#pi

You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#british #british empire #could #disappeared #empire

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#experience #remember #something #you

The book is openly a kind of spiritual autobiography, but the trick is that on any other level it's a kind of insane collage of fragments of memory. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#autobiography #book #collage #fragments #insane

I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth. ↗

— Jared Leto

#around #artists #celebrated #child #clear

It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#colors #consult #created #decorator #god

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#opposite #say #simple #something #stupid

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself. ↗

— Sam Levenson

#by-product #cannot #itself #pursue #you

You can be young and still have views and opinions. ↗

— Joanna Noelle Levesque

#still #views #you #young

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients. ↗

— Carl Levin

#cannot #damage #escape #even #hospitals

It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree. ↗

— Barry Levinson

#both #conversation #disagree #finding #nonsensical