#lap

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry. ↗

— John Lennon

#clap #hands #jewelry #just #people

As soon as I got the Nobel Prize my back collapsed and I was in hospital. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#collapsed #got #hospital #i #nobel

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#expect #inside #labels #slap #talk

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#human world #i #i can #laptop #part

Men were only made into "men" with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally "a man" any more than the woman. He has to be propped up into that position with some ingenuity, and is always likely to collapse. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#any #collapse #difficulty #even #great

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness. ↗

— Alphonsus Liguori

#beloved #caress #child #entirely #feed

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#beings #beliefs #biographies #collapses #determined

According to the standard model billions of years ago some little quantum fluctuation, perhaps a slightly lower density of matter, maybe right where we're sitting right now, caused our galaxy to start collapsing around here. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#ago #around #billions #caused #collapsing

Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#advantage #available #calculation #energy #full

The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#bits #current #higher #information #laptop