#lea

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts. ↗

— David Leavitt

#artist #ball #bouncing #boy #competitive

In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years. ↗

— Aleksandr Lebed

#build #democracy #forty #forty years #generations

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#distorts #fall #illness #impossible #love

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#clean #enough #how #leave #new

My ambitions were already very clearly fixed by the time I was 6 or 7. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#by the time #clearly #fixed #i #time

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn. ↗

— Charles Lederer

#existing #find #important #knowledge #learn

When I'm not acting, I do like to take a year off at a time, at least if I can, just in order to keep acting exciting - otherwise I get bored very quickly. ↗

— Heath Ledger

#bored #exciting #get #i #i can

Yes, I love white, and I'd wear it all the time if I could. Some people think I have an issue with cleanliness, but to me it's just so pretty. ↗

— Sandra Lee

#could #i #i love #if i could #issue

They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments. ↗

— Anna Lee

#beautiful #because #comments #elegant #gown

Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore. ↗

— Bill Lee

#baseball #fundamentals #games #kids #learn