#land

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#absurdly #all things #become #beneath #earth

The land of Ireland for the people of Ireland. ↗

— James Larkin

#ireland #land #people

I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#america #between #british #canada #choose

The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#dignity #england #escape #hard #honor

The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here. ↗

— Richard Leakey

#capital #capital investment #cattle #cow #fertile

I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am. ↗

— Anna Lee

#america #been #england #i #i am

When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday. ↗

— Richard Lester

#beginning #came #commercial #doing #easy

The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany. ↗

— Friedrich List

#children #crippled #fatherland #germany #i

When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#call #garland #judy #judy garland #just

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#been #both #central #coasts #containing