L Quotes
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“Liquid xylophone music with a hint of saxophone is too exotic to drink. But it's perfect for swimming ducks, and that sound really comes across in the taste later.”
Source: Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.
“Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.”
Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.”
“Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate.”
“Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate the farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up from less competent people.”
“Liquidity collapse is not the sign of the market bottom. It is instead a sign that the bottom is not far.”
“Liquidity equals freedom.”
“Liquidity is essential in business. So many businesses fail because of a failure to retain liquidity. But the principle is simple - to get things done, businesses need access to cash and capital. And without that access to cash and capital the business will fail because it won't be able to find it's operations.”
“Liquidity is important to investors. When opportunities arise, businesses need to have sufficient cash available in order to act on the opportunity promptly. Having sufficient cash available can also serve as protection against losses or a tool with which the business acquired solutions in the event of crises. We like to see that businesses have a sufficient amount of available cash.”
“Liquor - you can make it illegal but you can't make it unpopular.”
“Liquor and love rescue the cloudy sense banish its despair give it a home.”
Source: The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962
“Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.”
“Liquor is one way out an’ death’s the other.”
“Liquor is such a nice substitute for facing adult life.”
Source: In a Lonely Place
“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”
“Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal”
“Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense.”
“Lir said, "It is my right. A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last." But Schmendrick answered, "This is not the end, either for you or for her.”
Source: The Last Unicorn
“Lire c'est rêver les yeux ouverts.”
“Lire ressemble à regarder à l'horizon. D'abord on ne voit qu'une ligne noir. Puis on imagine des mondes.”
“Lire un bon livre, ça redonne envie de vivre, ça vous donne envie de partir, A la recherche du temps perdu.”
“Lis Sladen was very important to me, you know. When I joined the little world of 'Doctor Who', Lis was already a star.”
“Lisa added, "The big trigger for Rache is mistreatment of dogs. I think you could kick a toddler in the face, and she wouldn't flinch. But if you kicked a dog in front of her, she'd probably kill you on the spot.
"I'll, uh, keep that in mind," I said. Then, double checking that nobody was in a position to overhear, I figured it was as good a time to as as any, "Has she killed anyone?"
"She's wanted for serial murder," Brian sighed. "It's inconvenient.”
Source: Worm
“Lisa Fithian: The direct action element always brings the energy, attracts young people, but it is also the primary way in which we're building culture. Because all of these movements have to have culture the songs, the music, the visuals. Culture's life. And we're dealing with a culture of death in the U.S. We need to have an alternative. So, we were embodying a culture of life.
[As quoted by DW Gibson.]”
Source: One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests
“Lisa had an engineer's way of shrugging off the entire field of the humanities, all three thousand years of it, as self-indulgent fuzzy thinking.”
Source: You
“Lisa Hendey’s CatholicMom.com website has long been a treasured internet gathering spot. The Handbook for Catholic Moms is a welcome extension of Lisa’s wisdom and energy, enriched by the experiences of the community of women who have found community, support, and strength through CatholicMom.com.”
“Lisa Joy is so incredible, and she's always on set making sure everyone is okay and being respectful. We have a zero-tolerance policy on that set [ in the Westworlds]. If anyone is inappropriate or makes you uncomfortable, they're literally gone in two seconds. It's no joke. It's very professional.”
“Lisa Lampanelli lost 100 pounds, but that's because she was poached for ivory.”
“Lisa Livia caught one of the tubs of icing as it almost rolled off.
"Ick," she said. "What's on this? It's sort of sticky." She looked closer. "This is blood."
"Well, Shane picked it up for me." Agnes got a paper towel and wiped off the tub.
"Thoughtful of him.”
Source: Agnes and the Hitman
“Lisa Smith-Batchen, the amazingly sunny and pixie-tailed ultrarunner from Idaho who trained through blizzards to win a six-day race in the Sahara, talks about exhaustion as if it's a playful pet. 'I love the Beast,' she says. 'I actually look forward to the Beast showing up, because every time he does, I handle him better. I get him more under control.' Once the Beast arrives, Lisa knows what she has to deal with and can get down to work. And isn't that the reason she's running through the desert in the first place-to put her training to work? To have a friendly little tussle with the Beast and show it who's boss? You can't hate the Beast and expect to beat it; the only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you , is to love it.”
Source: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
“Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long odds. She had not hesitated to buck the Tiger, Life. Simon Iff had warned her that she was acting on impulse. But--on the top of that--he had merely urged her to be true to it. She swore once more that she would stick to her guns. The black mood fell from her. She turned and looked upon the sea, now far below. The sun, a hollow orb of molten glory, hung quivering in the mist of the Mediterranean; and Lisa entered for a moment into a perfect peace of spirit. She became once with Nature, instead of a being eternally at war with it.”
Source: Moonchild
“Lisa's baby was due about now. I've decided she had it and it was a girl. I've named her Rachel.”
Source: The Life As We Knew It Collection
“Lisa: 'Do we have any food that wasn't brutally slaughtered?' Homer: 'Well, I think the veal died of loneliness.'”
“Lisabeth möchte auch, dass Madita gut rechnen kann, und sie denkt sich die ausgeklügelsten Rechenaufgaben für sie aus, genau wie Papa es immer macht. "Madita", sagt Lisabeth aus dem Holzkasten hervor, "wenn es zehn Jungen gibt und sie einen davon operieren, wie viele sind dann noch übrig?”
Source: Madita
“Lisbeth Salander era la mujer que odiaba a los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres”
Source: The Girl Who Played with Fire
“Lisbon, to me,
is the Lisbon of Pessoa.
Just like London is Woolf’s,
or rather, Mrs. Dalloway’s.
Barcelona is Gaudí's
and Rome is da Vinci’s.
You see them in every crevice
and hear their echoes
in every cathedral.
I’d like to be the child,
or rather, the mother of a city
but I neither have a home
nor a resting place.
My race is humankind.
My religion is kindness.
My work is love
and, well, my city
is the walls of your heart.”
“Lise: Paris has ways of making people forget. Jerry: Paris? No, not this city. It's too real and too beautiful. It never lets you forget anything. It reaches in and opens you wide, and you stay that way.”
“Lisette set out browned chicken, warm butternut squash salad, blue potatoes, and blackberry bread with a crust of sugar that looked like ice crystals.”
Source: Lost Lake
“Lish tried to swear--which is always funny, because the computer won't translate it. It went something like this: "Bleep stupid bleep bleep faeries and their bleep bleep bleep obsessions. He had better stop bleep bleep bleep the bleep bleep rules or I will bleep bleep bleep the little bleeeeeeeeeeep.”
Source: Paranormalcy
“Lisp ... made me aware that software could be close to executable mathematics.”
“Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me.”
“Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.”
“Lisp has jokingly been called “the most intelligent way to misuse a computer”. I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.”
“LISP has jokingly been described as "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer." I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavour of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.”
“Lisp is still #1 for key algorithmic techniques such as recursion and condescension.”
“Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.”
Source: The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
“Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.”
“Lisp was far more powerful and flexible than any other language of its day; in fact, it is still a better design than most languages of today, twenty-five years later. Lisp freed ITS's hackers to think in unusual and creative ways. It was a major factor in their successes, and remains one of hackerdom's favorite languages.”
“Lissa knelt down, compassion on her face. I wasn't surprised, since she'd always had a thing for animals. She'd lectured me for days after I'd instigated the infamous hamster-and-hermit-crab fight. I'd viewed the fight as a testing of worthy opponents. She'd seen it as animal cruelty.”
Source: Vampire Academy
“Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps and go to Africa and shave my head and dig latrines." "Shave your head?" I said, because, really, this was the most ludicrous part of the whole thing. "You? Do you have any idea how ugly most people's bare heads are? They've got all kinds of bumps, Lissa. And you won't know until it's too late and you're flat-out bald.”
Source: This Lullaby