like glass, like crystal, like an orchestra.”
Source: The Anatomy of Being
“Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.”
“Last week I told my psychiatrist, 'I keep thinking about suicide', and he told me from now I have to pay in advance.”
“Last week I told my wife, If you would learn to cook, I could fire the chef. She said, If you could learn to make love, I could fire the chauffer.”
“Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I'm in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I'll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life.”
“Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.”
“Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles... They all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.”
“Last week, I was the golden goose and this week I’m the golden dipshit.”
Source: Tom Collins: A 'Slightly Crooked' Novel
“Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money.”
“Last week I wrote that the reason Hollywood films are so bad last 10 years is that all the better scriptwriters were hired by the Pentagon. Today in the news: Pentagon refused to cooperate with movie 'Avengers' for it found its script 'not realistic enough'.”
“Last week in the Homeland Security Committee, Republicans were against port security; and today, one week after Democrats unveiled our Real Security Agenda, they're for it”
“Last week John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. This week, he said it's the worst crisis since World War II. So he suspended his campaign, unless you count doing interviews, airing attack ads, sending out surrogates on TV to attack Obama.”
“Last week my tie caught on fire, some guy tried to put it out with an axe.”
“Last week we went to the museum. A whole whale is hanging from the ceiling. Bigger than big! OK, have you seen a Volkswagon car that's like a bug? Um huh, you know what I'm talking about. That's how big the heart of a blue whale is. I know it's not possible, but if that heart was in me, could I love more?...I would like to.”
Source: Push: A Novel
“Last week, I approved a mission over New York. I take responsibility for that decision. While federal authorities took the proper steps to notify state and local authorities in New York and New Jersey, it's clear that the mission created confusion and disruption. I apologize and take responsibility for any distress that flight caused.”
“Last week, I had to offer my publisher a bottle that was far too good for him simply because there was nothing between the insulting and the superlative.”
Source: Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris
“Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.”
“Last week, I suggested the candidates take up mushrooms. I'll be damned if Rick Perry didn't take me up on that.”
“Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.”
“Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.”
“Last week, when I went early into my garden, a rose-breasted grosbeak was sitting on the fence. Oh, he was beautiful as a flower. I hardly dared to breathe, I did not stir, and we gazed at each other fully five minutes before he concluded to move.”
Source: Letters of Celia Thaxter
“Last weekend a young man asked me how I remain so positive. “It seems all the negativity in the world doesn’t affect you,” he said. I had no more than a minute with the young man so I offered this: It’s all about where you choose to put your attention, and I choose to be happy.”
“Last winter, when so many Living joined the Dead and our prey became scarce, I watched some of my friends become full-dead. The transition was undramatic. They just slowed down, then stopped, and after a while I realised they were corpses. It disquieted me at first, but it’s against etiquette to notice when one of us dies. I distracted myself with some groaning.”
Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
“Last word in lonesome is me.”