#once

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#asked #bbc #book #english #favorite

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris. ↗

— A. J. Liebling

#american #any #aware #belong #breakthrough

It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#astounded #because #concerns #deep #find

The success and the failure are not my concern, but His. ↗

— Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#failure #his #success

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

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion. ↗

— Friedrich List

#arithmetical #concentration #effect #geometrical #growth

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest. ↗

— John Lithgow

#be careful #careful #concerned #creatures #earth

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#comes #costume #embody #especially #language

They were concerned about the racial issue. They thought it was not a safe issue to go Asian, unfortunately. ↗

— Lucy Liu

#asian #concerned #go #issue #racial

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#contingency #disconcerting #everything #happens #me