#din

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#annoying #audience #din #fraud #fright

My brother never had me to dinner in his life. ↗

— Burt Lancaster

#dinner #had #his #life #me

The federal government was responsible for building the levees, engineering the levees, and consequentially, the federal government is responsible for repairing the damage that has been done, which has not been completed yet. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#building #completed #damage #done #engineering

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan. ↗

— Tom Landry

#achieving #deciding #go #goal #how

Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still. ↗

— Dorothea Lange

#altering #holding #instant #life #out

What standards are upheld by the scientific community affect the community internally, and also affect its relations with society at large, including Congress. ↗

— Serge Lang

#also #community #congress #including #internally

Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and an understanding that conflict through debate is a powerful means of revealing truth. ↗

— Robert B. Laughlin

#conflict #course #debate #deep #gave

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#across #been #could #cures #difference

Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding. ↗

— Rick Larsen

#arab #arab world #china #economic #effectively

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood. ↗

— Erik Larson

#appropriate #back #help #i #i do