#ak

For the will and not the gift makes the giver. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#giver #makes #will

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#anymore #books #breakthrough #building #called

I used to like to break into other people's houses and sit in their rooms. I found it very comforting to be in someone's empty house. ↗

— Jared Leto

#comforting #empty #found #house #houses

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#find #given #i #mind #myself

Germans don't speak in a German accent, they just speak German. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#german #germans #just #speak

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#been #flourish #genius #growth #into

Friedensliebe zeigt sich gerade darin, daß man seine Heimat nicht vergißt und eben deshalb entschlossen ist, alles zu tun, um immer in Frieden miteinander zu leben." [Ansprache am 8. Mai 1985 in der Gedenkstunde im Plenarsaal des Deutschen Bundestages] ↗

— Richard von Weizsäcker

#peace #peacemaking #home

Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it. ↗

— Huey Lewis

#god #i #lark #living #make

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#because #bloodstream #break #commit #commitment

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#citizenship #discontent #doctrines #good #government