#eve

The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#behind #doing #dream #fortune #going

All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life. ↗

— Juliette Lewis

#never #prepares #reality #schooling #you

When you look back in history and see other fighters coming back, it's never really been good for them. ↗

— Lennox Lewis

#been #coming #fighters #good #history

Because a football game is just sixty minutes, but I'm training six, seven hours in every day. So, going for sixty minutes becomes easy. More importantly, I think that your muscles mature and can move in all different directions. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#because #becomes #day #different #different directions

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters. ↗

— Demetri Martin

#ever #getting #hanged #i #just

With a little bit of luck, you'll never work! ↗

— Alan Jay Lerner

#little #little bit #luck #never #work

And there was a movement afoot to take another year off, and if we had been able to do that, and rethink everything, I think when we came back it would have been very different. ↗

— Phil Lesh

#another #back #been #came #different

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move. ↗

— Max Lerner

#bed #before #best #between #distinguish

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolute truth, but only man's frail and human effort to approach the truth. To reject the word is to reject the human search. ↗

— Max Lerner

#absolute truth #approach #book #crime #effort

The problem of freedom in America is that of maintaining a competition of ideas, and you do not achieve that by silencing one brand of idea. ↗

— Max Lerner

#america #brand #competition #freedom #idea