Ira Steven Behr (1953- )
Ira Steven Behr (born 23 October 1953, in New York City, New York), is an American television producer and screenwriter, most known for his work on Star Trek, especially Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, on which he served as showrunner and executive producer. He was the executive producer and showrunner on Crash and executive producer on Syfy's Alphas.
Acquisition
@ Never pay more for an acquisition than you have to.
Ira Steven Behr, Rule #3, The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition (1995)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Steven_Behr
Liza Minnelli (1946- )
Liza Minnelli (1946- )
Liza May Minnelli (born March 12, 1946) is an American actress and singer. She is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli.
Already established as a nightclub singer and musical theatre actress, she first attracted critical acclaim for her dramatic performances in the movies The Sterile Cuckoo (1969), and Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (1970); Minnelli then rose to international stardom for her appearance as Sally Bowles in the 1972 film version of the Broadway musical Cabaret, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She later made a great star turn in, Arthur (1981), co-starring with Dudley Moore (in the title role), and the great Sir John Gielgud, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as Arthur's snobbish but loveable butler.
While film projects such as Lucky Lady, A Matter of Time and New York, New York were less favorably received than her stage roles, Minnelli became one of the most versatile, highly regarded and best-selling entertainers in television, beginning with Liza with a Z in 1972, and on stage in the Broadway productions of Flora the Red Menace, The Act and The Rink. Minnelli also toured internationally and did shows such as Liza Minnelli: At Carnegie Hall, Frank, Liza & Sammy: The Ultimate Event, and Liza Live from Radio City Music Hall.
She starred in Liza's Back in 2002. She had guest appearances in the sitcom Arrested Development and had a small role in the movie The OH in Ohio, while continuing to tour internationally. In 2008/09, she performed the Broadway show Liza's at The Palace...! which earned a Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event.
Minnelli has won a total of four Tony Awards awards, including a Special Tony Award. She has also won an Oscar, an Emmy Award, two Golden Globes and a Grammy Legend Award for her contributions and influence in the recording field, along with many other honors and awards. She is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
Quotes·Quotation
Advice
¶ Reality is something you rise above.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liza_Minnelli
Liv Tyler (1977- )
Liv Tyler (1977- )
Liv Rundgren Tyler (born July 1, 1977) is an American actress and model. She is the daughter of Aerosmith's lead singer, Steven Tyler, and Bebe Buell, model and singer. Tyler began a career in modeling at the age of 14, but after less than a year she decided to focus on acting. She made her film debut in the 1994 film Silent Fall. She then appeared in supporting roles in Empire Records (1995), Heavy (1996) and That Thing You Do! (1996). Tyler later achieved critical recognition in the leading role in Stealing Beauty (1996). She followed this by starring in supporting roles including Inventing the Abbotts (1997) and Cookie's Fortune (1999).
Tyler achieved international recognition as a result of her portrayal of Elf maiden Arwen Undómiel in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy. She has appeared in an eclectic range of films, including the 2004 comedy Jersey Girl, the indie film Lonesome Jim (2005), the drama Reign Over Me (2007) and big-budget studio films such as Armageddon (1998), The Strangers (2008) and The Incredible Hulk (2008).
Tyler has served as a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Goodwill Ambassador for the United States since 2003, and as a spokesperson for Givenchy's line of perfume and cosmetics.
Quotes·Quotations by Liv Tyler
¶ And I did love you, and I still do. Only I didn't realize it was love, because it was more than love but it wasn't just some stupid feeling in my stomach like everything else and I'll never love anyone as much as you, and I hate you. I hate you!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liv_Tyler
Little Prince
Little Prince
Quotes·Quotations by Little Prince
Love
¶ You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.
Lindsay Monroe Messer (CSI: NY)
Lindsay Monroe Messer
Lindsay Messer (originally Lindsay Monroe) is a fictional character from the CBS crime drama CSI: NY, portrayed by actress Anna Belknap.
Quotes·Quotations by Lindsay Monroe Messer
Anna Belknap as Lindsay Monroe Messer from CSI: NY
¶ [All Access 2.21]
Lindsay Monroe: Enough with the dumbass, okay, Blake? Clothes you were wearing last night are being tested for gunshot residue. You were at the scene. You're wasting our time! (storms out of the room)
Danny Messer: Blake, sit tight for a while, all right? Reconsider your answer. (goes out after Lindsay) Montana! What's up? This guys about to fold, ease up. (grabbing Lindsay's arm)
Lindsay: (yanks her arm away) You know what, Danny? Maybe you should just handle this case by yourself, okay?
Danny: Mac's handling Stella's situation. All right? If he needs us, he'll let us know. But until then..
Lindsay: I just wish there was something we could do to help.
Danny: You know what Stella would say, what we could do to help the most is close this Russo case. All right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Monroe
Linda Ellerbee (1944- )
Linda Ellerbee (1944- )
Linda Ellerbee (born August 15, 1944) is an American journalist who is most known for several jobs at NBC News, including Washington, DC correspondent, host of the Nickelodeon network's Nick News. Her work on NBC News Overnight was recognized by the jurors of the duPont Columbia Awards as "possibly the best written and most intelligent news program ever."[1]
Quotes·Quotations by Linda Ellerbee
Belief
¶ If you believe in your heart that you are right, you must fight with all your might to do it your way. Only dead fish swim with the stream all the time.
References
[1]^ Encyclopedia of Television, 2nd Ed. 2004, Museum of Broadcast Communications, by Fitzroy Dearborn, Horace Newcomb (ed.), CRC Press, Boca Raton ISBN 1-57958-411-X
Linda Grayson
Linda Grayson
Quotes·Quotation
Food·Dieting
¶ There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate.
Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin
Quotes·Quotations by Lily Tomlin
Animal
@ The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Reality
¶
@ Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Quotes·Quotations by Lily Tomlin
Animal
@ The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Reality
¶
@ Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Lily Collins (1989- )
Lily Collins (1989- )
Lily Jane Collins (born 18 March 1989) is a British and American actress, model, and television personality.
Quotes·Quotations by Lily Collins
¶ Nathan, I've got something you need to see. (Karen to Nathan after finding Nathan's baby picture in the internet.)
¶ That's better than middle school.
¶ Definitely.
¶ Snow will have to do what snow does best. Snow will have to fall.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Collins
Li Bai (李白, 701-762)
Li Bai (李白, 701-762)
Li Bai (Li Pai; Chinese: 李白; pinyin: Lǐ Bái; Wade–Giles: Li3 Pai2, 701 – 762), also known as Li Bo (Li Po; pinyin: Lǐ Bó; Wade–Giles: Li3 Po2), was one of the most acclaimed poets in the history of Chinese poetry. He and his friend Du Fu (712-770) are the two most prominent figures in the flourishing of Chinese poetry in the mid-Tang Dynasty that is often called the "Golden Age."
Li Bai was a prolific and creative poet who stretched the rules of versification of his time. Around a thousand poems attributed to him are extant today.[1] Li Bai's poetry has been much esteemed from his lifetime through the present day in the Chinese culture area and in other parts of the world. Thirty-four of his poems are included in the canonical 18th century anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems.
Notes
[1]^ a b c d e Watson, 141
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Bai
Li Bai (Li Pai; Chinese: 李白; pinyin: Lǐ Bái; Wade–Giles: Li3 Pai2, 701 – 762), also known as Li Bo (Li Po; pinyin: Lǐ Bó; Wade–Giles: Li3 Po2), was one of the most acclaimed poets in the history of Chinese poetry. He and his friend Du Fu (712-770) are the two most prominent figures in the flourishing of Chinese poetry in the mid-Tang Dynasty that is often called the "Golden Age."
Li Bai was a prolific and creative poet who stretched the rules of versification of his time. Around a thousand poems attributed to him are extant today.[1] Li Bai's poetry has been much esteemed from his lifetime through the present day in the Chinese culture area and in other parts of the world. Thirty-four of his poems are included in the canonical 18th century anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems.
Notes
[1]^ a b c d e Watson, 141
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Bai
Li Keqiang (李克强, 1955- )
Li Keqiang (李克强, 1955- )
Li Keqiang (pinyin: Lǐ Kèqiáng; pronounced [lì kʰɤ̂tɕʰjɑ̌ŋ], born 1 July 1955) is a Chinese economist and the current Premier of the People's Republic of China and party secretary of the State Council. In his capacity as Premier, Li is China's head of government as well as the leading figure behind its economic policy. He is also the second ranked member of the CPC Politburo Standing Committee, the de facto highest decision-making body of the country. From 2008 to 2013, Li served as the First Vice-Premier under then-Premier Wen Jiabao. During this tenure, Li's official portfolio included economic development, price controls, finance, climate change, and macroeconomic management.[1]
Li rose through the party ranks through the Communist Youth League. From 1998 to 2004, Li served as the Governor of Henan and the province's Party secretary, and then the Liaoning party secretary, an office that made him first-in-charge in that province. Li is a leading figure in the "fifth generation" (Xi-Li Administration) of Communist Party leadership.
Quotes·Quotations by Li Keqiang
History
¶ By looking into a mirror, one can make sure that he is dressed properly. Only by facing history squarely, can one creat a future. [the Potsdam Conference in the state of Brandenburg, Germany (May 2013)]
¶ The forces of justice and the Chinese people -- and the people elsewhere who love peace -- will never accept any comments or actions that seek to deny or glorify the past history of fascist aggression. [May 27, 2013]
References
[1]^ "China's new top Party leaders make debut". China.org.cn. 2012-11-15. Retrieved 2012-11-22.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Keqiang
Lex Luthor (Smallville)
Lex Luthor, Smallville
Lex Luthor is a fictional character from the television series Smallville. He was a series regular from the pilot episode until the season seven finale, and has been played continuously by Michael Rosenbaum, with various actors portraying Lex as a child throughout the series. The character of Lex Luthor, first created for comic books by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in 1940 as archnemesis of Superman, was adapted to television in 2001 by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar—this is only the third time the character has been adapted to a live action television series. The character has also appeared in various literature based on the Smallville television series, none of which directly continues from or into the television episodes.
In this 2001 series, Lex Luthor is sent to Smallville, by his father Lionel Luthor, to run the local LuthorCorp fertilizer plant. After driving his car off a bridge, he is saved by Clark Kent and quickly develops a new friendship with the farm boy. As the series unfolds, Lex's curiosity about Clark and all things connected to Clark ultimately destroys their friendship. Lex's relationship with his father is tension-filled from the start of the show, and eventually comes to an end when Lex murders his father in an effort to discover Clark's secret.
The Smallville incarnation of Lex Luthor is first introduced as a morally ambiguous character, who walks a fine line between good and evil. Lex is an inquisitive person, and it is that curiosity that drives him to attain as much power as possible as the series progresses—it will ultimately lead him to being Clark's greatest enemy. Michael Rosenbaum has been nominated for and won a Saturn Award and a Teen Choice Award for his portrayal of Lex Luthor on Smallville. After seven seasons as a series regular, Michael Rosenbaum left the show, but reprised the role for the 2-hour series finale.
Quotes·Quotation
Friend·Friendship
¶ Trust me Clark. Our friendship is going to be the stuff of legends.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_Luthor_(Smallville)
Lew Wallacee (1827-1905)
Lew Wallacee (1827-1905)
Lewis "Lew" Wallace (April 10, 1827 – February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician and author. Wallace served as governor of the New Mexico Territory at the time of the Lincoln County War and worked to bring an end to the fighting.
Of his novels and biographies, he is best known for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling book since its publication, and called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century."[1] It has been adapted four times for films.
Quotes·Quotations by Lew Wallacee
Beauty
¶ Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
Notes
[1]^ a b c d "Ben-Hur: The Book That Shook the World", Humanities, November/December 2009 Volume 30, Number 6, Accessed 2010-04-20
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Wallace
Leslie Nielsen (1926-2010)
Leslie Nielsen (1926-2010)
Leslie William Nielsen, OC (11 February 1926 – 28 November 2010) was a Canadian and naturalized American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in more than one hundred films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying more than 220 characters. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Nielsen enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and worked as a disc jockey before receiving a scholarship to Neighborhood Playhouse. Making his television debut in 1948, he quickly expanded to over 50 television appearances two years later. Nielsen made his film debut in 1956, and began collecting his roles in dramas, westerns, and romance films between the 1950s and the 1970s. Nielsen's performance in the films Forbidden Planet and The Poseidon Adventure received positive reviews as a serious actor, although he is primarily known for his comedic roles during the 1980s and the early 1990s.
Although Nielsen's acting career crossed a variety of genres in both television and films, his deadpan delivery in Airplane! marked a turning point in his career, one that would make him, in the words of film critic Roger Ebert, "the Olivier of spoofs." Nielsen enjoyed further success with The Naked Gun film series, based on an earlier short-lived television series Police Squad! in which he also starred. Nielsen's portrayal of comedic characters seemingly oblivious to (and complicit in) their absurd surroundings gave him a reputation as a comedian. In the final years of his life, Nielsen appeared in numerous spoof and parody films, many of which were met poorly by critics, but performed well in box office and home media releases. Nielsen married four times and had two daughters from his second marriage. Nielsen was recognized with a variety of awards throughout his career, and was inducted into the Canada and Hollywood Walks of Fame.
Quotes·Quotations by Leslie Nielsen
¶ I am serious...and don't call me Shirley.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Nielsen
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Russian: Лев Никола́евич Толсто́й, pronounced [lʲev nʲɪkɐˈlaɪvʲɪtɕ tɐlˈstoj]) (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist fiction. Many consider Tolstoy to have been one of the world's greatest novelists. Tolstoy is equally known for his complicated and paradoxical persona and for his extreme moralistic and ascetic views, which he adopted after a moral crisis and spiritual awakening in the 1870s, after which he also became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer.
His literal interpretation of the ethical teachings of Jesus, centering on the Sermon on the Mount, caused him in later life to become a fervent Christian anarchist and anarcho-pacifist. His ideas on nonviolent resistance, expressed in such works as The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were to have a profound impact on such pivotal twentieth-century figures as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Quotes·Quotation
Advice
¶ Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Beauty
¶ What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
Happiness
¶ If you want to be happy, be.
***
@ The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth. [Sevastopol in May (1855), Ch. 16]
@ The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him. [The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894) Ch. III]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Nikolayevitch_Tolstoy
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)
Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)
Felice Leonardo "Leo" Buscaglia Ph.D. (31 March 1924 – 12 June 1998), also known as "Dr Love," was an author and motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California.
Quotes·Quotation by Leo Buscaglia
Advice
¶ Those who think they know everything have no way of finding out they don't.
Emotions
¶ Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Love
¶ Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Buscaglia
Leonardo DiCaprio (1974- )
Leonardo DiCaprio (1974- )
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio (pronounced /dɨˈkæpri.oʊ/; born November 11, 1974) is an American actor and film producer. As an actor, he has been nominated for the Golden Globe Award eight times and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Aviator (2004). He has also been nominated by the Academy Awards, Screen Actors Guild and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, DiCaprio started his career by appearing in television commercials prior to landing recurring roles in TV series such as the soap opera Santa Barbara and the sitcom Growing Pains in the early 1990s. He made his film debut in the comedic sci-fi horror film Critters 3 (1991) and received first notable critical praise for his performance in This Boy's Life (1993). DiCaprio obtained recognition for his subsequent work in supporting roles in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) and Marvin's Room (1996), as well as leading roles in The Basketball Diaries (1995) and Romeo + Juliet (1996), before achieving international fame in James Cameron's Titanic (1997).
Since the 2000s, DiCaprio has been nominated for awards for his work in such films as Catch Me If You Can (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), Blood Diamond (2006), The Departed (2006), and Revolutionary Road (2008). His latest films Shutter Island (2010) and Inception (2010) rank among the biggest commercial successes of his career. DiCaprio owns a production company named Appian Way Productions, whose productions include the films Gardener of Eden (2007) and Orphan (2009). A committed environmentalist, DiCaprio has received praise from environmental groups for his activism.
Quotes·Quotation by Leonardo DiCaprio
As Jack Dawson, Titanic
¶ I'm the king of the world!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_DiCaprio
Leo Rosten (1908-1997)
Leo Rosten (1908-1997)
Leo Calvin Rosten (April 11, 1908 - February 19, 1997) was born in Łódź, Russian Empire (now Poland) and died in New York City. He was a teacher and academic, but is best known as a humorist in the fields of scriptwriting, storywriting, journalism and Yiddish lexicography.
Quotes·Quotation
Advice
¶ If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Rosten
Leezar (Your Highness, 2011)
Leezar from Your Highness (2011)
Quotes·Quotations by Leezar
Justin Theroux as Leezar from Your Highness (2011)
¶ Belladonna: Look at yourself. Why would anyone ever want to be with you?
Leezar: Hm, I'm not sure really. Oh yeah, perhaps because I'm rich, I live in a castle and I can do magic.
Lola Lee (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, 1938)
Lola Lee (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, 1938)
Quotes·Quotations by Lola Lee
Quotes·Quotations by Phyllis Brooks as Lola Lee from Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
***
¶
Quotes·Quotations by Lola Lee
Quotes·Quotations by Phyllis Brooks as Lola Lee from Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
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Lee Hyeri (1994- )
Lee Hyeri (1994- )
Lee Hyeri (born June 9, 1994; Hangul: 이혜리), better known by her stage name Hyeri (Hangul: 혜리), is a South Korean idol singer. She is best known as a sub-vocalist of the girl group, Girl's Day under Dream Tea Entertainment.
Quotes·Quotations by Lee Hyeri
***
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hyeri
LEE Hi (1996- )
LEE Hi (1996- )
Lee Ha Yi (Hangul: 이하이, born September 23, 1996), also known by her stage name Lee Hi, is a South Korean singer. She is known as the SBS's "K-Pop Star" runner-up of 2011. Her debut single "1.2.3.4", was released on October 28, 2012 and reached #1 with the first-week sales of 667,549 downloads.[1][2] She's often called Monster Rookie because she has won many awards despite of her young age and little experience.
Her first full-length album First Love was released in two parts. Part 1 was released on On March 7, 2013 and Part 2 was released on March 28, 2013.[3]
Quotes·Quotations by LEE Hi
Love
¶ Every rose has its thorn.
References
[1]^ "Gaon Chart's download". gaon. Retrieved November 8, 2012.
[2]^ "Lee Hi Offical Website".
[3]^ "Lee Hi unveils part 2 of her 1st album ‘First Love’". allkpop. Retrieved 20 April 2013.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Hi
LEE Kun-hee (1942- )
LEE Kun-hee (1942- )
Lee Kun-hee (born January 9, 1942) is Chairman of Samsung Electronics. He resigned on April 21, 2008 owing to Samsung Slush funds scandal, but returned on March 24, 2010. Lee has a degree in economics from Waseda University in Tokyo and attended an MBA course at George Washington University in the United States in 1966 without earning a degree. He speaks Korean, English, and Japanese. In 1996, Lee became a member of the International Olympic Committee. With an estimated net worth of $7.4 billion, he and his family rank among the Forbes richest people in the world. He is the third son of Samsung Group founder Lee Byung-chull.
An avid sportsman, he was instrumental in the successful third attempt to bring the 2018 Winter Olympics to Pyeongchang.
Quotes
"One genius can feed millions of others. For the upcoming era where creativity will be the most important driver of business success, we need to hire the best. The economic value of one genius is more than $1 billion."
"The business world has changed significantly. It is becoming increasingly difficult to foresee what sectors will prosper or opportunities will arise in the future. But if you hire the best and brightest, you will solve whatever issues arise in the future."
"It is difficult to understand the true dimensions of a problem or a situation when so many things seem to be happening on the surface. This is why I urge my employees to analyze a given situation from various perspectives. This way of thinking allows one to see the true aspects of a situation, which, in turn, allows one to respond wisely."
"Firing a CEO because his financial performance was poor is simply a bad decision. I've encountered several situations where a CEO once performed poorly in one sector then went on to perform much better elsewhere. This is one of the reasons Japanese corporations were able to compete successfully against US corporations."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kun-hee
LEE Bo-young (1979- )
LEE Bo-young (1979- )
Lee Bo-young (born 12 January 1979) is a South Korean actress and model.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Bo-young
Lea Michele (1986- )
Lea Michele (1986- )
Lea Michele Sarfati (born August 29, 1986), known professionally as Lea Michele, is an American actress and singer, best known for her performance as Rachel Berry on the Fox television series Glee.
Michele began working professionally as a child actress on Broadway in productions such as Les Misérables, Ragtime, and Fiddler on the Roof. In 2006 she originated the role of Wendla in the Broadway musical Spring Awakening.
Quotes·Quotations by Lea Michele
¶ Now-a-days being anonymous is worse than being poor. Fame is the most important thing in our culture now. And if there is one thing I've learned it is that no one is just going to hand it to you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea_Michele
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
James Russell Lowell (/ˈloʊəl/; February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside.
Quotes·Quotations by James Russell Lowell
Appearance
¶ A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Russell_Lowell
Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays.
Quotes·Quotations by ***
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Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays.
Quotes·Quotations by ***
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Arthur Ashe
Arthur Ashe
Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. (10 July 1943 – 6 February 1993) was a prominent African American tennis player and an AIDS activist.
@ True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
As quoted in Worth Repeating : More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, p. 169
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Ashe
Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. (10 July 1943 – 6 February 1993) was a prominent African American tennis player and an AIDS activist.
@ True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
As quoted in Worth Repeating : More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes (2003) by Bob Kelly, p. 169
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_Ashe
Lawrence Walsh (Chinatown, 1974)
Lawrence Walsh from Chinatown (1974)
Quotes·Quotations by Lawrence Walsh
Joe Mantell as Lawrence Walsh from Chinatown (1974)
¶ Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Mantell
Layla Williams (Sky High, 2005)
Will's best friend since childhood. She is a pacifist, vegetarian, and feminist, and is able to animate and control plant life. Her mother's abilities are said to allow her to talk to animals, and her father is a normal human.
Danielle Panabaker as Layla Williams from Sky High (2005)
Now, I know it's just our first day, but I already can't wait to graduate and start saving mankind. And womankind. And animalkind.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_High_(2005_film)
Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)
Laurence J. Peter (1919-1990)
Dr. Laurence Johnston Peter (September 16, 1919 – January 12, 1990) was an educator and "hierarchiologist", best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter Principle.
Quotes·Quotations by Laurence J. Peter
Beauty
¶ Every girl should use beauty that Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_J._Peter
Laurence Olivier (1907-1989)
Laurence Olivier (1907-1989)
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM ( /ˈlɒrəns ɵˈlɪvi.eɪ/; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. One of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, he was the youngest actor to be knighted and the first to be elevated to the peerage. He married three times, to actresses Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright. Actor Spencer Tracy said that Olivier was 'the greatest actor in the English-speaking world'.
Olivier played a wide variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to modern American and British drama. He was the first artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain and its main stage is named in his honour. He is regarded by some to be the greatest actor of the 20th century, in the same category as David Garrick, Richard Burbage, Edmund Kean and Henry Irving in their own centuries. Olivier's AMPAS acknowledgments are considerable: twelve Oscar nominations, with two awards (for Best Actor and Best Picture for the 1948 film Hamlet), plus two honorary awards including a statuette and certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he received. Additionally, he was a three-time Golden Globe and BAFTA winner.
Olivier's career as a stage and film actor spanned more than six decades and included a wide variety of roles, from the title role in Shakespeare's Othello and Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night to the sadistic Nazi dentist Christian Szell in Marathon Man and the kindly but determined Nazi-hunter in The Boys from Brazil. A High church clergyman's son who found fame on the West End stage, Olivier became determined early on to master Shakespeare, and eventually came to be regarded as one of the foremost Shakespeare interpreters of the 20th century. He continued to act until the year before his death in 1989. Olivier played more than 120 stage roles: Richard III, Macbeth, Romeo, Hamlet, Othello, Uncle Vanya, and Archie Rice in The Entertainer. He appeared in nearly sixty films, including William Wyler's Wuthering Heights, Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake Is Missing, Richard Attenborough's Oh! What a Lovely War, and A Bridge Too Far, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth, John Schlesinger's Marathon Man, Daniel Petrie's The Betsy, Desmond Davis' Clash of the Titans, and his own Henry V, Hamlet, and Richard III. He also preserved his Othello on film, with its stage cast virtually intact. For television, he starred in The Moon and Sixpence, John Gabriel Borkman, Long Day's Journey into Night, Brideshead Revisited, The Merchant of Venice, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and King Lear, among others.
In 1999, the American Film Institute named Olivier among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, at number 14 on the list.
Quotes·Quotations by Laurence Olivier
¶ Is it safe?
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Lauren Bacall (1924- )
Lauren Bacall (1924- )
Lauren Bacall ( /ˌlɔrən bəˈkɔːl/; born Betty Joan Perske, September 16, 1924) is an American film and stage actress and model, known for her distinctive husky voice and sultry looks.
She first emerged as leading lady in the Humphrey Bogart film To Have And Have Not (1944) and continued on in the film noir genre, with appearances in Bogart movies The Big Sleep (1946) and Dark Passage (1947), as well as a comedienne in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) with Marilyn Monroe and Designing Woman (1957) with Gregory Peck. Bacall has also worked on Broadway in musicals, gaining Tony Awards for Applause in 1970 and Woman of the Year in 1981. Her performance in the movie The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination.
In 1999, Bacall was ranked #20 of the 25 actresses on the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars list by the American Film Institute. In 2009, she was selected by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to receive an Academy Honorary Award "in recognition of her central place in the Golden Age of motion pictures."
Quotes·Quotation by Lauren Bacall
Lauren Bacall as Marie Slim Browning from To Have and Have Not (1944)
¶ You know you don't have to act with me, Steve. You don't have to say anything, and you don't have to do anything. Not a thing. Oh, maybe just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow.
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Latins (Italic tribe)
Latins (Italic tribe)
The Latins (or Latini) were a people of ancient Italy who included the inhabitants of the early City of Rome. From ca. 1000 BC, the Latins inhabited the small part of the peninsula known to the Romans as Old Latium (Latium Vetus), that is, the region between the river Tiber and the promontory of Monte Circeo (ca. 60 mi or 100 km SE of Rome).
Latin Proverb
Appearance
¶ To the ass, or the sow, their own offspring appears the fairest in creation.
Beauty
¶ When the rose dies, the thorn is left behind.
Fortune
¶ Fortune and Venus help the bold.
Practice
¶ Practice makes perfect.
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Laozi (老子, 604 BC-?)
Laozi (老子, 604 BC-? )
Laozi (Chinese: 老子; pinyin: Lǎozǐ; Wade–Giles: Lao Tzu; also romanized as Lao Tse, Lao Tu, Lao-Tsu, Laotze, Laosi, Laocius, and other variations) was a philosopher of ancient China, best known as the author of the Tao Te Ching (often simply referred to as Laozi). His association with the Tao Te Ching has led him to be traditionally considered the founder of philosophical Taoism (pronounced as "Daoism"). He is also revered as a deity in most religious forms of Taoist philosophy, which often refers to Laozi as Taishang Laojun, or "One of the Three Pure Ones".
Laozi is an honorific title. Lao (老) means "venerable" or "old", such as modern Mandarin laoshi (老师), "teacher". Zi (子), Wade-Giles transliteration tzu, in this context is typically translated "master". Zi was used in ancient China as an honorific suffix, indicating "Master", or "Sir". In popular biographies, Laozi's given name was Er, his surname was Li (forming Li Er, 李耳) and his courtesy name was Boyang. Dan is a posthumous name given to Laozi, and he is sometimes referred to as Li Dan (李聃).
According to Chinese traditions, Laozi lived in the 6th century BCE. Historians variously contend that Laozi is a synthesis of multiple historical figures, that he is a mythical figure, or that he actually lived in the 5th–4th century BCE, concurrent with the Hundred Schools of Thought and Warring States Period.
A central figure in Chinese culture, both nobility and common people claim Laozi in their lineage. He was honored as an ancestor of the Tang imperial family, and was granted the title Taishang xuanyuan huangdi, meaning "Supreme Mysterious and Primordial Emperor". Xuanyuan and Huangdi are also, respectively, the personal and proper names of the Yellow Emperor. Throughout history, Laozi's work has been embraced by various anti-authoritarian movements.
Quotes·Quotation by Laozi
Advice
¶ 聖人處無為之事，行不言之教。
The sage manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his instructions without the use of speech. [道德經 002]
¶ 希言自然，故飄風不終朝，驟雨不終日。 [道德經 023]
Abstaining from speech marks him who is obeying the spontaneity of his nature. A violent wind does not last for a whole morning; a sudden rain does not last for the whole day.
¶ 善行無轍迹，善言無瑕讁；善數不用籌策；善閉無關楗而不可開，善結無繩約而不可解。 [道德經 027]
The skilful traveller leaves no traces of his wheels or footsteps; the skilful speaker says nothing that can be found fault with or blamed; the skilful reckoner uses no tallies; the skilful closer needs no bolts or bars, while to open what he has shut will be impossible; the skilful binder uses no strings or knots, while to unloose what he has bound will be impossible.
¶ 大直若屈，大巧若拙，大辯若訥。 [道德經 045]
The moat straightness seems crooked. The greatest skill seems clumsy, and the outstanding eloquence seems inarticulate.
¶ 是以聖人欲上民，必以言下之；欲先民，必以身後之。 [道德經 066]
So it is that the sage, wishing to be above men, puts himself by his words below them, and, wishing to be before them, places himself behind them.
Beginning
¶ 天下難事，必作於易，天下大事，必作於細。 [道德經 063]
All difficult things in the world are sure to arise from a previous state in which they were easy, and all great things from one in which they were small.
¶ 合抱之木，生於毫末；九層之臺，起於累土；千里之行，始於足下。 [道德經 064]
The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout; the tower of nine storeys rose from a small heap of earth; the journey of a thousand miles commenced with a single step.
Endurance
¶ There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed.
Female
¶ 谷神不死，是謂玄牝。 [道德經 006]
The valley spirit dies not, aye the same; The female mystery thus do we name.
Happiness
¶ Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of happiness.
Knowledge
¶ People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
Money
¶ To have little is to possess. To have plenty is to be perplexed.
Politics·Government
¶ 治大國若烹小鮮。
Govern a great powers as you would cook a small fish. - It is the best politics to keep hands off.
¶ He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lao-tzu
William Langland (1332-1386)
William Langland (1332-1386)
William Langland (ca. 1332 – ca. 1386) is the conjectured author of the 14th-century English dream-vision Piers Plowman.
Quotes·Quotations by William Langland
God
¶ Man proposes， God disposes.
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Landon Carter from A Walk to Remember
Landon Carter from A Walk to Remember
Shane West as Landon Rollins Carter
Quotes·Quotations by Landon Rollins Carter
Shane West as Landon Rollins Carter from A Walk to Remember (2002)
¶ Love is always patient and kind, it is never jealous; Love is never boastful or conceited; It is never rude or selfish, it does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth; It is always ready to excuse; to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end. [Love]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Walk_to_Remember
Shane West as Landon Rollins Carter
Shane West as Landon Rollins Carter from A Walk to Remember (2002)
¶ Love is always patient and kind, it is never jealous; Love is never boastful or conceited; It is never rude or selfish, it does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth; It is always ready to excuse; to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end. [Love]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Walk_to_Remember
Lana Lang (Smallville)
Lana Lang (Smallville)
Lana Lang is a fictional character on the television series Smallville. She has been a series regular since the pilot episode, and has been played continuously by Kristin Kreuk, with two other actresses having portrayed Lana Lang as a child and as an elderly woman. The character of Lana Lang, first created for comic books by Bill Finger and John Sikela in the 1950s as a romantic interest for Superboy, was adapted to television in 2001 by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. The character has also appeared in various literature based on the Smallville television series, none of which directly continues from or into the television episodes.
In Smallville, Lana is the love interest for Clark Kent, though, in the first season she is dating Whitney Fordman. By season two, with Whitney's departure, Lana and Clark begin to grow closer. Clark's dishonesty over the secrets he is hiding causes their relationship to end. Lana then grew closer to Lex Luthor. Eventually, Lana learns the truth about Clark and they get back together. After stealing a kryptonite-powered suit from Lex, Lana absorbs an enormous amount of kryptonite radiation, which prohibits her from getting too close to Clark, and she leaves Smallville for good, but vowed to continue to use her powers to preserve life.
Initially, Lana is characterized as the intelligent "girl next door". She eventually becomes a tragic figure in Smallville, as the decisions made by Clark and Lex change the character over the course of the show. As Gough explains, by the end of the sixth season, Lana has shown that she can beat Lex at his own games. Over the course of the show, Lana transition from the girl next door to a more "self-reliant young woman". Kreuk has been nominated by various awards for her portrayal of Lana Lang.
Quotes·Quotation
Friend·Friendship
¶ It's really not important because I think friendship is more worth than argument.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana_Lang_(Smallville)
Anthony Lake
Anthony Lake
William Anthony Kirsopp Lake, best known as Tony Lake, (born April 2, 1939) is the Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), author, academic, and former American diplomat, Foreign Service Officer, and political advisor. He has been a foreign policy advisor to many Democratic U.S. presidents and presidential candidates, and served as National Security Advisor under U.S. President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997. Lake is credited as being one of the individuals who developed the policy that led to the resolution of the Bosnian War. He also held the chair of Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C.
Quotes·Quotations by Anthony Lake
Advice
¶ I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have the party, but no one expects you to say very much."
[national security advisor, at University of Massachusettes, Amhurst, Graduation 1995]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Lake
Ladyhawk
Ladyhawk
Ladyhawk (Rosetta and Regina) is the shared codename of a fictional character in the Marvel Comics' series Spider-Girl. Their first names were revealed to be Rosetta and Regina in Amazing Spider-Girl #7; their last names are still unknown.
Quotes·Quotations by Ladyhawk
Responsibility
¶ Spider-Girl: Wellllll, I have these real nifty super-powers…And, like the man says, with great power--there should also come---great, uhhh, responsibility.
Ladyhawk: Should…but rarely does!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladyhawk_(comics)
Lady Lou (She Done Him Wrong)
Lady Lou from She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Quotes·Quotation by Lady Lou
Mae West as Lady Lou from She Done Him Wrong (1933)
¶ I always did like a man in a uniform. That one fits you grand. Why don't you come up sometime and see me? I'm home every evening.
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