Lotte Quotes

#1. Lotte watched Peter's fingers gently massaging his forehead and felt a wave of affection. The slightest stress - anxiety, embarrassment, confusion - brought his hand to his brow, like a thumb to the mouth of a child.

Prue Leith

#2. You have always given me more than I gave to you. You were the wings on which I soared.
Lotte Lehmann

Lotte Lehmann

#3. I don't mean to change the subject or anything, but have you tried concealer on that zit?
Cynthia Lotte - Hot Six

Janet Evanovich

#4. I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

Marianne Faithfull

#5. In making portraits, I refuse to photograph myself as do so many photographers. My style is the style of the people I photograph.

Lotte Jacobi

#6. [I have] a heavenly vase full of autumn leaves today. They look so beautiful. How much closer to God can one get? And a beautiful blue heron flew over the brook. Nature can make me cry faster than anything.

Lotte Lenya

#7. I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

Lotte Lehmann

#8. The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world.

Lotte Lehmann

#9. The must have it now mentality, was man's first step into the gorging of his natural home.

Lotte Hass

#10. Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men's minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.

Jonathan Edwards

#11. Even if you are threatened with death, look at your situation right in the eye and praise the Lord

Sunday Adelaja

#12. For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony ...

Lotte Lehmann

#13. The people you're friends with on Facebook or the people you follow on Twitter are trusted sources of information.

Jonathan Klein

#14. I wrote a lot of poetry when I was a teenager - mostly desperate love poetry!

Paula McLain

#15. I was to be a photographer and that was that. It did everything for me. I love people. I needed the camera more than ever I would have believed.

Lotte Jacobi

#16. That weekend the city blushed with a great heat wave but on Monday it rained, cooling the ache in the street's burn.

Daniel Amory

#17. All the technique you can learn - and you should learn everything you can - you should have it here in the fingers not here in the head - and then you forget about it.

Lotte Jacobi

#18. Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

David Hilbert

#19. fixed Alice with her eyes

Katherine Mansfield

#20. I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

Lotte Reiniger

#21. If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life ... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'

P. J. O'Rourke

#22. He never gave up. And he does that for us

Steven Spielberg

#23. But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

Lotte Lehmann

#24. [To the audience at her farewell concert:] You have always given me more than I gave to you ... You were the wings on which I soared.

Lotte Lehmann

#25. Dean Martin always dressed very well but then he was a good looking fella with a good physique so he could wear anything.

Tom Jones

#26. Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.

Lotte Lehmann

#27. When I do a film that has nothing to do with Kurt Weill, then I am happy, I am on my own. But in a Kurt Weill work I am as nervous as a cat. A burden falls on my shoulders. I feel a crushing responsibility.

Lotte Lenya

#28. No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God. Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.

Ann Coulter

#29. [Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.

Lotte Lenya

#30. Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.
("Talking In The Dark")

Dennis Etchison

#31. Why had Althea's crazed words affected Etta like this? Then the answer came to him: she was pregnant. Women always behaved strangely when they were pregnant.

Robin Hobb