#wards

To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit. ↗

— Irving Langmuir

#aspect #awards #bring #carry #common

Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun. ↗

— Ali Larter

#armies #burn #cooking #dance #fun

I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that? ↗

— John Lasseter

#always #because #cry #did #emotion

The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#being #cockroach #feel #gross #human

I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention. ↗

— James Laughlin

#agree #always #attention #bad #bad thing

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#another #apart #gentle #grow #hearts

The Giraffe took the horse's head and led him along on the most level parts of the road towards the railway station, and two or three chaps went along to help get the sick man into the train. ↗

— Henry Lawson

#chaps #get #giraffe #head #help

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards. ↗

— Bill Lee

#baseball #gave #mickey #mickey mouse #money

On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory. ↗

— Meriwether Lewis

#attention #directed #early #exploring #government

Towards the end of 2003 it was hard to get through training - and the darkest point was when a doctor told me there was a possibility I could end up in a wheelchair. ↗

— Jonah Lomu

#darkest #doctor #end #get #hard