"Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe." — Doug Larson, American editor, born 1926
"I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so." — Jacques Henri Lartigue, French photographer, born 1894
"We create poetry in a multicolored universe. Not a path, but a corkscrew. Not a spectrum, but a gyre. Perhaps the stages of death, containing all forms of flight, constitute our rainbow." — Dorothea Lasky, American poet, born 1978
"If you fall, I will catch you. I will be waiting, time after time." — Cyndi Lauper, American singer, born 1953
"When the working day is done, girls just want to have fun." — Cyndi Lauper, American singer, born 1953
"The most beautiful clothes that can dress a woman are the arms of the man she loves. But for those who haven't had the fortune of finding this happiness, I am there." — Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer, born 1936
"The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy." — Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer, born August 1, 1936
"That's how it is sometimes – God comes to your window, all bright light and black wings, and you're just too tired to open it." — Dorianne Laux, American poet, born 1952
"I write to invite the voices in, to watch the angel wrestle, to feel the devil gather on its haunches and rise. I write to hear myself breathing. I write to be doing something while I wait to be called to my appointment with death. I write to be done writing. I write because writing is fun." — Dorianne Laux, American poet, born 1952
"We continue to speak, if only in whispers, to something inside us that longs to be named." — Dorianne Laux, American poet, born 1952