Löis Lancaster Quotes

I believe that I have such a vanilla life.

Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

As long as you are curious, you defeat age.

The first duty of life is to live.

When two partners always agree, one of them aint necessary.

Alcoholics are mostly disappointed men.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort.

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I judge a restaurant by the bread & the coffee.

I admire honesty and straightforwardness combined with true femininity.

In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.

You see, if you make believe hard enough that something is true, then it is true for you.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.

We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for.

I did something wrong - once.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.

Most people seem to think I'm the kind of guy who shaves with a blowtorch. Actually I'm bookish and worrisome.

I walked out of class one day and I never went back

Dislike of another's opinions and beliefs neither justifies our own nor makes us more certain of them: and to transfer the repugnance to the person himself is a mark of a vulgar mind.

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

You sit in your tepee and dream and then you go to wherever the dream may take you. It might come true. You wait for real life to catch up.

I still believe in the Holy Trinity, except now it's Target, Trader Joe's, and IKEA.

My brother never had me to dinner in his life.

Your faith is what you believe, not what you know.

A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit like mixing a salade. (I am better at room than salads).

What we love to do we find time to do.

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.

I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

You have to fight against being an antique

I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any

Those who believe in our ability do more than stimulate us. They create for us an atmosphere in which it becomes easier to succeed.

I never think that sticking slavishly to one period is successful, a touch of nostalgia adds charm. One needs light and shade because if every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.

Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee?

The complaint of bad pay, and difficulty in obtaining it, is almost generally reiterated through every department of education.

All are agreed, that the increase of learning and good morals are great blessings to society.

The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.

Crossing too many t's and dotting too many i's makes a room look overdone and tiresome. One should create something that fires the imagination without overemphasis.

When we have not the strength or the courage to grasp a new truth, we persuade ourselves that it is not a truth at all.

I'm the person who says every single thing she thinks, sometimes to others' amusement, and almost always to my detriment.