#tate

The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#being #brought #comfort #draw #everyone

The only things that the United States has given to the world are skyscrapers, jazz, and cocktails. That is all. And in Cuba, in our America, they make much better cocktails. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#better #cocktails #cuba #given #jazz

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement. ↗

— Trent Lott

#apologize #choice #conveyed #could #discarded

Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God. ↗

— Trent Lott

#blue #both #defined #god #hollywood

My parents immigrated to the United States with $10 in their pocket and a belief that the America they had heard about really did exist as the land of opportunity. ↗

— Mia Love

#america #belief #did #exist #had

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

I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#every #highway #i #look #me

The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands. ↗

— Seth Low

#name #netherlands #states #taken #their

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#compromise #expedient #good #makes #often

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#firmly #highest #learns #lesson #progress