L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Laminated Lettuce ... perfect for holiday gift giving.”
“Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids
“LaMont, the truth is that the world is incredibly, incredibly, unbelievably old. You suffer with the stunted desire caused by one of its oldest lies. Do not believe the photographs. Fame is not the exit from any cage.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“Lamp burns through the inputs of small oil drops. Compassion grows through small acts of kindness.”
Source: Walking the Path of Compassion
“Lamp of life is the Lord's spirit.”
“Lamp of light is holy LORD.”
“Lampadine blu su alberi di rame nero, scolpiti spogli, come fossero fiori. Oltre le tende, ed il vetro della grande finestra, il porto illuminato. Il regista e la sua assistente siedono poggiati con la schiena su di un tronco freddo, al centro della stanza, immersi nella piccola foresta a cerchio. Le paillette del vestito lungo che il regista ancora indossa riflettono tanti piccoli bagliori blu elettrico, come congelate scintille sul suo corpo modellato da donna. Due calici di vino rosso poggiati per terra nel triangolo di spazio vuoto tra la coscia sinistra di lui e la coscia destra scoperta dell'assistente. Di sottofondo un leggero ronzio, simile a quello di un amplificatore. Le facce placide come nel sonno, se non per gli occhi di entrambi dondoli tra la porta d'ingresso ed i petali di luce sopra le loro teste. Sulla parete opposta alla finestra un letto matrimoniale con coperte a rombi bianco perla.
"È stata una bella giornata, come di primavera" dice a bassa voce il regista, con la voce resa grave dal vino.
"Qualcosa ti ha ispirato?"
"Le ombre, per adesso, sotto alla giostra."
"Qualcosa ti turba?"
Il regista non risponde, guarda il blu sulle sue ginocchia.
"Il trenino è stato fantastico. Ho riso molto, ma ho anche pianto."
"Tutti mi chiedono della stanza rossa.”
Source: Cielo, apri aria
“Lampard fired straight through the middle of a non-existent wall.”
“Lampard is a specialist in insulting people very badly.”
“Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.”
“Lampard's not the first player to run to the crowd with lips over his mouth.”
“Lampard, as usual, arrived in the nick of time, but it wasn't quite soon enough.”
“Lampard, for me, was a marvellous servant for Chelsea, but I didn't think of him as an elite international footballer. And I am one of the few who felt Gerrard was not a top, top player.”
“Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.”
“Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.”
Source: Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of
“Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig in the 1930s in London.”
“Lampoon ran out of steam in the early '80s, and wasn't able to reinvent itself because it ran out of talent. People who wanted to do this kind of stuff could suddenly make $100,000 in Hollywood right out of college.”
“Lampoon was a very collegial operation, though "collegial" usually means "friendly" and it wasn't that friendly. But we were tight, like a family.”
“Lampoon was exactly the opposite. The work was a lot of fun, but the office environment was hell. You cannot put 20 humorists together.”
“Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller ...
“Lampposts look, in the glow of their defeated light, robbed by the fog, but cannot tell if the streets, lying by stretching limbs in courtyards, are sleeping face downwards or supine.”
“Lamps are different, but light is the same.”
“Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“Lampu hijau berpikir dirinya adalah tokoh utama, tetapi ketika dia naik ke atas panggung, tidak ada siapa-siapa di sana.”
“Lan grimaced. Was she that afraid of a man wearing the hadori? Did she think his pacing a threat? Abruptly he became aware of his hands running over the long hilt of his sword, aware of the tightness in his own face. Pacing? No, he had been in the walking stance called Leopard in High Grass, used when there were enemies on all sides. He needed calm.”
Source: New Spring
“Lan shook his head sightly "He was better. But he thought I was finished, with only one arm. He never understood. You surrender after you're dead.”
Source: New Spring
“Lan WangJi, 'Is it amusing, trifling with empty words?'
Wei WuXian, 'It’s very amusing. But, believe me, my words are as much a trifle as my moves are, which means not at all.”
Source: 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]
“Lan WangJi, 'Is it amusing, trifling with empty words?'
Wei WuXian, 'It’s very amusing. But, believe me, my words are as much a trifle as my moves are, which means not at all.'
'…' Lan WangJi muttered to himself, 'Why am I sitting here having such a useless conversation with you?”
Source: 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]
“Lan XiChen was shocked, "Young Master Wei, could it be that even after you spent such a long time together with WangJi, you still do not know of his feelings?”
Source: 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]
“Lan XiChen, 'You believe in him?'
Lan WangJi, 'I do.'
He answered without any hesitation. Wei WuXian felt his chest warm up.”
Source: 魔道祖师 [Mó Dào Zǔ Shī]
“Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She's not alone with implants.”
“Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly remade herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.”
“Lana intertwined her fingers through his. “That’s all we can ever do. Try,” she responded, her voice hushed. “Try to hold on to those moments that flicker like candlelight with the people we care about. You and I both know they don’t always last.”
Source: Forged Futures
“Lana is a voluptuous brunette with a seductive smile and big, sparkling, cocoa eyes. Flirtatious and fun-loving, she has a couple of boyfriends, but enjoys her gal pals just as much, if not more. Though she loves to party and play practical jokes, she’s a conscientious mom and respected leader in her community. Gentle yet assertive, she can be fierce when crossed, but she’s also quick to forgive, turning hostility into harmony with remarkable empathy and a playful flair. In many ways, she’s just like a lot of wonderful women we all know. But Lana is not a woman, nor even human. Lana is a bonobo.”
Source: The Bonobo Way
“Lana leveled the gun at Penny. “Stop,” Lana said.
Penny’s reddened face grew pale. Whatever visions she was inflicting on the people below her stopped. Kids cried in pain, sobbed from the memories.
“Oh, everyone has to kiss your butt, don’t they, Healer.” Penny spit that last word. She made her hands into claws and pawed at the air. Her lips were drawn back in a teeth-baring animal snarl.
“If I shoot you, I won’t heal you,” Lana said calmly.
That caught Penny off guard. But she recovered quickly. She put her head down and started to laugh. It began low and rose a few decibels at a time.
Lana’s arm burst into flame.
A noose was flung from the ruined church wall. The rope dropped over her head, landed on her shoulders, and tightened around her throat.
The limestone beneath her feet was suddenly a forest of knives all stabbing up at her.
“Yeah,” Lana said. “That won’t work on me. I’ve gone one-on-one with the gaiaphage. He could teach you a few things. Stop it. Now. Or bang.”
Penny’s laugh choked off. She looked hurt. As if someone had said something cruel to her. The visions ceased as suddenly as if someone had switched off a TV.
“I’m kind of opposed to murder,” Lana said. “But if you don’t turn and walk away, I’ll blow a hole right where your heart is supposed to be.”
“You can’t…” Penny said. “You… No.”
“I missed killing a monster once. I’ve always regretted it,” Lana said. “But you’re a human. Sort of. So you get this chance: walk. Keep walking.”
For what felt like a very long time Penny stood staring at Lana. Not with hatred, but with disbelief. Lana saw her very, very clearly: a head resting atop the sights of her pistol.
Penny took a step back. Then another. There was a wild look of defiance, but then it died.
Penny spun on her heel and walked quickly away.”
Source: Fear
“Lana looked at me like I’d just said I’d never watched Bring It On, or something.”
“Lana's going through them one at a time. Healing them. She's amazing."
Sam thought he heard something extra in Edilio's voice. "She's cute too, huh Edilio?"
Edilio's eyes went wide and started blushing. "She's just...you know..."
Sam slapped his shoulder. "Good luck with that."
"You think she...I mean, you know me, I'm just..." Edilio stammered his way to a stop.
"Dude, let's see if we can stay alive. Then you can ask her out or whatever.”
“Lana says J.P. makes Matt Damon from the Bourne movies look like Oliver from Hannah Montana”
Source: Crowning Glory
“Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.”
Source: Slouching towards Bethlehem
“Lance Armstrong admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career. He confessed in front of the most respected judge in the land, Oprah Winfrey.”
“Lance Armstrong deserves to be forgotten in cycling”
“Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling.”
“Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.”
“Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.”
“Lance Armstrong pushes the envelope in terms of the human experience. You can have a personal best, you can push your own envelope. For Lance, the person pushing him is him. The only person he's competing with, I think, is himself. To push that limit to the next step. There's a lot to learn from him. Lots.”
“Lance Armstrong showed up, and I started talking to him; I saw all these people with cancer who followed him to Paris for the Tour de France, and I saw the difference he was making in their lives. That put it together for me...having it be not so much about me, but [my being] a vehicle for it.”
“Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'”
“Lance Bass needs to quit worrying about outer space and celebrate life by learning how to kill his own food.”
“Lance Guest in The Last Starfighter had such integrity and held himself to such a high standard that I just wanted to raise your own standard to meet it. He is a hard-working, giving actor. He made me feel secure and better in my role opposite him.”
“Lancelot and Guenever were sitting at the solar window. An observer of the present day, who knew the Arthurian legend only from Tennyson and people of that sort, would have been startled to see that the famous lovers were past their prime. We, who have learned to base our interpretation of love on the conventional boy-and-girl romance of Romeo and Juliet, would be amazed if we could step back into the Middle Ages - when the poet of chivalry could write about Man that he had 'en ciel un dieu, par terre une deesse'. Lovers were not recruited then among the juveniles and adolescents: they were seasoned people, who knew what they were about. In those days people loved each other for their lives, without the conveniences of the divorce court and the psychiatrist. They had a God in heaven and a goddess on earth - and, since people who devote themselves to godesses must exercise some caution about the ones to whom they are devoted, they neither chose them by the passing standards of the flesh alone, nor abandoned it lightly when the bruckle thing began to fail.”
Source: The Candle in the Wind