L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.”
“Lesbians are the poets of the humanity of women.”
Source: The aerial letter
“LESBIANS are women who prefer their own ways to male ways.LESBIANS prefer the convoluting halls of sensuality to direct goal-pursuing mores. LESBIANS have made a small world deep within and separated from the world.What has usually been called the world is the male world.”
Source: Essential Acker: The Selected Writings of Kathy Acker
“Lesbians have never been more popular.”
“Lesbians, in my eyes, are defined as the ones who invent their own systems of love: Romantic love. Family love. Friend love. A love for community, and for strangers too. They love when there is nothing to gain—no kingdom, no castle, no seat in the official record books of history—even when they are at risk of losing everything.”
Source: Lesbian Love Story
“Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.”
“LeSean McCoy has become the most exciting player in the National Football League. I believe he’s the MVP this year.”
“Lesen, lesen, immer nur lesen und darüber die eigene erbärmliche Existenz vergessen!”
Source: Das Labyrinth der Träumenden Bücher
“Leslie-Ann set down her own bucket and watched, marveling, as a quarter of an inch of water covered the bottom.
When she looked away, she saw an older kid. She’d seen him around. But usually he was with Orc and she was too scared of Orc ever to get near him.
She tugged on Howard’s wet sleeve. He seemed not to be sharing in the general glee. His face was severe and sad.
“What?” he asked wearily.
“I know something.”
“Well, goody for you.”
“It’s about Albert.”
Howard sighed. “I heard. He’s dead. Orc’s gone and Albert’s dead and these idiots are partying like it’s Mardi Gras or something.”
“I think he might not be dead,” Leslie-Ann said.
Howard shook his head, angry at being distracted. He walked away. But then he stopped, turned, and walked back to her. “I know you,” he said. “You clean Albert’s house.”
“Yes. I’m Leslie-Ann.”
“What are you telling me about Albert?”
“I saw his eyes open. And he looked at me.”
Source: Plague
“Leslie, don’t you believe that I know who you will marry, and that I’m capable of leading you to that right man someday?”
Source: When God Writes Your Love Story: The Ultimate Approach to Guy/Girl Relationships
“Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming -- and they ate children and puppies.”
Source: Fair Game
“Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.”
“Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems.”
“Leslie?" Irial whispered. "What are you doing?" "Choosing." Tears were soaking the blanket under Leslie's face. "I'm mine. Not anyone else's." "I'm still yours, though. That won't ever change, Shadow Girl." And then he was gone, and her emotions crashed over her.”
“Less a point on a map and more a region of the soul, but it is a path I can follow.”
Source: The Forbidden Wish
“Less and less frequently do we encounter people with the ability to tell a tale properly. More and more often there is embarrassment all around when the wish to hear a story is expressed. It is as if something that seemed inalienable to us, the securest among our possessions, were taken from us: the ability to exchange our experiences...Experience has fallen in value. And it looks as if it is continuing to fall into bottomlessness.”
“Less and less is life animated through personal discovery, intimacy with others, or self-reflection. While life has become more manageable for many people, it has become commensurately less engaged.”
“Less and less is the question being asked as to whether developments are taking place in a democratic and free way. Europe is in a phase in which this output is no longer sufficiently visible or tangible. Youth unemployment is still far too high, we still haven't solved our currency problem and living conditions in Europe are drifting apart. That is one reason why critics say that our Europe is based on yesteryear's model.”
“less apathy,
more empathy.”
“Less base the fear of death than fear of life.”
Source: Night thoughts on life death and immortality ... to which are added the life of the author and a paraphrase on part of the Book of Job
“Less bitching...more learning.”
“Less can be more. Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction. Athletes require rest and recovery time.”
Source: Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence
“Less cars on the road means productivity and jobs growth, as it allows for the more efficient movement of goods and services and encourages greater urban population density.”
“Less coin, less care.”
“Less dead" homicide victims, a term credited to criminologist Steven Egger, have historically been not as thoroughly investigated as their wealthier, whiter, and perhaps more sober counterparts. Pretty white college students are the most dead. Black transgender hookers with addiction issues are the least dead.”
Source: Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer
“Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.”
Source: General investigations of curved surfaces
“Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)
“Less effort in this game makes more results.”
“Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.”
“Less fear; more hope: just four little four-letter words, but when they are vividly felt as emotion, they are behavior changing, life changing, world-changing.”
“Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.”
Source: Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry
“Less gossiping, more learning. Less complaining, more excelling. Less walls, more bridges. Less fear, more courage”
“Less government in business and more business in government.”
“Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.”
“Less hatred, more love, less war, more peace, more respect for the Mother Nature and for other people.”
“Less human, more being.”
“Less hurt now to avoid more hurt later.”
Source: How Hard Can Love Be?
“Less ice cream and more veggies!”
“Less information often leads to more interpretation.”
“Less is even less, and more is still not quite enough.”
Source: We Flew Over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold
“Less is less. Heartbreak is heartbreak. You think I'm sitting here gloating. Telling myself that my suffering beats yours? Hurt is hurt. You don't measure these things.”
“Less is more only when more is too much.”
“Less is more. Progress is made through precise, persistent, and purposeful pushes.”
Source: Endeavor: Cultivate Excellence While Making a Difference
“Less is more. -Robert Browning”
Source: The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
“Less is more when you do a bright, bold lip. Just draw on black liner and some mascara and you're good to go!”
“Less is more, in prose as in architecture.”
Source: WRITING WELL
“Less is more, unless you're Al Gore.”
“Less is more.”
Source: Looking for Mies
“Less is more. Happiness is found close to the necessities of life, not in needless complexity and meaningless multiplicity of choice.”
Source: The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America
“Less is more. I think that if you try to put too many beauty products on, you're probably gonna get used to it. Your skin is not supposed to be covered with a bunch of stuff, so I think that less is definitely more.”