L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is far more comfortable giving a journalist "Tom Waits" the character, whose conversation is really a series of strange tales, learned or ad-libbed.”
“Leonard (Cohen) never broke my heart, but his songs have, every time I sing or hear one of them. As Leonard says, “There is a crack in everything; that’s how the light gets in.”
Source: Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music
“Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa.
But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa.”
Source: The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity
“Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage and Matsuzawa Yutaka as artists who live in the past. Their ideas are still alive in our world because they express the very important concerns of our age. That is why I could trust them as "contemporary artists".”
“Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation.”
“Leonard smiled glibly. "There's no need for pretense between us, Klein. I witnessed you break free from Sealed Artifact 2-049's control, so I know you're special. And you should be able to sense that I'm a little different from the average Beyonder." His smile vanished as he met Klein's eyes. "I've told you, there are many special people in this world who can always achieve things others cannot, such as yourself... and such as me.”
Source: Lord of Mysteries, Vol. 2: The Clown, Part II
“Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".”
“Leonard Woolf’s endurance of Virginia’s famous frigidity is, we must suppose after the fact, altogether to his credit. Their honeymoon did not bring the amelioration they had hoped for and it is incredibly innocent and moving to think of them discussing it with Vanessa. They wanted to know when she had first had an orgasm. She said she couldn’t remember but she knew she had been “sympathetic” from the age of two. Vita Sackville-West said about Virginia, “She dislikes the possessiveness and love of domination in men. In fact she dislikes the quality of masculinity.”
Source: Seduction and Betrayal
“Leonard wore a new feeling of peace. He had always associated peace with the idea of happiness, as if it were some sort of steady state that happiness turned into when it was for real. But now he realized that peace is independent of any one feeling. The deep peace that he now felt was in a minor key. It was not blissful, but melancholy. It was a profound acceptance of things as the were, devoid of superficial preferences. The weight of effort that it took to be happy was lifted from his bones.”
Source: Leonard and Hungry Paul
“Leonardo believed his research had the
potential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last year he categorically proved the existence of
an energy force that unites us all. He actually demonstrated that we are all physically connected… that the molecules in your body are intertwined with the molecules in mine… that there is a single force moving within all of us.”
Source: Angels & Demons
“Leonardo confiaba en ella y en su exquisito gusto para todo, lo que nunca se imaginó era tener que hacerse cargo de su funeral y no de su boda. La experiencia había sido demasiado dolorosa.”
Source: Aurora: Arte, Pasión y Seducción (Arte, Pasión y Seducción (APS))
“Leonardo Da Vinci combined art and science and aesthetics and engineering, that kind of unity is needed once again.”
“Leonardo da Vinci did not take received wisdom - whether from ancient classical thinkers or medieval scholars or from the Bible - without questioning it. And this was the beginning of the scientific method. This is another lesson for our time: that when we have evidence that contradicts a certain belief, we should be willing to change it. I think this made Leonardo, in some ways, a person who better understood the beauty of God's creation than a person who just takes all received wisdom from the Bible on faith.”
“Leonardo da Vinci had such a playful curiosity. If you read his notebooks, you'll see he's curious about what the tongue of a woodpecker looks like, but also why the sky is blue, or how an emotion forms on somebody's lips. He understood the beauty of everything. I've admired Leonardo my whole life, both as a kid who loved engineering - he was one of the coolest engineers in history - and then as a college student, when I travelled to see his notebooks and paintings.”
“Leonardo da Vinci travels to the Holy Land to uncover a secret that has shaped the fate of all civilizations.”
Source: CODEX: The Origin of Thought
“Leonardo da Vinci was a man of regal spirit and tremendous breadth of mind; and his name became so famous that not only was he esteemed during his lifetime, but his reputation endured and became even greater after his death.”
Source: Lives of the Artists
“Leonardo da Vinci was comfortable being illegitimate, gay, a misfit, a heretic. But he also respected other people. He didn't get into disputations. He was a genius but he had a certain humility. In his notebooks you see lists of people he wanted to grill about things like how the water diversions in Milan work; he was always interested in learning from other people.”
“Leonardo da Vinci was homosexual, so was Michelangelo, Socrates, Shakespeare, and almost every other figure that has formed what we have come to understand as beauty.”
“Leonardo da Vinci was lucky to be born the same year that Johannes Gutenberg opened his printing shop. As a young person, he could get information about whatever struck his curiosity. The Internet is to our age what Gutenberg's press was to his, so he would have loved being alive today.”
“Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He wrote: "For I have found in my own experience that it is of no small benefit, when you lie in bed in the dark, to recall in imagination, one after another, the outlines of the form you have been studying." He often awoke to find his problems solved. Da Vinci would often stand silent and motionless before a painting for hours, without using his brush, as though waiting for spiritual guidance.”
“Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo is arguably the world's most famous polymath. So many thoughts and so many different ideas!”
“Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack in 'Titanic' was my childhood crush!”
“Leonardo DiCaprio's life is the perfect example of how not to be. I would not wish his life on anybody.”
“Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.”
Source: Leonardo da Vinci
“Leonardo is the most incredible actor, on the planet, with a couple of people alongside him. Getting to act with him is just [amazing]. I walked away from my audition for that and I couldn't believe that I'd been acting with him. I've worked with amazing people, but my friends freak out that I'm working with him. I freak out in a geeky acting way. They freak out in a starstruck way. He's Leonardo DiCaprio, and his fame is so big. That's a complete tangent about that.”
“Leonardo's Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo's David is just a million hits with a hammer. We're all of us a million bits put together the right way.”
Source: Diary: A Novel
“Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting.”
“LEONATO Neighbours, you are tedious. DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship.”
Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works
“LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.”
Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions
“Leonid Andréyev, del que ya le he hablado, tiene un relato. Un hombre que vivía en Jerusalén vio un día cómo junto a su casa conducían a Cristo. El hombre lo vio todo y lo oyó, pero entonces le dolía una muela. Ante sus ojos, Cristo cayó al suelo con la cruz a cuestas, cayó y lanzó un grito de dolor. El hombre que veía todo esto no salió de su casa a la calle porque le dolía una muela. Al cabo de dos días, cuando dejó de dolerle la muela, le contaron que Cristo había resucitado y entonces el hombre pensó: «Y yo que podía haber sido testigo del hecho, pero como me dolía la muela…».
¿Será posible que siempre ocurra igual? Los hombres nunca están a la altura de los grandes acontecimientos. Siempre les superan los hechos. Mi padre luchó en la defensa de Moscú en el 42. Pero no comprendió que había participado en un gran acontecimiento hasta pasadas decenas de años. Por los libros, las películas. Él, en cambio, recordaba: «Estaba metido en una trinchera. Disparaba. Quedé enterrado por una explosión. Los enfermeros me sacaron de allí medio vivo». Y nada más.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“LEONOR.- ¿Y Toledo? ¿Qué fue de Toledo?
ALFONSO.- El otro polo. La cabeza pensante de lo andaluz: toda la sabiduría oriental traída por judíos y por los moros...Con su arte y su industria. basta mirar alrededor...¿Lo ves?...El Norte dio el espíritu. El Sur la elegancia y la cultura.”
Source: Si las piedras hablaran
“Leonora [had an] instinctive conviction that the world needs to be seen as a layering of experiences and events.”
Source: The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
“Leonora liked to think of her life as calm of mind, all passion spent, or, more rarely, as emotion recollected in tranquillity.”
Source: The Sweet Dove Died
“Leonora moved forward, shaky in high heels. For a ridiculous moment she wondered if she should put out her hand to shake his, but then he reached for her, putting his hands on her shoulders and bending down to kiss her on each cheek.”
Source: Redeemed by His Stolen Bride
“Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.”
Source: Reflections in a Golden Eye
“Leopard is an animal design, and my designs come from nature.”
“Leopard print has been my thing forever! When I was a teenager my entire room was done in leopard print - it's timeless, chic, and always in style. When in doubt... leopard!”
“Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.
(Leoparden brechen in den Tempel ein und saufen die Opferkrüge leer; das wiederholt sich immer wieder; schließlich kann man es vorausberechnen, und es wird ein Teil der Zeremonie.)”
Source: Parables and Paradoxes
“Leopards, that is ordinary forest leopards, do not like rain and invariably seek shelter, but the man eater was not an ordinary leopard, and there was no knowing what his likes or dislikes were, or what he might or might not do.”
Source: Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag
“Leopardstar says that they're staying with us so the Clans can exchange training methods and fighting techniques, but I don't see much sign of it. All they do is watch....It's like they're learning all about us, all our secrets and weaknesses. That's why I came over here, to get away from them for a bit.”
“Leopold II did his utmost to pacify his Congo Free State, by putting an end to the incessant tribal wars (with ensuing atrocities including cannibalism), and by defeating the Arab slave traders who were decimating the population of the eastern part of the country, with the assistance of local tribes such as the Batetela.”
“Leopold II has always been a bit of an obsession for me. In 1955 I was appointed to the order named after him, I didn't quite know what to do with it, I defiantly walked around with the ribbon in the hope that some colonel would say: "Vlerk, what are you doing with that?" It never happened unfortunately. I've read 42 books about him, documented thoroughly about the interest rate in 1882, and you can't help but feel admiration for that man. He has been the last great king, a kind of dinosaur. When he said or wrote 'we', you don't know whether he's talking about himself, his family, his country or his dynasty.”
“Leopold II is de stichter van Congo, degenen die zijn standbeeld op het Troonplein willen verwijderen zouden zich beter bezighouden met de bestrijding van de Afrikaanse drugsdealers in de Matongewijk.”
“Leopold II laid the foundation for a common culture through education, a multi-ethnic ‘Force Publique’ that spoke Lingala, a meticulous administration and laws based on ‘zero tolerance’. He signed the state and is thus the father of Congo.”
Source: Léopold II Le plus grand chef d'Etat de l'histoire du Congo (Études africaines)
“Leopold II paved the way for a Congo that could be independent from other countries, but that is currently very disappointing, in 1960 — the year of independence — Congo is an emerging and prosperous country. The Congolese at that time have the highest standard of living in all of Africa.”
Source: Léopold II Le plus grand chef d'Etat de l'histoire du Congo (Études africaines)
“Leopold II shows to the Congolese elites the importance of patriotism and of working for the greatness of a country and its people.”
Source: Léopold II Le plus grand chef d'Etat de l'histoire du Congo (Études africaines)
“Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Leor smiled. “Merci, Monsieur Rusé.”
“De rien.” Jean replied, and then he checked his watch. “Our flight will be leaving soon. Are you ready for that adventure? Can you brave the terrors of second class?”
Leor laughed. “It depends if I get the window seat.”
Source: Beyond Chivalry
“Leowin: Don't worry Luthiel. 'Truth's existence never depended upon belief.”
“Lepas tu aku sedar, bahagia ni sebenarnya benda yang kita ada. Bukan benda yang kita cari. Kalau kita terus cari benda tu, maksudnya benda tu kita tak ada.”
Source: KELABU