#hole

I got a lot of things that society had promised would make me whole and fulfilled - all the things that the culture tells you from preschool on will quiet the throbbing anxiety inside you - stature, the respect of colleagues, maybe even a kind of low-grade fame. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#colleagues #culture #even #fame #fulfilled

I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#bitter #carry #died #easier #great

On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, 'cause I'm known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing. ↗

— Joe Lando

#artist #besides #cause #commissioned #first

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#lamp #light #like #over #quotation

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#commerce #competition #every #moral #neighbour

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done. ↗

— Jonny Lang

#apparently #changing #disgruntled #done #i

The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#beat #civilized #common #create #events

Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#blog #comments #communication #fragmentary #harmless

I was brought up to believe that there is no such thing as failure as long as I'm trying my best. So I've had a 'blood, guts and glory' approach through my whole life. ↗

— Ali Larter

#believe #best #blood #brought #failure

The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike. ↗

— Gary Larson

#black #black hole #calendar #cartoon #daily