Quotes
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"Any girl can be
glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look
stupid"
Hedy Lamarr
"Wherever I have gone in
this country, I have found Americans."
Alf Landon (during a speech in his
presidential campaign against FDR)
"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have
teenagers of their own."
Doug Larson
"The gym teacher's name was Mr. Caruso. Mr. Caruso did not speak English. He spoke 'Gym.' One day I was playing
basketball and Mr. Caruso told me I would have to get an athletic supporter. He didn't express himself exactly
that way, though. He said, 'Hey, you, one day you're gonna go up for a rebound and the family jewels aren't gonna
go with ya.' I had no idea what he was talking about. Next day I showed up for practice without my watch and
my mezuzah. He said, 'Did ya take care of the family jewels?'
I said, 'I left 'em in my locker.'
Took us a half hour to revive Mr. Caruso."
Tommy Lasorda
"When you're in a slump, it's almost as if you look out at the field and it's one big glove."
Vance Law
"Failures are usually the most conceited of men."
D. H. Lawrence
"Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which
the soul makes."
D. H. Lawrence
"I
just love the French. They taste like chicken!"
Hannibal Lecter
"The Silence of the Lambs"
Murder is a crime. Describing
murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is.
Gershon Legman (b. 1917) American writer
"Life is what happens while you are making other plans."
John Lennon
"Our country has come a
long way: first we had George Washington, who couldn't tell a
lie. Then we had Bill Clinton, who couldn't tell the
truth. And now we have Al Gore, who can't tell the
difference..."
Jay Leno
"Al Gore visited a
bookstore today. He was shocked to find a book about
everything he has said in his campaign could be found in the
fiction section."
Jay Leno
"Al Gore ... he once was
pro-life, now he's pro-choice. He once was against gun
control, now he's for it. He claimed he invented the
Internet. Hey, Gore just needs to debate himself!"
Jay Leno
"Some
people are asking why did Beijing, China get the 2008 Olympics. The word is
China got the Olympics under the theory that giving a country the
international spotlight will help them correct their human rights
violations. It worked so well for Hitler in 1936..."
Jay
Leno
"Some Iraqis are looting the
Presidential Palaces, taking stationary, ashtrays, and even a Grand Piano.
Reporters say they haven't seen looting like this since Clinton's last day in
the White House!"
Jay Leno
I’m getting annoyed with these allies of ours. Like in Europe they’re calling the United States "The bully of the world." You think so? When you were a kid, do you remember the bully taking a vote before he kicked your ass? Here’s my question: If we’re the bully, how come everyone else gets to tease us, call us names, threaten to kill us and then we have to give them our lunch money?
Jay Leno
"I
don't know why people are surprised
that France won't
help
us get Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get
the
Germans out of France!"
Jay
Leno
"The
last time the French asked for 'more proof' it came marching into
Paris
under a German flag."
David
Letterman
"USA Today has come out with a new survey -
apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the
population."
David Letterman
"In America, a parent puts food in front of a child and says, 'Eat
it, it's good for you.' In Europe, the parent says, 'Eat it. It's
good!'"
John Levee, American journalist
"The last couple of years have been such a time of intense growth and perspective for me. I want to do something that really reflects the way I feel now."
Monica Lewinsky, on the reasoning that led her to help make an HBO documentary about the investigation into the scandal of her liaison with former President Clinton and its impact on the nation.
"Obviously crime pays, or
there'd be no crime."
G. Gordon Liddy
"I've been on so many blind dates,
I should get a free dog."
Wendy Liebman
"Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to
others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be
re-found through solitude."
Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh American aviator and writer
of "North to the Orient"
It
takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it
wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The heights by great men reached and kept. Were not
obtained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were
toiling upward in the night."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("The Ladder of St.
Augustine")
The heights by great men reached
and kept
Were not obtained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept
Were toiling upward in the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion
to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their
chosen field of endeavor."
Vince Lombardi
The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the
things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the
events that occur.
Vince Lombardi
It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it
wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mistakes are part of the dues one
pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren (1934- ) Italian Actress
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