Quotes About Lawrence

I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century.

Well, actually, I do the voiceover for Quentin Sands.

My feeling is that the judge has a responsibility to the Constitution first, precedent second. Precedent is one factor. It is not the only factor. If it was the only factor, then, you know, we wouldn't have had Roe vs. Wade. We wouldn't have had Griswold. We wouldn't have had Lawrence. We wouldn't have had all these cases which the Left love.

I love history and I love watching history movies, stuff like 'Ben Hur' and 'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Doctor Zhivago.'

This is the best biography by me I have ever read.

On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government.

Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For what's 'morality' but a leash around the neck? A noose? What's 'morality' but what other people want you to do, for their own, selfish, unstated purposes?

Clad in the magnificent white silk robes of an Arab prince, with in his belt the short curved, gold sword of the Ashraf descendants of the Prophet, he hoped to pass unnoticed through London. Alas, he was mistaken. "Who am I?" he would cry despairingly. "You are Lawrence of Arabia" passers-by would stop him and say, "And I claim my five pounds."

Lawrence's 'spirit', his biographer argues, 'was imperial, not provincial'.

The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.

Mr. Sillerton Jackson había devuelto los anteojos a Lawrence Lefferts. Todos los miembros del grupo se volvieron instintivamente a él, esperando escuchar lo que el anciano diría, pues Mr. Jackson era toda una autoridad en familias, así como Lawrence Lefferts lo era en formalidades.

One of the library occupants was Lawrence Beesley, a Dulwich College science master seeking new chances in America (his small son grew up to marry Dodie Smith, the author of The 101 Dalmatians).

Nico's anger turned as cold and dark as his blade. He'd been morphed into a few plants himself, and he didn't appreciate it. He hated people like Bryce Lawrence, who inflicted pain just for fun.

A treat indeed, to read Raymond Chandler for the first time. I almost envied the man

Milland went on to other things, but his picture graced the cover of Markham: The Case of the Pornographic Photos, which is a notably clunky title and subtitle.

September I arrived at Antioch College

Another title that could be questioned is Lingo Dan (1903) by Percival Pollard.

type my work and get it copied before delivering the original to my agent. (Not too many years before that I'd have made a carbon copy. Do you remember carbon paper? Does anybody?)

And he'll beat you, beat you, beat you And he'll beat you all to pap And he'll eat you, eat you, eat you Every morsel snap snap snap! English Lullaby

I try to avoid eating endangered species, let alone mythical ones. You

A mind may be a terrible thing to waste, but it's an even worse thing to have to listen to.

You can take the girl out of St. Athanasius, etc. —Who was he, do you happen to know? Not Herr Bratwurst, Saint Whatchamacallit. —Athanasius. No idea. So yes, I'm reasonably certain she had an affair, although I don't think it was the kind that would put Antony and Cleopatra in the shade. But whatever

Brad Steiger's recently published book, Sex and the Supernatural. (Perhaps Steiger and Tracy can someday collaborate on Sex and the Supernatural Stewardess, for that matter.)

all the topics embraced in the title of the Kronhausens' fine book Pornography and the Law.