#ld

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#bonds #books #elements #friendship #granted

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. ↗

— Astrid Lindgren

#although #been #being #children #enormous

Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#capacity #countries #developed #developed countries #developing

I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over. ↗

— John Walker Lindh

#any #chooses #control #every #exaggeration

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#classical #classical music #close #contemporary #doing

I would never have been a good scientist - my attention span was too short for that. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#attention span #been #good #i #never

When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers! ↗

— Gary Lineker

#beach #breathe #hard #i #i see

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#benefit #criminals #dead #doubt #impartially

I grew up in the Bronx where you would stay up late with your girlfriends, just being silly in our bedrooms, whatever. And I was always the clown. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#always #bedrooms #being #being silly #bronx

You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist. ↗

— Hamish Linklater

#body #build #grow #many #muscles