#other

My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give it to me to untangle. It would have a shiny, sweaty smell, and excite me: Gold chains linked you to the great fairy tales and myths, to Arabia, and India; to the great weight of the world, but lighter than a feather. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#back #chain #chains #drawer #excite

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

#another #coming #did #doubt #each

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#am #any #ashamed #equal #ever

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#anyone #else #feign #great #i

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#favorite #i #i love #i think #less

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#always #anything #aware #beautiful #called

I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#bare #bottom #bounce #ecstasy #father

It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative. ↗

— Brian Lamb

#agree #authoritative #become #before #four

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#am #another #being #encourage #excellent

I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them. ↗

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

#cannot #countless #distant #entire #faint