Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lawrence Summers

With uncertainty in oil markets, a buildup of speculative pressures and the large U.S. current account deficit, there is a real possibility that Paulson's crisis-management skills will be tested.

Laz Alonso

You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don't necessarily have to be the stereotypical bad guy to still do bad things.

Lawrence Wright

Churches are tax exempt because they are supposed to provide a public good. To prove that good to the IRS, churches arent supposed to hoard their money. They are supposed to spend it on goods and services for the faithful. Under this pretense, the church has made massive investments in tax free real estate all over the world. And when it comes to labor costs, they are almost free.

Lawrence Wright

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

Lawrence Welk

I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great crowds of people, playing my accordion.

Layne Staley

I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.

Layne Staley

We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.

Lauren Beukes

Only other people can make you feel real.

Lauren Beukes

It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.

Laura Wade

I don't like writing with real people in mind.

Lauren Bacall

the real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.

Lauren Bacall

I like to work with really good professional people - anyone with real talent.

Lauren Bacall

A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

Laurell K. Hamilton

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

Laurell K. Hamilton

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people

Laurell K. Hamilton

True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

Laurell K. Hamilton

[T]hese last few days where I've moped around damn near depressed for real, because of people who do not exist. Not really. I can buy them Christmas presents, but there is no way to send them. Sometimes I feel like I should be able to walk into the next room and there they will be, but they won't. These people do not exisit as flesh and blood, but there are different kinds of reality, and there are days when imagination feels very, very real.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.

Laurell K. Hamilton

He looked less handsome without the smile and glow in his eyes, but he also seemed more real. Being real will get me into trouble faster than any amount of charm.

Laurell K. Hamilton

A little boy who's discovered the monster under the bed is actually real, and it's screwing Mommy.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.' - Chang Bibi to Anita

Lars Leijonborg

Reality is our best friend - everything indicates that nuclear power should be used more.

Lasse Hallstrom

To see my wife getting inspired from my notes and thoughts, going in the direction I wanted, and have her surprise me with wonderful choices was a real treat.

Lasse Hallstrom

[Depp] has real ambitions, but he is deeply afraid of being considered pretentious.

Lane Kirkland

The plain truth is that labor is the chief representative force that keeps the real special interests from dominating American political life.

Lance Secretan

We live under the illusion that organizations are 'them' when, in reality, they are 'us.' If we wish to work in evolved organizations, we must each be the first to start the journey.

Lance Reddick

The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.

Landon Donovan

If you let the reality of the business side get to you, it can turn you, and that's not good at all.

Langston Hughes

O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.

Kyra Sedgwick

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

Kyra Sedgwick

Global climate change is real. The legislative branch of our government is our last line of defense against pollution which is why I am so grateful to have the NRDC making our voice heard.

Kyra Sedgwick

I have too much respect for the characters I play to make them anything but as real as they can possibly be. I have a great deal of respect for all of them, otherwise I wouldn't do them. And I don't want to screw them by not portraying them honestly.