#thing

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time. ↗

— Maya Lin

#anything #deal #exist #i #i do

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist. ↗

— Maya Lin

#art #artist #day #did #even

But I've been there and done that. I'm not trying to prove anything to anybody, and if somebody wants me to come, if they can afford what I ask, it's not as much as Madonna makes; not that I want what Madonna makes, but I was saying. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#anybody #anything #ask #been #come

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#bonds #books #elements #friendship #granted

I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren. ↗

— Astrid Lindgren

#although #been #being #children #enormous

I'd be stupid not to take into consideration that there are certain things people will not consider me for because my name is Lopez. And I know I can do any kind of role. I don't want anybody to say, Oh, she can't pull this off. So those are barriers that you have to overcome. ↗

— Jennifer Lopez

#anybody #barriers #because #certain #certain things

A beautiful thing is never perfect ↗

— egyptian proverb

#the-real-truth #beauty

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed. ↗

— Anita Loos

#america #american #american life #billions #charm

There's nothing colder than chemistry. ↗

— Anita Loos

#colder #nothing #than

I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself. ↗

— Rebecca Loos

#being #being myself #else #everything #fairytale