L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment.”
“Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.”
“Like drinking a cup of tea, all the simple things in life are the real things that make us happy!”
“Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you—just a tad—off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt, but you're able to pull it back. Yet no matter how hard you try to drive straight, something keeps jerking you to the side. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much—too tiring—and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“Like drops of water that fall on the rocks of the jungle, the silence is full of tenderness.
Whisper softly my poetry unraveling your admiration.
In the name of night.
Everything I see is simplicity in your beautiful body
Like an incandescent light that dispels the darkness
Then it bounced on the rose petals in the dim moonlight.
Blushing reconciles the anxiety of the soul
Comforting a sore heart
Your beauty is a flower that unites to dazzle the majesty of the universe.
Ahhh love...
Your beauty is like a waterfall from the height of a cliff that is so sensual, showing the magic of a perfect panorama.
How seductive and alluring is your soft skin.....
As gentle as the twilight wind blew the dandelions scattered under the night sky.
As soft as a lump of cotton that lay white on the heart rug.
As gentle as the caress of the night breeze, flaking your shiny black hair.
Ahhh.
Let my breath rest for a moment
Here,
Between two seas of wine flowing red I find on your lips.
How beautiful is love
When the stalks of a kiss fall lying down
Tickling spoiled and whispering intimately about the love that is heaven behind your ear with a warm whisper blowing slowly
And
Slowly... caressing your face in a long soft moan
Lull a thousand touches and then cast your body into a pleasure that you have not found.
In the name of my chest.
Let our restless tantrums grapple in the flames of burning love.
Until our passion quells the passion,
Wet and subside.
️”
Source: Saga Moon Poem
“Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.”
Source: Men Without Women
“Like dust brushed from an old painting, as we journey beneath the surface layers of life, another landscape is revealed.”
Source: Unbound
“Like Dvoretsky, I think that (all other things being equal), the analytical method of studying chess must give you a colossal advantage over the chess pragmatist, and that there can be no certainty in chess without analysis. I personally acquired these views from my sessions with Mikhail Botvinnik, and they laid the foundations of my chess-playing life.”
“Like dying cells of beatless hearts I'm cold
I wasted years in promised lands they sold”
Source: Reflective Dogma
“Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright
With joy the spirit moves and burns;
So up to thee! O Fount of Light!
Our light returns.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Sterling
“Like electricity, the Light is everywhere, but one must know how to activate it. I have come for that.”
“Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.”
“Like employment, housing is also politicised too.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Like enacting clichés, sometimes you just gotta be a little basic. Balance that fuckin’ pH to a proper 7.”
Source: In Limbo
“Like energy drinks, real friends will boost your energy, enhance your mental alertness and ginger you into action.”
“Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks.”
“Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.)”
“Like Eve, we ponder the lie, and given the space, it settles in. It begins its insidious mission, robbing us of God's richest gifts.”
Source: Living Whole Without a Better Half: Biblical Truth for the Single Life
“Like every actor, you get notorious for maybe one role and then get offered a lot of similar roles.”
“Like every American, I will never forget where I was on the morning of September 11, 2001. As a member of Congress from Indiana, that day my duties took me to Capitol Hill and to sights and sounds I will never forget.”
“Like every aspect of cancer I've weathered thus far, today's experience was not at all demoralizing, expensive or humiliating. No, it was just plain fun.”
“Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood, and I can only control what I do in the audition, and after that it's up to somebody else.”
“Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.”
Source: Dandelion Wine
“Like every big organisation these days, the BBC is obsessed with the wellbeing of those who set foot on its premises. Studios must display warning notices if there is real glass on the set, and the other day I was presented with a booklet explaining how to use a door. I am not kidding.”
Source: The world according to Clarkson
“Like every book I never wrote, it is by far the best book I have ever written.”
“Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.”
“Like every dreamer, I've always felt that my calling was to create. Since I've never been able to make an effort or carry out an intention, creation for me has always meant dreaming, wanting or desiring, and action has meant desiring of the acts I wish I could perform.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“Like every drug happiness should also be in moderation.”
Source: The Prose will be forgotten
“Like every experience that marks us for a lifetime, I found myself turned inside out, drawn and quartered. This was the sum of everything I'd been in my life—and more.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Like every fiction, Holly Golightly was a composite of multiple nonfictions.”
Source: Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
“Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.”
“Like every generation that has ever trod the sod, we are arrogant enough to believe we are always the culmination of history, rather than just one more stretch of a road that goes on forever.”
Source: Every Man a King: A Short, Colorful History of American Populists
“Like every girl, I felt amazing pressure to look like the popular girls, but no one told me the popular girls were all air brushed in magazines.”
“Like every human we have to categorize ourselves, so you kind of start to build a mythos 'cause I had no information about [ biological mother]. So you have to build a mythos around yourself. And so my mythos included me not being wanted or me being a wretched person, which is just great fertilizer for comedy.”
“Like every illusion, fiction is one of the innumerable parts of reality.”
“Like every lively fresh morning rises above the earth,new hopes arrive with the lulling song
of birds,that fosters her gently maturing move;
and rosy blossomed flowers do deck her bedding.”
Source: Venus and Crepuscule
“Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history, a history which the church and the world possess, and which, surrounded by countless memorials, has at least the same authenticity as any other history formed in the same countries, amidst the same peoples and in the same times. As, then, if I would study the lives of Brutus and Cassius, I should calmly open Plutarch, I open the Gospel to study Jesus Christ, and I do so with the same composure.”
“Like every mother, my wish - every birthday - is for my children to stay healthy (and) for my family to remain healthy.”
“Like every normal person, I hate my voice. And I am not the only one who hates my voice. The voiceover gets a lot of strong reactions. A lot of people love it, and a few people truly hate it and pronounce the films are unwatchable because of my Latvian accent. But it also has a certain level of theatricality, and everything is important for a manic character.”
“Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo---which, given the number and variety of its descendants, might justifiably be described as the most stupendous badass of all time. Everyone and everything that wasn't a stupendous badass was dead.”
“Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who had dared to expect progress. But we should feel more than sympathy for those people. We should take it personally. For if any of those earlier experiments in optimism had succeeded, our species would be exploring the stars by now, and you and I would be immortal.”
“Like every other form of art, literature is no more and nothing less than a matter of life and death. The only question worth asking about a story — or a poem, or a piece of sculpture, or a new concert hall — is, Is it dead or alive?”
“Like every other girl in the world, my most embarrassing moment had to do with a guy completely turning me down. His loss!”
“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.”
Source: Crome Yellow
“Like every other house-renting, paycheck-to-paycheck, heel dragging working American, it wouldn't matter if I stepped in it by accident or was pushed, or simply whiffed it as I walked by. With the powers in play, guilt or innocence had nothing to do with anything.”
Source: The Never-Open Desert Diner
“Like every other means of expression, photography, if it is to be utterly honest and direct, should be related to the life of the times - the pulse of today.”
“Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.”
“Like every other resident of Avening, Ana had no idea how old Autumn was. It was the stuff of legend. She didn't look old, and she didn't look young: she was suspended somewhere between the two. Autumn claimed that she was mostly a Celt, but for a Dutch grandfather and a Native American grandmother, a combination that gave her somewhat exotic looks. Her blue-black hair was cut in a pixie style, her eyes were green, and her cheekbones were high and defined. Today, she wore a black turtleneck and straight-legged pants, Audrey Hepburn-style.”
Source: When Autumn Leaves