L Quotes
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“Lee Harvey Oswald was boiling over about everything: the American ambassador; the Russians-he was mad at them because they wouldn't let him stay in Moscow. We talked to him for about half an hour, and my Italian friend didn't think the guy was worth filing a story about. Just another paranoid hysteric; the Moscow woods were rampant with those. I never thought about him again, not until many years later. Not until after the assassination when I saw his picture flashed on television.”
“Lee has surveillance on Fortnum’s, cameras and bugs, twenty-four seven. He put it in when I was going through my drama and never took it out. The boys at the office watch for security purposes and… um, for kicks.” I stared at her.
“You’re joking,” I breathed.”
Source: Rock Chick Rescue
“Lee Hyunsung touched my head and then opened his mouth.
“In the past, I lost an empty cartridge in the army.”
“…That must be a big problem. Did you find it again?”
“I found it.”
“You must’ve been in trouble. Why are you saying this…?”
“It was found out of the blue one month later.” Despite my confused expression, Lee Hyunsung still looked serious. “From then on, I kept the empty shell in my pocket.”
Source: 전지적 독자 시점 1 [Jeonjijeog Dogja Sijeom 1]
“Lee Iacocca, who said to Dolly Parton, Why do you need an airbag? Never got a dinner!”
“Lee Jordan was finding it difficult not to take sides. 'So — after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating —' 'Jordan!' growled Professor McGonagall. 'I mean after that open and revolting foul —' 'Jordan, I'm warning you —' 'All right, all right. Flint nearly kills the Gryffindor Seeker, which could happen to anyone, I'm sure, so a penalty to Gryffindor, taken by Spinnet, who puts it away, no trouble, and we continue play, Gryffindor still in possession.”
“Lee leaned closer to her and swore he could smell fear coming off her in waves, the way a shark smells blood in the water”
“Lee made small greetings to the others, saw the sour expression of Jubal Early, Ewell’s division commander,”
Source: The Last Full Measure
“Lee Marvin was just the best. Just the best. And that was the beginning of a friendship that lasted until he died. And the same with Ernie Borgnine. You know, I went up there and did that movie [Emperor Of The North] with those guys, and I actually was with Ernie the night that he died.”
“Lee Marvin was there at the same time, and I knew obviously it was his movie [Emperor Of The North], and Ernie Borgnine was playing the other part in the movie.I met Marvin there at wardrobe, and he said, "What are you doing for lunch?" I said, "Nothing." He said, "C'mon with me!" And he took me to the commissary. I walked into the commissary with Lee Marvin at 20th Century Fox, and he introduced me to people. He said, "This's Keith Carradine. We're doin' this movie together." He was so cool. I mean, my God.”
“Lee Morgan used to stand behind me when I was playing a ballad and he'd be hollering, "Play the pretty notes, man, play the pretty notes." I thought I was playing the pretty notes, but you know, things like that help you to reach a little further.”
“Lee on the other hand was not asexual. He might think of me as his little sister and could calmly sleep next to me without his nipples getting hard (or anything else getting hard for that matter) but I was pretty certain I could not do the same.”
Source: Rock Chick
“Lee Roy was the best college linebacker - bar none. He would have made every tackle on every play if they had stayed in bounds.”
“Lee's face changed and his eyes became warm.
"Are we together?"
Oh crap.
I started thinking fast.
"We're not not together."
"I'm not entirely certain what to do with that."
I explained, "We're not exactly together and were not not together. We're in together limbo. We're test driving together to see if we want to buy it."
"We go to your dad's late, I could convince you to buy it.”
Source: Rock Chick
“Lee’s hand shook as he filled the delicate cups. He drank his down in one gulp. “Don’t you see?” he cried. “The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.’ Don’t you see?”
“Lee saw the fireball and head through the roar in his ears Hester saying, "That's the last of 'em Lee." He said, or thought, "Those poor men didn't have to come to this, nor did we." She said, "We held 'em off. We held out. We're a-helping Lyra." Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.”
“Lee stares right at me. "You are Alena the Supermodel to the world, but with me, you are Mrs. Greene and I will take care of you and drive you to where you want to go."
I nod and slide into the backseat without a destination, holding on to my clutch bag that only contains some loose change and my phone.
Nothing seems to matter at this moment. Right now, I am more interested in who I am with more than where I am going.
"Where to, Ma'am?" Lee asks, turning on the ignition.
"I don't care. Just drive.”
Source: The Ring Does Not Fit
“Lee Strasberg told me I had talent. Real talent. It was the first time that anyone, except my father--who had to say so--told me I was good. At anything. It was a turning point in my life. I went to bed thinking about acting. I woke up thinking about acting. It was like the roof had come off my life!”
“Lee Strunk made a funny ghost sound, a kind of moaning, yet very happy, and right then, when Strunk made that high happy moaning sound, when he went Ahhooooo, right then Ted Lavender was shot in the head on his way back from peeing. He lay with his mouth open. The teeth were broken. There was a swollen black bruise under his left eye. The cheekbone was gone. Oh shit, Rat Kiley said, the guy's dead. The guy's dead, he kept saying, which seemed profound - the guy's dead. I mean really.”
Source: The Things They Carried
“Lee tells his troops. After four years of arduous service marked by unsurpassed courage and fortitude the Army of Northern Virginia has been compelled to yield to overwhelming numbers and resources.”
“Lee was pleased at how well both sides held to their pledges of keeping soldiers out of the disputed states. That did not mean no one invaded Kentucky and Missouri, however. Every politician, Northern and Southern, who could stand on a stump and put one word after another, or ten thousand after another ten, flooded into the two states to tell their people just why they should choose the United States or the Confederacy.
Listening to a pro-Confederate orator thunder abuse at the North at a torchlight rally one night in Frankfort, Charles Marshall made a sour face and said, "Anyone can tell he spent the war safely far away from the firing lines. Had he ever faced the Yankees in battle, he would own far more respect for their man hood than he currently displays."
"How right you are," Lee replied, as appalled as his aide at the oratory: the speaker had just called the Northerners cold blooded, fat-faced, nigger-loving moneygrubbers. Lee went on, "I confess to a certain amount of embarrassment at representing the same nation as does this eloquent fellow." To emphasize his distaste, he turned half away from the shouting, gesticulating man up on the platform.
"I know what you mean, sir." But Marshall, as if drawn by some horrid fascination, kept watching the orator. Red light from the torches flickered off his spectacle lenses. "Even if he wins votes, he also sows hatred.”
Source: The Guns of the South
“Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.”
Source: The subtle knife
“Lee was very much his own person so it's impossible to know quite what he would have thought but part of the reason for me staying is that I believe he always wanted this to be a house that would be here forever, that he never wanted his name not to mean anything any more. And I want that too. I want Alexander McQueen to continue. Then, in a hundred years time, there will still be this house that he created, this great place that represents modernity and creativity and beauty and romance and all of those things. That, I think, would be amazing.”
“Lee y conducirás, no leas y serás conducido.”
“Lee's army will be your objective point. Wherever Lee goes, there you will go also.”
Source: Ulysses S. Grant: Memoirs & Selected Letters: Library of America #50
“Lee's great gifts are teaching and inspirational guidance, not administration and management.”
Source: One naked individual: my fifty years in the theatre
“Leeches live by guns, legends live by ideas.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.”
“Leeda knew friends never turned out to be what you expected. They came and went in waves, pulling away and coming back, leaving you feeling safe one minute and lost the next.”
Source: Peaches
“Leeda looked straight out of Martha’s Vineyard---all perfect cheekbones and alabaster skin with a smattering of sun-induced freckles and clothes that were totally season-appropriate. Even loose and sloppy like she was today, she looked like the kind of loose and sloppy you saw in People magazine when they caught a celebrity all tired and mussed up at the airport. Birdie, on the other hand, was curved and rosy and Renoir soft. She looked like the milk-fed farm girl that she was.
The two were second cousins but nothing alike. Leeda was straight up and down, and Birdie was as gentle and easy as the rain. Leeda had grown up wearing mostly white and exceeding everyone as the glossiest, the smilingest, and the most southern of the southern belles in Bridgewater. Birdie had grown up with dirt under her fingernails, homeschooled on the orchard, her feet planted in the earth.
Before Judge Miller Abbott sentenced Murphy to time on the orchard picking peaches that summer, Murphy had pegged Leeda for uptight and Birdie for weak. But their time together---picking peaches, sweating in the dorms at night, cooling off in the lake---had been like living the fable of her life. The lesson being that when you think you know more than you do, you end up looking like an idiot.”
Source: The Secrets of Peaches
“Leeds are enjoying more possession now that they have the ball.”
“Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.”
“Leeds is quite laid-back.”
“Leeds United had won but I didn’t care. I had lost.”
Source: Nineteen Seventy-Four
“Leef hard en goed en schoon en wild. Kijk goed, voel beter. Wees niet bang. Kies voor wat u blij maakt, wat het ook moge zijn. Durf proberen wat te lastig lijkt. Leg de lat hoog genoeg. Koester en laat u koesteren. Geef anderen wat ze verdienen, en uzelf minstens ook. Blijf hopen, willen, dromen, wensen.”
Source: Vele hemels boven de zevende
“Leeftijd is een kwestie van fysiologie en psychologie en heeft niets te maken met de kalender”
“Leela's happiest childhood memories were of aloneness: reading in her room with the door closed, playing chess on the computer, embarking on long bike rides through the city, going to the movies by herself. You saw more that way, she explained to her parents. You didn't miss crucial bits of dialogue because your companion was busy making inane remarks. Her parents, themselves solitary individuals, didn't object. People– except for a selected handful– were noisy and messy. They knew that.”
Source: The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
“Leemos, aprendemos, experimentamos, corregimos. Y un día llegamos a un mundo en el que se han fijado todas las distancias necesarias, y establecido todos los sistemas. Es entonces cuando el tiempo empieza a correr más deprisa.”
“Leena and Kelly Davidson have always lived a comfortable life. Neither girl has ever held a job nor did they intend to get one. All they wanted was to live off their parents’ money for their rest of their lives. What could be better than that?”
Source: Cami's Decision
“Leer buenos libros te impide disfrutar de los malos.”
Source: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
“Leer da sueños.”
“Leer era una defensa, un escudo con el que armar de recursos su timidez para relacionarse. Pero escribir era infinitamente más que eso. Escribir era el palacio interior, los sitios secretos, los lugares más bellos formando parte de un conjunto de ilimitadas estancias que él recorría, riendo, corriendo descalzo, deteniéndose a acariciar la belleza de los tesoros que allí albergaba.”
Source: Todo esto te daré
“Leer es mirarse para adentro.”
“Leer es pensar con la cabeza de otro en lugar de con la propia.”
Source: El arte de pensar
“Leer es siempre un traslado, un viaje, un irse para encontrarse. Leer, aun siendo un acto comúnmente sedentario, nos vuelve a nuestra condición de nómadas.”
Source: Leer contra la nada
“Leer es ver la realidad desde otros ojos, acceder a otras memorias y otras visiones que nos permiten interpretar de diversas maneras, e interactuar con los otros, alimentando la comunicación humana.”
Source: Ojo de bruja
“Leer het jezelf af om direct tekst en uitleg te geven. Geef alleen antwoord op de gestelde vraag, zónder extra informatie te geven. Je kunt heel erg gewend zijn om niet alleen antwoord te geven op de gestelde vraag, maar ook alvast meteen op al het andere dat zal volgen: de vervolgvragen waarvan je wéét dat ze die zullen stellen.”
Source: Bouw een muur tegen narcistische manipulaties
“Leer inleyerek kolunun üzerine yaslanıyor. Öyle bir kanıyor ki elimizden gelen yok. Boşalan bir tüp gibi, birkaç dakika içinde çöküverdi. Okulda, matematikte birinci oluşunun şimdi ona ne yararı var ki?”
Source: All quiet on the western front
“Leer, leer, leer; ¿seré lectura
mañana también yo?
¿Seré mi creador, mi criatura,
seré lo que pasó?”
Source: Antología poética
“Leer poesía, hoy en día, es rescatar una lengua muerta.”
“Leer significa crear un pequeño tesoro propio, personal, de recuerdos, de emociones, un tesoro que no será idéntico al de ningún otro y que, sin embargo, podremos poner en disponibilidad común con otros.”
Source: Querida Mathilda