Quotations

"American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook."

— Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress, born 1914

"Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him."

— Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress, born 1914

"I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away."

— Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-American actress, born 1914

"Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself."

— Anne Lamott, American novelist, born 1954

"My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear."

— Anne Lamott, American novelist, born 1954

"I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present."

— Anne Lamott, American novelist, born 1954

"Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die."

— Anne Lamott, American novelist, born 1954

"I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us."

— Anne Lamott, American novelist, born 1954

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."

— Anne Lamott, American novelist, born 1954

"It helps beyond words to plant bulbs in the dark of winter."

— Anne Lamott, American novelist, born 1954

"Marketing is what you do when your product is no good."

— Edwin Land, American scientist, born 1909

"Bad as it is, the world is potentially full of good photographs. But to be good, photographs have to be full of the world."

— Dorothea Lange, American photographer, born 1895

"Ours is a time of the machine, and ours is a need to know that the machine can be put to creative effort. If it is not, the machine can destroy us. It is within the power of the photographer to help prohibit this destruction, and help make the machine an agent more of good than of evil. Though not a poet, nor a painter, nor a composer, he is yet an artist, and as an artist undertakes not only risks but responsibilities. And it is with responsibility that both the photographer and his machine are brought to their ultimate tests."

— Dorothea Lange, American photographer, born 1895

"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us more than we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our own eyes often permit us to see."

— Dorothea Lange, American photographer, born 1895