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Art is a little bit larger than life - it's an exhalation of life and I think you probably need a little touch of madness.
— Laurence Olivier
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.
— Laurence Olivier
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status
— Laurence J. Peter
Aristotle's axiom: The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
— Laurence J. Peter
liked the simple language and that nothing much happened. It wasn't all fancy but almost like an episode, like a summer holiday story, and
— Laurence Fearnley
I wouldn't say that going into a weekly television series is actually stepping away from anything. It's another medium in which to work as an actor.
— Laurence Fishburne
The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't.
— Laurence J. Peter
A good simile,as concise as a king's declaration of love. — Laurence Sterne
Who wants tea and sympathy? Let's have coffee and sex, Stacey, eh?
— Margaret Laurence
The artist accepts the limitations of form, not with fear and dread, but as the starting point of creation.
— Laurence Boldt
When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
— Laurence Sterne
Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.
— Leslie Nielsen
Do you know how hard and expensive architecture school is? People drop out to go to med school because it's easier.
— Andrea Laurence
Endless is the search of truth.
— Laurence Sterne
Prejudice is one of the world's greatest labor-saving devices; it enables you to form an opinion without having to dig up the facts.
— Laurence J. Peter
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
— Laurence J. Peter
Reality is for people who can't face drugs.
— Laurence J. Peter
Anyone who doesn't love animals has a serious hole in the heart.
— Laurence Overmire
It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.
— Laurence J. Peter
An employee's relationship - by blood, marriage or acquaintance - with a person above him in the hierarchy.
— Laurence J. Peter
It's frightening to admit but if I lay off the lin it'a amazing how my love handles deplete. But is life without gin worth living?
— Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.
— Laurence Overmire
Either we pay the government's bills, or we leave them for our kids to pay. It's that simple.
— Laurence Kotlikoff
The cave-dweller's wife complained that he hadn't dragged her anywhere in months.
— Laurence J. Peter
A bureaucrat's idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it.
— Laurence J. Peter
Life is enthusiasm, zest.
— Laurence Olivier
When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
— Laurence Olivier
I had plenty of time,' he said, telling himself that was one of the saddest sentences there is.
— Laurence Cosse
Man's First Mistake: The Wheel
— Laurence J. Peter
May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.
— Laurence J. Peter
Del UsionIf you knew the person
He thinks he is
You'd have to admit
He's one very special guy. — Laurence Overmire
Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.
— Laurence Stallings
I could do Daniel Day-Lewis's job as well as him.
— Laurence Fox
You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.
— Laurence Fishburne
To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision.
— Laurence Gartel
The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That's what the Supreme Court said.
— Laurence Tribe
When you look at a person who's different and see Yourself, then you begin to understand who and what God really is.
— Laurence Overmire
It's all a farce, - these tales they tell About the breezes sighing, And moans astir o'er field and dell, Because the year is dying.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
If the outcome is good, what's the difference between motives that sound good and good, sound motives?
— Laurence J. Peter
If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
— Laurence J. Peter
When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides inwoe be to truth! — Laurence Sterne
A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.
— Laurence Sterne
I have a voice. It's one of my gifts. I intend to use it on behalf of the children that UNICEF seeks to aid.
— Laurence Fishburne
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
— Laurence J. Peter
I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.
— Laurence Fox
Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.
— Laurence Overmire
When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.
— Laurence J. Peter
The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
— Laurence Sterne
Magellan's thirst for glory, under cover of religious zeal, led him fatally astray.
— Laurence Bergreen
I am responsible for managing more schoolteachers' and firemen's money than anybody in the world. That's an enormous responsibility.
— Laurence D. Fink
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
— Laurence Sterne
Dog's constipated," said Bert the Shirt."Who isn't?" said the Godfather. — Laurence Shames
No matter how well you perform, there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
— Laurence Olivier
In life's work, bliss and sacrifice are two sides of the same coin, complementary opposites.
— Laurence Boldt
It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.
— Laurence Housman
You could probably go three or four months without the word 'God' coming from my dad's mouth; Mum would pray for a parking space.
— Laurence Fox
I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.
— Laurence Equilbey
Sometimes it's easier to be as bad as they expect you to be.
— Laurence Yep
It's a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn't always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.
— Laurence Harvey
Kindness comes with no price.
— Laurence Yep
It had ever, as I told the reader, been one of the singular blessings of my life, to be almost every hour of it miserably in love with some one ...
— Laurence Sterne
What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.
— Laurence Sterne
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
— Laurence J. Peter
When a New Yorker looks like he has a suntan, it's probably rust.
— Laurence J. Peter
The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.
— Laurence Sterne
Too bad to deprive them, but if a person doesn't look after herself in this world, no one else is likely to.
— Margaret Laurence
If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
— Laurence Sterne
To write an article about someone and then to have that person murdered is disturbing.
— Laurence Shames
A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
— Laurence Sterne
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
— Laurence Sterne
Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath.
— Laurence Yep
Every time I've been to Los Angeles, I've hated it. My brother works there, so I usually go each year for a holiday.
— Laurence Fox
We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings.
— Laurence Olivier
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.
— Laurence J. Peter
When Laurence was old enough to do what he liked, he would be old enough to understand he couldn't do what he liked. The
— Charlie Jane Anders
Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
— Laurence Olivier
The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.
— Laurence Tribe
But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
A free press is one that prints a dictator's speech but doesn't have to.
— Laurence J. Peter
I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it.
— Laurence J. Peter
We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.
— Laurence J. Peter
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.
— Laurence Housman
Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.
— Paul Laurence Dunbar
Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.
— Laurence Overmire
The world is ashamed of being virtuous.
— Laurence Sterne
If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
— Laurence Housman
Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
— Laurence Sterne
When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.
— Laurence D. Fink
The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.
— Laurence Sterne
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,and has wit in it, and instruction too,
if we can but find it out. — Laurence Sterne
Who had thought she was having
— Laurence Gonzales
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
— Laurence Sterne
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
— Laurence J. Peter
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
— Laurence Olivier
So, is there a "new economy?" The answer is: It depends. It depends on how you define new economy, and it depends on where you live.
— Laurence Meyer
