#nsa

When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way. ↗

— Phillip Lim

#across #ask #come #flower #i

America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future. ↗

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#appetite #enjoy #existing #future #glorious

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#any #being #fervent #good #his

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#indispensable #initiative #performances #receives #recognition

I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane! ↗

— Bob Livingston

#by the time #champion #cotton #cotton fields #down

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane. ↗

— Gary Locke

#asian #could #course #dad #doctor

Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#before #better #choose #decide #ever

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage. ↗

— Bela Lugosi

#compensated #his #hundreds #knowledge #millions

One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

#act #already #decide #decided #decision

Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#complexes #elements #make #make up #produce