All Quotes

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America.
‐‐ Henry Cabot Lodge

Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
‐‐ L. Neil Smith

Lincoln had a tremendous capacity for personal growth - more than any other American President.
‐‐ Henry Louis Gates

Lincoln had bad press, too. He wasn't appreciated until after he was gone.
‐‐ Mario Cuomo

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
‐‐ David Herbert Donald

'Lincoln' is a powerful film. It's one of those epic films that talk about this very specific issue in history of the United States.
‐‐ Demian Bichir

'Lincoln' is impressive enough to almost make you forget how much Daniel Day-Lewis dominates the endeavor.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

Lincoln made mistakes. Roosevelt made mistakes. Eisenhower made mistakes. The Battle of the Bulge was the biggest intelligence failure in American military history, much bigger than any in Vietnam or now. We didn't know that the Soviets were moving 400,000 or 500,000 troops. We missed it.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

Lincoln prevailed: wearing his green shawl in the White House and gripped with melancholy, his feet constantly cold, he preserved a nation that had begun to unravel, often holding it together with nothing more than the flat of his hand and his unfaltering sense of human worth.
‐‐ Jerome Charyn

Lincoln's leadership is based on a number of precepts, but my favorite one is that he acted in the name, and for the good, of the people.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg

Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.
‐‐ John George Nicolay

Lincoln's stature and strength, his intelligence and ambition - in short, all the elements which gave him popularity among men in New Salem, rendered him equally attractive to the fair sex of that village.
‐‐ John George Nicolay

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.
‐‐ Jay Inslee

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.
‐‐ George H. W. Bush

Lincoln, steeped in the Bible and Shakespeare, set an impossibly high bar for presidential prose.
‐‐ Jonathan Raban

Lincoln was a supreme politician. He understood politics because he understood human nature.
‐‐ Charles A. Beard

Lincoln was not an intellectual, but no one in 200 years understood the language of the King James Bible or learned Blackstone's Laws of England, or Cicero, or the language of the Founding Fathers, better than he did.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

'Lincoln' was OK; I thought it was a rock-solid eight out of 10, but it shouldn't win all the awards.
‐‐ Evan Goldberg

Lincoln was the greatest speaker and he was ridiculed for how he looked, you know?
‐‐ Kevin Costner

Lincoln would love the fact that Obama is such a great conciliator, trying to transcend ideology.
‐‐ Henry Louis Gates

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.
‐‐ Bernie Taupin

Linda Georgian is a wonderful psychic. She can do amazing things.
‐‐ Dionne Warwick

Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.
‐‐ Victoria Pratt

Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
‐‐ Barrett Foa

Linda Svendsen's 'Marine Life' was important. I was nearly 22. Larry Mathews discussed the book in a creative writing class. We examined her stories, figured out how they worked.
‐‐ Michael Winter

Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
‐‐ Patrick Macnee

Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
‐‐ Mary Schmich

Linden Lab's technological breakthroughs have made 'Second Life' a truly revolutionary experience.
‐‐ Mitch Kapor

Lindor is a good player. When I was 20, I wasn't conditioned like he is.
‐‐ Asdrubal Cabrera

Lindsay Lohan was the 'It' girl from, like, 14. That's a lot of pressure.
‐‐ Saoirse Ronan

Line up a group of Horace Mann students, interview them, and take a look at their resumes, and you'll be hard pressed to pick out the students who require extra time. So then, what qualifies these students to receive special accommodations on the SAT?
‐‐ Eliot Schrefer

Linear thinking typifies a highly developed industry. It starts to get these patterns built into it somehow. I'm not sure how that happens, but certainly you take a look at dinosaurs.
‐‐ Michael Nesmith

Lines are very difficult to learn.
‐‐ Benedict Cumberbatch

Ling cod is a mild-flavored and somewhat delicate fish that takes well to poaching, braising and pan-roasting.
‐‐ Tom Douglas

Lingerie is my next love after clothing; I think it is what is worn underneath that really inspires a woman to feel beautiful in her clothes - that inner, secret glamour.
‐‐ Alice Temperley

Lingerie is one of the most important pieces of your wardrobe. You can have a wardrobe malfunction if you don't choose the right thing to wear underneath!
‐‐ Adriana Lima

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.
‐‐ Robert Fripp

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
‐‐ Roman Jakobson

Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports - is all about functionality, whereas the vocabulary of the luxury business - handbags, ready-to-wear - is all about the product.
‐‐ Francois-Henri Pinault

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.
‐‐ Samuel R. Delany

Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
‐‐ Ferdinand de Saussure

Link to your competitors and say nice things about them. Remember, you're part of an industry.
‐‐ Robert Scoble

LinkedIn and Flickr, among other sites, have already proven freemium can generate revenue in the social media context.
‐‐ Ryan Holmes

LinkedIn is increasingly becoming a very strong place for companies to develop their talent plans, their recruitment plans, and so there are ways in which we can track some of the momentum there.
‐‐ Jeff Weiner

LinkedIn is the Netscape of its era.
‐‐ Frank Quattrone

LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.
‐‐ Jesse Schell

LinkedIn was an amazing deal for us to do because of their mission.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

Linkin Park has been a band for such a long time, for me, in my eyes. I was 16 years old when I first heard them. I heard 'Hybrid Theory,' and I was floored at what I was listening to. It was angry yet melodic, it had hip-hop and it had - it was just different, good. Good songwriting.
‐‐ Austin Carlile

Linking up the things you were with the things you become is what growing up is.
‐‐ James L. Brooks