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
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?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Olivier
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Bacall
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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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latins_(Italic_tribe)
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Langland
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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