#la

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#accumulate #allotted #anything #appetite #down

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#american #any #aware #belong #breakthrough

I took an acting class. After the first day, the teacher quit, so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian,' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry. ↗

— Wendy Liebman

#acting class #after #another #class #comedian

And on top of that, when we work together we have a wonderful working relationship we push each other we challenge each other we laugh 80% of the time that we are together we're very fortunate. ↗

— Alex Lifeson

#each #fortunate #laugh #other #push

Unfortunately, a lot of people are stupid. They take drugs. They get drunk and do all the wrong things in life. I just played it straight. ↗

— Bobby Vinton

#get #i #just #life #lot

You know, we have a long history of covering different periods of this band's development with a live record... a sort of live thing that would be done for three or four records, and that was the intention with this particular package. ↗

— Alex Lifeson

#covering #development #different #done #four

The other thing that happened was my last military assignment - this was in the air force; I had enlisted in order to avoid being drafted as a private, and of course I only practiced medicine or psychiatry in the air force so I was never in any kind of violent combat. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#air force #any #assignment #avoid #being

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame. ↗

— Gordon Lightfoot

#being #blame #call #dream #ever

Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#consult #doing #effectually #help #help others

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#elated #failure #i #success #will