#stood

I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened. ↗

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

#before #could #enlightened #had #i

In the end, I do think it's insulting to men and women to insist that they fit a certain profile. I never understood that. ↗

— Helmut Lang

#end #fit #i #i do #in the end

I never stood in a public house bar and alcoholic drink never touched my lips. ↗

— James Larkin

#bar #drink #house #i #lips

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#better understood #by-product #debate #information #precondition

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#events #images #news #propaganda #reporting

I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#changes #come #every #folded #got

You can't complain about the pressures, the paparazzi, the madness. Because that is the job. I've always understood that's the deal. ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#always #because #complain #deal #i

We shall never be understood or respected by the English until we carry our individuality to extremes, and by asserting our independence, become of sufficient consequence in their eyes to merit a closer study than they have hitherto accorded us. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#asserting #become #carry #closer #consequence

I became interested in making books, starting about 1965, when I did the Serial Project #1, deciding that I needed a small book to show how the work could be understood and how the system worked. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#became #book #books #could #deciding

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#like #misunderstood #who #writes