#era

It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#bad taste #being #funeral #like #perpetual

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#feel #happiness #life #long #matter

When you make movies based on real life, you try to exaggerate it. ↗

— Matthew Lawrence

#exaggerate #life #make #movies #real

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#books #certain #flashing #generals #irrational

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#desert #i #i can #outside #people

Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#anything #cameras #cooking #feel #front

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects. ↗

— Emma Lazarus

#am #barriers #between #community #conscious

The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#background #broad #camera #format #intimate

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other. ↗

— Simon LeBon

#barriers #communicating #each #generations #language

I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet. ↗

— Greg LeMond

#charity #day #finished #group #i