Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lewis Thomas

Science will...produce the data..., but never the full meaning. For perceiving real significance, we shall need...most of all the brains of poets, [and] also those of artists, musicians, philosophers, historians, writers in general.

Lewis Thomas

We leave traces of ourselves wherever we go, on whatever we touch.

Lewis Thomas

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them - whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years - are still in their very earliest stages.

Lewis Thomas

The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.

Leslie Banks

I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.

Leslie Jamison

In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even the flaws they are admitting are somehow noble, or dysfunctional in an overly edgy, aesthetically pleasing way.

Leonard Orr

I noticed every time I spent a lot of time in the bathtub, I would just get fantastic realizations about myself, and they were so valuable and liberating.

Leonard Mlodinow

Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a very scary feeling when we are not. In fact, that´s what psychosis is - the feeling of detachment from reality and that you are not in control, and that´s a very frightening feeling for anyone."

Leonard Maltin

While it was occasionally done here or there, nobody else had a figurehead like Walt doing it. Jack Warner wasn't on TV. Walt was the boss, but he had a real public profile and he used it to his advantage. And he became a household face.

Len Wiseman

A lot of people don't put the numbers together correctly. But Underworld, honestly, the way it came about - the real way it came about - I took a meeting with Dimension, and they were looking to do just a werewolf movie, and I wasn't too interested in doing just a werewolf movie.

Lena Headey

With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.

Lena Headey

For me, horror movies are a real escape.

Lemmy Kilmister

The Beatles had an influence on everybody. You have to realize what an incredible explosion the Beatles were.

Lee Marvin

Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.

Lee Pace

I love that you work out relationships with people as you're filming just to get something real to play on screen.

Lee Konitz

Names and theoretical things don't occur to me. If they do, I'm not doing my real playing mode.

Lawrence Bender

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Your silent thoughts are like the roots of a plant. They remain hidden in the dark recesses of the earth, but from them stems the whole plant--its life and form, its strength and beauty. From them and through them the plant lives and dies. So, too, your thoughts, although hidden, are your real, vital force.

Lawrence Bossidy

Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.

Lawrence Block

This church was open and seemingly unattended, and it was a throwback in another way as well. The candles in the little side altars were real ones, actual wax candles that burned with an open flame. Lots of churches have switched over to electrified altars. You drop your quarter in the slot and a flame-shaped bulb goes on and stays on for your quarter's worth of time. It's like a parking meter, and if you stay too long they tow away your soul.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all 'bottom line' editors; everything depends on the money.

Lawrence Durrell

To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger.

Lawrence Durrell

It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

Lawrence Durrell

The artist's work constitutes the only satisfactory relationship he can have with his fellow men since he seeks his real friends among the dead and the unborn.

Lawrence Durrell

We should tackle reality in a slightly jokey way, otherwise we miss its point.

Laura Riding

Evil I had never found satisfactorily placeable as an integral element of the universal, or total, content of existence. Indeed, evil is evil just because there is no logical place for it, no room in reality for it. It is unreal, and yet real as something unreal.

Laura Prepon

Even in real life, I'd rather hang out with guys.

Larry Clark

At the end of the day, what I show is real life. I tell the truth. And the truth can be shocking.

Lady Starlight

I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.

Lady Randolph Churchill

You seem to have no real purpose in life and won't realize at the age of twenty-two that for a man life means work, and hard work if you mean to succeed...

Lactantius

Devils so work that things which are not, appear to men as if they were real.

Kylie Minogue

A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.

Kylie Minogue

I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don't live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine.