#les

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#ancient #bottom #depth #down #feet

What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches. ↗

— Adrian Lyne

#book #cliches #danger #i #i think

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#essentially #i #language #make #me

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons. ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#drum #gave #i #lessons #me

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#been #before #each #had #him

The greatest success is creating whatever you want without conditions. I don't do commissions unless I really want to, because it's like having a job. ↗

— Richard MacDonald

#commissions #conditions #creating #greatest #having

That boundless freedom of childhood is so wonderful. ↗

— Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

#childhood #freedom #wonderful

I just think the more we're observed by other people, the less we can observe them in order to play them and find their true condition. ↗

— Logan Marshall-Green

#find #i #just #less #more

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

#destructiveness #disputes #few #few men #foe

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#baloney #charles #doing #fact #first