All Quotes

Lying is the greatest of all sins.
‐‐ Alfred Nobel

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.
‐‐ Susan Sontag

Lying just for the fun of it is either art or pathology.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Lying, stealing, and cheating are commonplace.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.
‐‐ John Bercow

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.
‐‐ Ken Starr

Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States, and the incidence is growing rapidly. In 2009, the C.D.C. reported thirty-eight thousand cases, three times more than in 1991. Most researchers agree that the true number of infections is five to ten times higher.
‐‐ Michael Specter

Lympne Castle opens its doors to visitors during the summer only. It is privately owned, and more an interesting medieval manor than a castle.
‐‐ David Hewson

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.
‐‐ Jack Nance

Lynch is not as strange as his films. He's a complex guy with a very interesting view of the world. But he's very accessible, with a good heart.
‐‐ Kyle MacLachlan

Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable.
‐‐ Thuy Trang

Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do.
‐‐ Thuy Trang

Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.
‐‐ Robert Caro

Lyndon Johnson faced some clear moral issues.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Lyndon Johnson, I know for a fact, was a great president. And I don't mean by that he was a great man.
‐‐ Eileen Myles

Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president - pilloried for the failed war in Vietnam and criticized for grandiose reforms conservatives denounce as the epitome of federal social engineering that costs too much and does too little.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's.
‐‐ Bob Gunton

Lyon is unusual and seems to be exceptionally incompetent at publicising itself. In fact, it doesn't want visitors. It fears discovery.
‐‐ Bill Buford

LYou can get yourself cut and stitched, or you can get a good girdle. The day before my first Emmy show, I went to Sears and bought a really good girdle. And I've worn that thing to every single awards show since!
‐‐ Jane Kaczmarek

Lyric helps invoke the core person. And, without lyric, it is difficult to touch the core. Lyrical music is the music of India.
‐‐ Dayananda Saraswati

Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing.
‐‐ James Fenton

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.
‐‐ Thurston Moore

Lyrical poetry is not a big part of most people's lives. Twitter now becomes an interesting way of getting cared for language into people's space. Because there is something deep inside of us that responds to cared for language, whether it's literary, poetry, or really good lyrics in a song.
‐‐ Teju Cole

Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.
‐‐ Steven Heighton

Lyrically and thematically, the title 'Doctor Faith', that song is about therapy, psychotherapy, and that song is about emotions and personal insight. I think all the songs on the record sort of go along with that.
‐‐ Christopher Cross

Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.
‐‐ Pharrell Williams

Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.
‐‐ Ronnie James Dio

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.
‐‐ Patrick Stump

Lyrically, I think I'm frustrated with this whole process of trying to figure out what I believe about the world and life. I don't like to adopt a sort of guiding philosophy.
‐‐ James Mercer

Lyrically, there's a lot of songs that are influenced by my wife. They're about my wife and I.
‐‐ Scott Weiland

Lyrically we tried to just not be the same as a lot of the other crap that is out there right now.
‐‐ Adam Rich

Lyricists play with words.
‐‐ Paul McCartney

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
‐‐ Brian Eno

Lyrics are coming to you all the time. I get inspiration in the middle of the night.
‐‐ Rod Stewart

Lyrics are important, but it's hard, because English isn't my first language - although it feels like it is these days! I grew up with amazing melodies, so getting that right on a song has always been the key thing for me, but there's no reason why a great melody doesn't deserve great lyrics.
‐‐ Avicii

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing.
‐‐ Alison Krauss

Lyrics are my racket; music is play - the fluff stuff.
‐‐ Cass McCombs

Lyrics are really important for me.
‐‐ Gavin Rossdale

Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
‐‐ Nate Ruess

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.
‐‐ Brian Eno

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.
‐‐ Joanna Newsom

Lyrics are very important to me. I like speaking to women and saying what I mean.
‐‐ Rachel Platten

Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.
‐‐ Babyface

Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.
‐‐ Harold Prince

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.
‐‐ Nate Ruess

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.
‐‐ Stephen Sondheim

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.
‐‐ Matt Berninger