#ban

I didn't write about my mother much in the third year after she died. I was still trying to get my argument straight: When her friends or our relatives wondered why I was still so hard on her, I could really lay out the case for what it had been like to be raised by someone who had loathed herself, her husband, even her own name. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#after #argument #been #case #could

Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#age #bane #childhood #indulgence #oil

My dad was good friends with the Bad Medicine Blues Band - one of the only blues bands in Fargo, as you can imagine! He took me out to see them play when I was 12 years old and I was really inspired by their guitar player, Ted Larsen. ↗

— Jonny Lang

#band #bands #blues #dad #fargo

The best kind of kinky sex is to have kinky sex with your wife or husband, the person you love. ↗

— Frank Langella

#husband #kind #kinky #love #person

My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#france #general #husband #somewhere

For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#been #begin #big #big bang #billion

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#banality #endless #erected #order #overcome

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#art #bandit #bear #book #crowd

This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn't pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#acting #again #always #banging #belt

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#began #big #big band #charlie #christian