#uses

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve. ↗

— Alan Ladd

#autographs #hell #i #i think #movie

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#illumination #man #rather #statistics #support

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we? ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#always #away #be happy #drama #dull

I don't have to worry about any pop sensibility. I can write adult songs, and I don't have to worry about choruses and hook lines. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#adult #any #choruses #hook #i

Vegetation is the basic instrument the creator uses to set all of nature in motion. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#creator #instrument #motion #nature #set

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time. ↗

— Mary Leakey

#glance #human #intensely #irregularity #left

There is no medical proof that television causes brain damage - at least from over five feet away. In fact, TV is probably the least physically harmful of all the narcotics known to man. ↗

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

#brain #brain damage #causes #damage #fact

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#body #causes #change #changed #changes

I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night. ↗

— Adam Levine

#every #every night #houses #i #know

When I saw houses in Palmdale going for $500K, I knew something was wrong. If you got foreclosed, I don't feel sorry for you! ↗

— Tom Leykis

#going #got #houses #i #knew