Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lionel Trilling

The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.

Lionel Trilling

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Lion Feuchtwanger

I have always made an effort to render every detail of my reality with the greatest accuracy; but I have never paid attention to whether my presentation of historical facts was an exact one.

Linford Christie

Robert Fox is real good! Enough said!

Lindsey Wixson

Real success is not, like, materialistic. It's being where you want to be when you want to be, just living your life how you feel, having an ultimate goal and being able to accomplish it.

Lindsey Vonn

I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.

Linus Torvalds

With software, you really can replicate and do a lot of very real and active development in parallel, and actually try it out and see what works.

Linus Torvalds

Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

Linus Torvalds

OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.

Linus Torvalds

Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

Linus Torvalds

So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.

Linus Torvalds

In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.

Linus Torvalds

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

Lindsay Davenport

I wasn't a perfect thing at 17. I didn't have confidence. I was hunched over and real embarrassed, and I didn't want to be in the limelight. But it changed over time.

Lindsey Graham

Iran is part of the problem, not the solution. And the Russian government is ignoring reality.

Lindsey Graham

Social Security must be preserved and strengthened. But we need to be candid about the costs and willing to make the tough choices that real reform will require.

Lindsey Graham

I believe climate change is real, but I reject the cap and trade solution of John - of, you know, of Al Gore. He's made a religion. It's a problem.

Lindsay Lohan

I just feel as though it's become a situation where people have manifested this caricature of who I am, and they act as if there's no real person inside of it.

Lindsay Lohan

As sick as it sounds, a reality show might help, actually. At least then people could get the truth.

Linda Ronstadt

Cocaine made my nose bleed right away. I thought why do I need a nose bleed? It would make me real nervous and talk really fast. I'm already pretty good at talking too fast. I thought, "Why do I need that?"

Linda Ronstadt

Cocaine made people deaf, it made people dead and it made people real obnoxious.

Linda Ronstadt

Your musical soul is like facets of a jewel, and you stick out one facet at a time ... (and) I tend to work real hard on whatever it is I do, to get it up to speed, up to a professional level. I tend to bury myself in one thing for years at a time.

Linda Howard

I’m going to go," he said. "All right." He didn’t move. Then: "I don’t want to." "Do it anyway." He chuckled. "You’re a hard woman, Faith Devlin." "Hardy." "I didn’t know him. He isn’t real to me. Did you love him?" "Yes." But not the way I love you. Never like that.

Linda Howard

I have a real low tolerance for parasites, and you're so close to the limit that I'm already reaching for the flea powder.

Lin Shaye

As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in.

Linda Evans

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

Linda Evans

After Dynasty, I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is outrageous.

Linda Cardellini

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

Linda Cardellini

I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.

Linda Cardellini

I think the hardest thing about the part is the responsibility that you feel playing something that is so real and resonant in our times. There are people coming home right now with those stories, and I'm just an actress pretending to be that person. You hope that you can shed some light on somebody's predicament.

Linda Ellerbee

There is a gentle absurdity about Washington, D.C., and it is easy to develop affection for the place, if you can forget that the consequences of what goes on there are real, whereas what goes on there may not be.

Linda Evangelista

In photos, I don't know who the real me is - it's all pretend, just pretend. There's not much of myself in my work. If I'm looking in the mirror and I'm working, I'm looking at my make-up and my hair. It's not the same as looking at myself.

Lincoln Steffens

Care like hell! Sit around the bars and drink, and pose, and pretend, all you want to, but in reality, deep down underneath, care like hell.