#lan

To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything. ↗

— Otto Lilienthal

#build #everything #fly #invent #nothing

In order to figure out how to make atoms compute, you have to learn how to speak their language and to understand how they process information under normal circumstances. ↗

— Seth Lloyd

#circumstances #compute #figure #how #information

The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the more, the more crippled they are. Germany is the background of all my plans, the return to Germany. ↗

— Friedrich List

#children #crippled #fatherland #germany #i

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#children #express #gypsy #her #how

I was on dialysis for 18 months before the transplant, so it was important I tried to look ahead to days like my comeback this Saturday. You need those big goals to drive you on. ↗

— Jonah Lomu

#before #big #comeback #days #drive

When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#call #garland #judy #judy garland #just

On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach. ↗

— Anita Loos

#better #more #other #people #pick

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means. ↗

— Paul de Man

#curiously #describing #does #enough #language

He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#been #close #countenance #ears #expressive

General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle. ↗

— James Longstreet

#battle #behind #beyond #campaign #defensive