#them

I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#any #bonfire #bring #crown #disrespect

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used. ↗

— David Lehman

#dictate #electrons #enter #field #fixed

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#analysis #anticipating #comes #company #final

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across. ↗

— Mike Leigh

#accidents #across #also #characters #film

It was a very hard life. As I got older, the family was depending very much on me. My two older brothers got married, so they had their own families depending on them. I had seven people relying on me, so I worked in a grocery store. ↗

— Martin Lel

#depending #families #family #got #grocery

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#old #our #pleasures #recall #refine

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#children #give #i #protect #their

It's a very telling thing when you have children. You have to be there for them, you've got to set an example, when you're not sure what your example is, and anyway the world is changing so fast you don't know what is appropriate anymore. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#anyway #appropriate #changing #children #example

I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now. ↗

— Donna Leon

#because #book #books #happens #i

I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too! ↗

— Tea Leoni

#clothes #dress #else #going #i