Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity. Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity....

Do not dig up the tree to examine his roots....

Le Duan (1908-1986) was a major figure in North Vietnam during the Vietnam War and the principal leader of all Vietnam in the postwar era. He proved to be a good wartime ruler, but was less successful as a leader dealing with the problems ...

L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) wrote 69 books beloved by children, including The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which became a classic movie. Lyman Frank Baum was born on May 15, 1856, near Syracuse, New York. His father, Benjamin, was a wealthy oil b...

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality....

Think of the mail-order business and several prominent names come to mind--Sears, Roebuck & Company, Montgomery Ward, and Spiegel's, to name just a few. But perhaps none has achieved the unique quality, charm, and character of L.L. Bea...

L. Neil Smith (full name- Lester Neil Smith III, also known by his nickname El Neil or The Sage of the High Plains ) is a libertarian science fiction author and political activist. He was born on May 12 , 1946 in Denver. His works include ...

Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light....

Continuing a short series on authenticity: "Prayer in the Name of Christ", though it is essentially a mystical phrase, also contains a surface meaning which is very valuable to those who grasp and apply it. The more Jesus becomes our stand...

Lyon Sprague de Camp is one of America's leading writers and scholars of fantasy and science fiction. His interests in technology, history, and language have also resulted in the publication of numerous works of popular science, archaeolog...

Russian mathematician whose work in geometry and topology was of great importance. Lyusternik's work in polyhedra (solid shapes with many sides) included shapes that inspired Buckminister Fuller to invent the geodesic dome, after wh...

"It's not about blood and guts--it's about idealism," commented author L. J. Smith on SimonSays. Smith was speaking of the two dozen novels with which she has turned the light romantic horror novel into a metaphor for the adolescent experi...

Ritchie Valens helped merge traditional Mexican music with American rock 'n' roll when he recorded "La Bamba" in 1958. Since his version, "La Bamba" has been recorded over 150 times in the United S...

We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together. Love lessens a woman's delicacy and increases a man's....

La Cage aux Folles is a 1983 broadway musical. I'm dancin' like a monkey! We are what we are and what we are is an illusion.//We love how it feels//Putting on heels causing confusion. "We Are What We Are" song If beauty is skin deep, why a...

La Collectionneuse is a very private kind of film—not only in that it is clearly the work of an individual artist (any Bergman or Fellini film is that) but also in that it is about very special, very private problems. The first-person nar...

La Commare Secca, [which has been translated as The Grim Reaper but] which means literally "The Dry Housewife" or "Housewife Dry" is a Roman-dialect name for death, and Bernardo Bertolucci's film is basically a treatment of death and of pro...

SOURCE: McGuire, James R. “The Feminine Conspiracy in Balzac's La Cousine Bette.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies 20, nos. 3 & 4 (spring-summer 1992): 295-304. In the following essay, McGuire explores the lesbianism in La cousine Bett...

La Dolce Vita is not so much long as redundant. Scene duplicates scene; and scene after scene is protracted long after its every point has been unmistakably made. The trouble would seem to be that the film is conceived on a grand scale, but...

La Femme Nikita is a spy drama television series created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran , which was first aired, on USA Network , in January 1997 and ran for five seasons until March 2001. Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Ni...

SOURCE: "Almodóvar and the Tin Can," in Sight and Sound, Vol. 6, No. 2, February, 1996, pp. 24-7. In the following interview, Almodóvar discusses his latest film The Flower of My Secret, his cinematic process, and Spanish politics. [Smith...