Lollipop
Quotes·Quotation
Life is like a lollipop. It's sweet but does not last long.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)
Logan Pearsall Smith (18 October 1865 – 2 March 1946) was an American-born essayist and critic.
Smith was born in Millville, New Jersey. He was the son of the prominent Quakers Robert Pearsall Smith and Hannah Whitall Smith and a descendant of James Logan, who was William Penn's secretary and the Chief Justice of Pennsylvania in the 18th century. His mother's family had become wealthy from its glass factories. He lived for a time as a boy in England, and later attended The William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, Haverford College, Harvard College, and the University of Berlin. In his 1938 autobiography, Smith describes how in his youth he came to be a friend of Walt Whitman in the poet's latter years. Smith later studied at Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1891. He then settled in England with occasional forays to continental Europe and became a British citizen in 1913. He divided his time between Chelsea, where he was a close friend of Desmond MacCarthy and Rose Macaulay, and a Tudor farmhouse near the Solent, called "Big Chilling". Smith employed a succession of young secretary/companions to help him. This post was Cyril Connolly's first job in 1925 and he was to be strongly influenced by Smith. Robert Gathorne-Hardy succeeded Connolly in this post.
Smith was an authority on 17th century divines. He was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and his Trivia has been highly rated. He was a literary perfectionist and could take days refining his sentences. With Words and Idioms he became a recognised authority on the correct use of English. He is now probably most remembered for his autobiography Unforgotten Years (1938). He was much influenced by Walter Pater. As well as his employees listed, his followers included Desmond MacCarthy, John Russell, R. C. Trevelyan, and Hugh Trevor-Roper. He was, in part, the basis for the character of Nick Greene / Sir Nicholas Greene in Virginia Woolf's Orlando.
Gathorne-Hardy described Pearsall Smith as "a largish man with a stoop that disguised his height",. Kenneth Clark further wrote "His tall frame, hunched up, with head thrust forward like a bird, was balanced unsteadily on vestigial legs".
Smith's sister Alys was the first wife of philosopher Bertrand Russell, and his sister Mary married the art historian Bernard Berenson.
Quotes·Quotations by Logan Pearsall Smith
Writing·Reading
¶ People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
Money
¶ It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Images
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Ira Steven Behr (1953- )
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
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.
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