"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." — Harper Lee, American author, born 1926
"People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush." — Li-Young Lee, Indonesian-American poet, born 1957
"A bruise, blue in the muscle, you impinge upon me. As bone hugs the ache home, so I'm vexed to love you, your body the shape of returns, your hair a torso of light, your heat I must have, your opening I'd eat, each moment of that soft-finned fruit, inverted fountain in which I don't see me." — Li-Young Lee, Indonesian-American poet, born 1957
"There are days we live as if death were nowhere in the background; from joy to joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom to impossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom." — Li-Young Lee, Indonesian-American poet, born 1957
"That's what I want, that kind of recklessness where the poem is even ahead of you. It's like riding a horse that's a little too wild for you, so there's this tension between what you can do and what the horse decides it's going to do." — Li-Young Lee, Indonesian-American poet, born 1957
"Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water." — Fernand Leger, French painter, born 1881
"Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power." — Fernand Leger, French painter, born 1881
"Latins for Republicans. It's like roaches for Raid." — John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor, born 1964
"You don't have to enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth." — Annie Leibovitz, American photographer, born 1949
"Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure." — Jack Lemmon, American actor, born 1925
"It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is." — Jack Lemmon, American actor, born 1925