#ows

There are lesbians, God knows... if you came up through lesbian circles in the forties and fifties in New York... who were not feminist and would not call themselves feminists. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#came #circles #feminist #feminists #fifties

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#compete #every #every man #everything #expert

He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign. ↗

— Louis XI

#knows #reign #who

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#bet #care #end #heaven #i

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it. ↗

— James Lovelock

#climate #could #fast #hot #jump

China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution. ↗

— James Lovelock

#aspirations #caps #china #emit #gases

Yes, it's a very difficult thing to do, to promote a record, do television shows, and to still want to remain private, it's really quite difficult to explain to people what you're trying to do. I mean I'd actually quite like to be a recluse, but you know, you've got to promote the record as well. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#cult thing #difficult #difficult thing #explain #got

If a hit came along, I wouldn't be unhappy about that. But I'm a bit too old for that now-doing videos and all those types of TV shows. I've kind of done all that, in the '70s. ↗

— Nick Lowe

#along #bit #came #done #hit

Freedom is the only law which genius knows. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#genius #knows #law #only #which

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#does #genius #grows #life #never