Top 100 Lana Quotes
#1. It's Sanjit. It's a Hindu name. It means 'invincible.'"
"That's great," Lana said.
"Invincible. I can't be vinced."
"That's not even a word," Lana said.
"Go ahead: try to vince me," Sanjit said.
Michael Grant
#2. I wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - 'Lana Del Rey' reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.
Lana Del Rey
#3. No, it's not [a book] Lana. It's an allegorical novella about Stalinism by George Orwell, and spoiler alert, IT SUCKS.
Sterling Archer
#4. Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly 'remade' herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.
Liz Phair
#5. Sometimes it was hard to know where you stood with Lana. She was too busy protecting herself. If you weren't persistent, she never let you in.
Jen Frederick
#6. Hello darkness, my old friend," Lana half sang, half whispered. "I'm coming to talk with you again.
Michael Grant
#7. I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up
Frank O'Hara
#8. As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.
Lee Radziwill
#9. Other people collected friends like badges but Lana chose only one - and that friendship was pinned so close to her heart that removing it had left behind a jagged tear.
Lucy Clarke
#10. Okay, look. I get it. You're one of those people who thinks they have to help screwed-up people. Or maybe you're attracted to dangerous, unbalanced people. But listen up: I'm not Edward and you're not Bella - Lana
Michael Grant
#11. I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.
Anushka Sharma
#12. I would like to collaborate with Lana Del Rey . She just has the perfect voice! I love it.
Martin Garrix
#13. I've never been able to grow an organ back," Lana said. "Last time I tried ... Let's just hope you don't end up with whip eyes.
Michael Grant
#14. I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team
Abbi Glines
#15. I didn't have a great grasp of what guys considered a "come hither" look, so maybe I gave him one. I'd thought it was a "leave me the hell alone" look, but who knew. ~ Lana from Moonlight
Lisa Kessler
#16. No," Lana said, "I'm not going to heal your scratch."
"Good," Sanjit said.
"Good? Why good?"
"Because when you hold my hand, I don't want it to be work for you.
Michael Grant
#17. I confronted her about it a few times, but she always denies it. She's so far inside the closet, Lana, she might as well be halfway to Narnia. My sister has some serious issues with coming out.
L. H. Cosway
#18. Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She's not alone with implants.
Karl Lagerfeld
#19. You feel real good, Lana. Makes me forget everything else
Abbi Glines
#20. Dimitri held up a car seat with one hand, which was almost comical. "We can go whenever you're ready. Lana gave us this and swears it's easy to install."
Rose laughed at that. "Oh, this I've got to see, comrade. Dimitri Belikov, badass god, installing a baby's car seat.
Richelle Mead
#22. I'm still holding you to that dinner at your house." -- Lana
"Wear this dress and you'll be holding me." -- Hunter
Nancy Glynn
#23. Lana looked at me like I'd just said I'd never watched Bring It On, or something.
Meg Cabot
#24. Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.
Lana Turner
#25. Honey, I look at cake the way he looks at you," Lana remarked, shoving a load of bags across the counter at him. "Just do me a favor. Invite me to the wedding when you two boys get around to it. I'll even give you a deal on the food." "OKAY,
Rhys Ford
#26. I'm the same way," Lana admitted. "I keep picking guys who are bad bets because they do what I expect them to screw me over. That way, It's never my fault when the relationship fails.
Jen Frederick
#27. I used to feel like I was waiting for someone to discover me, to 'produce' me, like Lana Turner at the drugstore. Utlimately I realized that the person I was waiting for was myself. If we wait for the world's permission to shine, we will never receive it.
Marianne Williamson
#28. i'm no good-girl-gone bad or goin O-na-na like Rihanna, but I'm gonna Work It like Iggy and Ride Like Lana.
Bee
#29. I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.
John Steinbeck
#30. Claire thought you were a shapeshifting polar bear and Lana actually thought you were some kind of deity like Poseidon." Simon grinned. "She thought I was a god? Don't worry, after tonight, I'll prove to you that I am and much more.
Eve Langlais
#31. I like your boyfriend," Dahra said. "Not many guys volunteer to carry ten gallons of diarrhea and vomit."
Lana laughed. "He's not my boyfriend."
"Yeah, well, he can be mine if he wants to be. He's cute. And he carries crap.
Michael Grant
#32. I went out with a girl last night. She wasn't a Lana Turner. She was more of a stomach turner.
Henny Youngman
#33. You're staring," Lana said.
"Yes. I am. I'm a teenage boy. Beautiful girls in wet underwear have a tendency to cause staring in teenage boys.
Michael Grant
#34. Lana Turner was adorable and funny. Jimmy Stewart was such a nice person. I quickly realized that if you're not a nice person, you're not going to last in this business. I mean, once your box office starts to drop off, like Veronica Lake, they'll get rid of you fast.
Robert Osborne
#35. They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.
Daryl Hannah
#36. It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool.
[Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.]
Pope Pius II
#37. Lana says J.P. makes Matt Damon from the Bourne movies look like Oliver from Hannah Montana
Meg Cabot
#38. I could draw up a list of about 30 artists who I apparently sound like. From Lady Gaga, to Katy Perry to Lana Del Rey. I don't know if it's because I'm versatile or because production affects how people judge music. I can't wait for a time I can just be classed as myself.
Marina And The Diamonds
#39. Lana said, Sam, can you, you know, like burn that concrete off her hands?
Michael Grant
#40. If Lana Walters had given any thought to dying, she'd have assumed it would hurt more. Instead, when the bus hit her, the lights simply went out. One moment of inattention and then, nothing. Next she knew, she was weightless, flying above Boston.
Mae Archer
#41. Then, aided by the booze, like a fool I tossed off one of those throwaway lines that would have been better thrown away. Ah, Frank! I thought you were going to be down here fucking Lana.
Ava Gardner
#43. Thanks to Lana Turner, Eleven Eleven, The Nation, LIT Magazine (USA), Critical Quarterly (UK), Beautiful Outlaw Press, no press, The Capilano Review, cv2, Rhubarb and Centre A Gallery (Canada).
Erin Moure
#44. You don't ever need motives, Lana. Anything you want, anything that makes you happy ... just ask.
Alessandra Torre
#45. Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names.
Piper Laurie
#46. I'm just not the glamour type. Glamour girls are born, not made. And the real ones can be glamorous even if they don't wear magnificent clothes. I'll bet Lana Turner would look glamorous in anything.
Teresa Wright
#47. Aiden drew Lana's eleven over his skin like a cloak, and inside it, found love. For a time the humming of all other numbers dimmed behind the brilliant None they created in each other's arms.
The oaks, hazels, and yews of the grove heard that None, and they whispered.
Joni Sensel
#48. Lana was good for my ego. She was good for everything. Too bad I was straight. And then there was the whole 'cousin' thing
Jen Frederick
#49. Dale's family is like that. Let the Law come within twenty yards of them, and every male over the age of six
uncles, brother, father, cousins
starts lying his fool head off. Dale says it's genetic. Miss Lana says that's poppycock.
Sheila Turnage
#50. The sooner you stop fighting, the easier your life will be. That is what your purpose is."
Lana stood so abruptly she nearly fell backward. "No.
Kiersten White
#51. So how does Liz Phair feel about Lana Del Rey? Well, as a recording artist, I've been hated, I've been ridiculed, and conversely, hailed as the second coming. All that matters in the end is that I've been heard.
Liz Phair
#52. Don't go getting all shy on me now, Lana, he drawled, squeezing my sides with his hands
Abbi Glines
#53. She looked around her apartment which seemed to be waiting for something. Lana hated that, when the room was a pregnant pause.
Laura Jacobs
#54. [Could you show us how Lana Del Rey dances in a club?] That would be illegal.
Lana Del Rey
#55. For a war correspondent to miss an invasion is like refusing a date with Lana Turner.
Robert Capa
#56. Let's hope my aging brain hasn't failed us." "Yes," Lana added. "Let's hope we're not in Canada or Mexico by now." "Very funny.
James Dashner
#57. Yeah. A feeling. Like the whole point of my life from the alleys in Bangkok to the yachts and private island to coming here like a crazy person trying to fly a helicopter like all of it from birth to here point A to point Z was all some big cosmic trick to get me to meet you. - Sanjit to Lana
Michael Grant
#58. Amy Winehouse: Did she invent white soul? Wearing a beehive? No. But she did something brand new and fresh, altogether as a package, and you see who's in her wake, from the Duffys to the Lana Del Reys ... Adele selling 20 million records? That would not have happened if Amy Winehouse was alive.
Jack White
#59. Hell, no. I'd have to pull Etahn aside without her noticing and make sure he understood Lana was hands off.
Abbi Glines
#60. When Ava Gardner get in a taxi, the driver knows at once she's Ava Gardner. It's the same for Lana Turner or Elizabeth Taylor, but not for me. I'm never Grace Kelly, I'm always someone who looks like Grace Kelly.
Grace Kelly
#61. This is paradise. You took my paradise with you when you left, Lana.
R.K. Lilley
#62. Don't leave us again, Lana," he whispered roughly. "Don't leave me. Stay. Please.
R.K. Lilley
#63. No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.
Lana Parrilla
#64. I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities.
Lana Del Rey
#65. I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.
Lana Del Rey
#67. I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them
Lana Del Rey
#69. Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone.
Who had nothing, who wanted everything.
Lana Del Rey
#70. Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting.
Lana Del Rey
#71. It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
Lana Turner
#72. Einstein said 'your imagination is more important than intelligence,' and I have a very, very big imagination.
Lana Del Rey
#73. I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
Lana Del Rey
#74. When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.
Lana Del Rey
#75. Synchronicites . It's been said that coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous. Synchronicities are a sign of divinity. You breathe in deeply and say: 'I don't want anything. I'm going to let things happen'
Lana Del Rey
#76. If you consider the definition of authenticity, it's saying something and actually doing it. I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
Lana Del Rey
#77. Hello heaven, you are a tunnel lined with yellow lights on a dark night.
Lana Del Rey
#78. Love is strange, sometimes it makes you crazy, it can burn or break you down.
Lana Del Rey
#79. Form an image in your mind of what you want to happen, then do what it takes to make it happen.
Lana Krumwiede
#80. She'd shown her that living a life of silence and regret wasn't really living at all,
Lana Hart
#81. I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.
Lana Wachowski
#82. I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest.
Lana Del Rey
#83. It's not like I think my art is inspirations from icons strung together. They're just sort of people who others talk about. I am definitely interested in the masters of different genres, they're talented and popular for a reason.
Lana Del Rey
#84. The need for peace in your heart doesn't change, psi or no psi.
Lana Krumwiede
#85. I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don't have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.
Lana Del Rey
#86. You could fall and rebuild yourself an infinite amount of times, and each new you would be stronger than the last.
Lana Grayson
#87. When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.
Lana Parrilla
#88. When I look back on my career, I go, 'This is really great, I've played so many different women.'
Lana Parrilla
#89. Springsteen is the king, don't you think? I was like, hell yeah, that guy can sing.
Lana Del Rey
#90. I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
Lana Del Rey
#91. I've played Latin, I've played Italian. And I've played the all-around regular girl. I think the thing about the way I look, is that I can look like many different things. People sometimes ask me if I'm Russian. I don't think I specifically look like a Puerto Rican or an Italian. Wouldn't you agree?
Lana Parrilla
#92. I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
Lana Parrilla
#93. Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.
Lana Wachowski
#94. Even if you're the best singer in the world, there's a good chance no one will ever hear you.
Lana Del Rey
#95. I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth.
Lana Del Rey
#96. To be honest like when you work at something for a long time and then coming to a family of people who support what you do hmm ... you are very lucky!
Lana Del Rey
#97. When you get real big baby, remember that little old cowgirl. Waiting for you back in that red river valley.
Lana Del Rey
#98. My life has been a series of emergencies.
Lana Turner
#99. I don't like live television, the only tip I have is just pray.
Lana Del Rey
#100. I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
Lana Del Rey