Quotations

"To see you naked is to recall the Earth."

— Federico Garcia Lorca, Spanish poet, born 1898

"The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations which we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us."

— Audre Lorde, Caribbean-American writer, born 1934

"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."

— Audre Lorde, Caribbean-American writer, born 1934

"We're all dancing in the darkness."

— Traci Lords, American actress, born 1968

"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti."

— Sophia Loren, Italian actress, born 1934

"Do you think we should drive a stake through his heart just in case?"

— Peter Lorre, Slovak-American actor, born 1904

"A champion doesn't become a champion in the ring, he's merely recognized in the ring. His 'becoming' happens during his daily routine."

— Joe Louis, American boxer, born 1914

"Once that bell rings you're on your own."

— Joe Louis, American boxer, born 1914

"There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is nothing in the sky so profoundly impressive as the canals of Mars. Fine lines and little gossamer filaments only, cobwebbing the face of the Martian disk, but threads to draw one's mind after them across the millions of miles of intervening void."

— Percival Lowell, American astronomer, born 1855

"If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details are inevitably to be expected in the hosts of orbs around him. He learns that, though he will probably never find his double anywhere, he is destined to discover any number of cousins scattered through space."

— Percival Lowell, American astronomer, born 1855

"Some morbidity in me attracts mosquitoes."

— Robert Lowell, American poet, born 1917

"To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious."

— Bela Lugosi, Romanian-American actor, born 1882

"To win a woman, take her with you to see Dracula."

— Bela Lugosi, Romanian-American actor, born 1882

"In drama, the characters should determine the story. In melodrama, the story determines the characters."

— Sidney Lumet, American director, born 1924