#pear

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#already #appear #consent #know #many

When you suddenly appear on the scene and you are the new face, everything centers on you. I experienced this in my mid-20s and I found it rather hard. ↗

— Jude Law

#centers #everything #experienced #face #found

I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats. ↗

— Irving Layton

#best #genius #i #i am #keats

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable. ↗

— Louis Leakey

#any #back #behind #bullet #crocodile

I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#becomes #blur #crowd #crowds #disappear

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants. ↗

— Vivien Leigh

#just #like #place #sea #shakespeare

Pearls mean tears. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#pearls #tears

Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#beauty #dissatisfied #fashion #fuels #industries

Even in the realest American cinema that I see, there's still not that sense that this is reality. There's still that sense that you are watching a movie. And hopefully, if we did get our jobs right, that sense disappears when you watch this movie. ↗

— Joshua Leonard

#american cinema #cinema #did #disappears #even

The sense of war, the extraordinary bravery of the Allied armies, the numbers, the losses, the real suffering that disappears in time and commemorative oratory, are not marked out in any red guidebook of the emotions, but they are present if you look. ↗

— John Vinocur

#any #armies #bravery #disappears #emotions