beauty

Quotations

Quotations on the topic of ‘beauty’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).

  • “I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.” -Albrecht Durer

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  • “Most urgently, women’s identity must be premised upon our ‘beauty’ so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.” -Naomi Wolf

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  • “I like to dedicate myself wholeheartedly to a cause so that I have more impact. My goal is to shed light on the beauty of the ocean and how important it is for our planet.” -Hayden Panettiere

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  • “Congress has an obligation to protect our country’s natural beauty, embodied in our nation’s parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.” -Dave Reichert

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  • “I’m a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.” -Melanie Fiona

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  • “I think one of the things that language poets are very involved with is getting away from conventional ideas of beauty, because those ideas contain a certain attitude toward women, certain attitudes toward sex, certain attitudes toward race, etc.” -Diane Wakoski

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  • “It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.” -Max Eastman

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  • “For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.” -Richard Morris

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  • “I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.” -Julia Margaret Cameron

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  • “The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.” -Northrop Frye

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  • “It’s how you look at beauty. Is it only an outward appearance with hair and makeup and a hot body, or is it something deeper than that?” -Hilary Swank

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  • “Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.” -Marianne Moore

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  • “Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I’m in my fifties and sixties and this isn’t what I’m going to look like.” -Rose Byrne

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  • “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” -Oliver Platt

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  • “But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.” -Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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  • “My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how…

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  • “What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.” -Gertrude Jekyll

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  • “And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.” -Lisa See

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  • “One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.” -Edward Witten

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  • “My beauty icon is Angelina Jolie.” -Ashley Benson

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  • “It’s not like I’m sitting at home coming up with some secret beauty plan.” -Lara Stone

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  • “Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.” -Goldwin Smith

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  • “Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.” -Fanny Brice

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  • “We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains.” -Roy Barnes

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  • “I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.” -Octavia Spencer

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  • “I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.” -Candice Swanepoel

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  • “Latin life is rich with warmth, family values and history. I want to bring that beauty into American homes.” -Cristina Saralegui

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  • “Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone – the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it’s sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.” -Zachary Levi

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  • “Listening to my regular favourites – Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on – I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.” -Jane Asher

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  • “The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.” -Farrah Fawcett

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  • “I love my beauty. It’s not my fault.” -Valentino Garavani

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  • “A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.” -William C. Bryant

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  • “My mother is a beauty.” -Mary-Louise Parker

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  • “Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end – therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further.” -Joan Chen

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  • “No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.” -Jean Toomer

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  • “The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop – is to pause – and when the caravan goes away,…

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  • “Sometimes I think I might not have written ‘The Age of Miracles’ if I hadn’t grown up in California, if I hadn’t been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.” -Karen Thompson Walker

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  • “The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you’re going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.” -Danny Elfman

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  • “Beauty seen is never lost, God’s colors all are fast.” -John Greenleaf Whittier

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  • “If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we’d see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.” -Conor Oberst

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  • “Unless action is taken soon – unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period – we will lose the treasure of California’s open space and environmental beauty.” -Adam Schiff

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  • “Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.” -John Philip Sousa

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  • “I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.” -Bill Griffith

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  • “I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ the only one I could get tickets for, and then ‘Les Miserables’ and then ‘Chicago.’” -America Ferrera

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  • “My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.” -Roberto Benigni

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  • “A woman’s beauty is one of her great missions.” -Richard Le Gallienne

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  • “I’ve developed into quite a swan. I’m one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.” -Rufus Wainwright

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  • “I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.” -Elliott Erwitt

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  • “Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.” -Susie Orbach

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  • “The real beauty of it – key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.” -Vince Gill

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  • “In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics – an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.” -Douglas Sirk

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  • “My mom was an aesthetician and she went to beauty school back in the ’60s. I just remember watching her do her makeup all the time. She always had her nails done, makeup on – her face was ready to go when she went out. I loved it.” -Emmanuelle Chriqui

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  • “This whole beauty thing is something I’ve never comprehended.” -Pam Grier

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  • “I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.” -James Weldon Johnson

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  • “And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.” -Christo

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  • “Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?” -Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

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  • “Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.” -Matthew Arnold

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  • “The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.” -Gustav Stresemann

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  • “We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.” -Rem Koolhaas

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  • “He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.” -John Galsworthy

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  • “Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty – as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.” -Florence King

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  • “I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio… It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that’s what this story represents to me.” -Gerard Butler

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  • “Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.” -Richard Armour

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  • “That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.” -Ken Thompson

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  • “When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you’re destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.” -Alexis Arguello

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  • “One of my favorite beauty products is Vincent Longo Water Canvas creamy blush. I have it in every color and I’ve been using it for 5 years and that’s all I put on when I leave the house. It looks so natural I just put a little bit on my cheeks to give them some…

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  • “Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.” -Donald Knuth

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  • “I’m always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn’t be worried about beauty.” -Susan Estrich

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  • “It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one’s treasure will not win one anyone’s favours one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone’s camp… Beauty is the word that shall be our first.” -Hans Urs von Balthasar

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  • “When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.” -Vladimir Kramnik

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  • “I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don’t feel desperate. It’s not about creating or building a career.” -Lisa Bonet

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  • “Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events… and nothing is like the fights to me. I’m excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.” -LeRoy Neiman

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  • “I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That’s where my heart lies.” -Mark Burnett

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  • “It’s just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?” -Robin Wright Penn

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  • “Never once does ‘Snow White’ herself look in the mirror so she isn’t aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It’s really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.” -Lily Collins

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  • “I didn’t grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny – those are the things I got feedback on.” -Lauren Graham

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  • “My mama told me in college, ‘I love you, and you’re God’s child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.’” -Robin Roberts

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  • “I have learned that acting is not about beauty.” -Vincent Cassel

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  • “Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.” -Arne Jacobsen

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  • “I am thrilled to be able to bring my vision of beauty to others who may be inspired by it.” -Carol Alt

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  • “I’m still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it’s generic beauty, but it’s weird to be valued for something I was born with.” -Josie Maran

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  • “It’s hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.” -Story Musgrave

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  • “It’s not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.” -Rosanna Arquette

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  • “Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.” -John Millington Synge

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  • “But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life – namely, Beauty.” -Georg Brandes

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  • “Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.” -Richard Steele

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  • “So, we just kind of created our own thing and that’s part of the beauty of Athens: is that it’s so off the map and there’s no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.” -Michael Stipe

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  • “Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.” -Liv Tyler

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  • “I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.” -Jean Genet

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  • “As a mom, I don’t have much time for beauty.” -Idina Menzel

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  • “The pattern of a newspaperman’s life is like the plot of ‘Black Beauty.’ Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and…

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  • “The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.” -Michel Gondry

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  • “As a girl, you’re supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?” -Ellen Page

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  • “Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that’s the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.” -Janelle Monae

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  • “I know that I’ve got big ears and a big forehead and that my hair sticks up. But I’m happy with myself. I’m not necessarily trying to win a beauty pageant here.” -Clay Aiken

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  • “My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.” -Justin Cronin

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  • “I really believe that beauty comes from health – sensible eating and exercise.” -Dita Von Teese

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  • “I do not see any beauty in self-restraint.” -Mary MacLane

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  • “Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and orange and yellow, like Burger King or something. I don’t think I would have liked Beauty and the Beast at any age.” -Mike Judge

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  • “All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.” -Evelyn Underhill

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  • “Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.” -Delta Burke

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  • “The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.” -Ruth St. Denis

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  • “The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.” -Edwin Way Teale

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  • “Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?” -Sara Teasdale

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  • “Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that’s why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that’s kind of…

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  • “I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I’m going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I’m not having any work done.” -Rachel Bilson

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  • “You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.” -William Temple

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  • “So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.” -Rowan D. Williams

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  • “Music, art, theater. I’m just a big fan of beauty.” -Jerry Hall

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  • “There’s a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn’t have if the music wasn’t there.” -Mike Figgis

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  • “The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.” -Walter Benjamin

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  • “The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.” -Robert Musil

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  • “I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.” -Rachel Roy

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  • “There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.” -Helena Christensen

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  • “I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he’d shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.” -Mariel Hemingway

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  • “Beauty comes from the inside.” -Kathy Ireland

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  • “The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.” -James Baldwin

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  • “For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.” -John Cheever

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  • “After ‘Freaks and Geeks,’ I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of ‘Dawson’s Creek,’ and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it’s not something I’m…

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  • “Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.” -Tia Carrere

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  • “Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.” -Marcus V. Pollio

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  • “That’s the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn’t make any difference where the theme comes from the treatment of it can be jazz.” -Dave Brubeck

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  • “Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It’s exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. There’s a hardness to the culture, but at the same time there’s a delicateness.” -Paz Vega

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  • “This is the artist, then, life’s hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty’s miser, glory’s slave.” -Tom Wolfe

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  • “One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.” -Walter Pater

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  • “I mean the beauty of being a writer is it’s not like being a swimmer. When they were talking about our Olympic swimmers and they’d say, ‘Oh she’s so old,’ and she’s all of 25 or something. So the beauty for a writer is that you can keep doing it right into your dotage, and…

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  • “I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don’t mind her anymore. She’s okay. We’ve become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.” -Kim Novak

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  • “I think beauty comes from within. If you’re happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.” -Faith Hill

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  • “I think there’s a great beauty to having problems. That’s one of the ways we learn.” -Herbie Hancock

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  • “Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.” -Frank Norris

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  • “People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don’t have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.” -Candice Bergen

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  • “People tend not to use this word beauty because it’s not intellectual – but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.” -Tadao Ando

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  • “Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.” -George Henry Lewes

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  • “The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.” -Robert Caro

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  • “Every performance is different. That’s the beauty of it.” -Van Morrison

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  • “We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.” -Shay Mitchell

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  • “One night I’ll be in Los Angeles and it’ll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I’ll go to Fresno and it’ll be an all-black crowd. To me, that’s the beauty of the music.” -Pitbull

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  • “That’s the beauty of being a comedian – it’s the one job you’re allowed to do that. We’re lucky. We’re really lucky.” -Colin Quinn

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  • “The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What’s amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.” -Hugh Hefner

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  • “I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.” -Don DeLillo

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  • “The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You’re finished.” -Sheryl Crow

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  • “Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can’t look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.” -Frank Miller

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  • “I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty’s, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It’s legendary!” -Gail Simmons

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  • “A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.” -Rudolf Otto

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  • “Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.” -Lindsay Wagner

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  • “I’m flatchested, I’m short, I’m brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a ‘beauty.’” -Selma Blair

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  • “Los Angeles is like a beauty parlor at the end of the universe.” -Emily Mortimer

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  • “There’s no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It’s beautiful, I call that beauty.” -Celine Dion

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  • “I’m proud that today, at 43 years old, I’ve come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.” -Carre Otis

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  • “A supermodel needed to be able to be on ‘Sports Illustrated,’ to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don’t know…

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  • “Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.” -Ouida

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  • “I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.” -Janis Ian

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  • “It’s nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.” -Victoria Justice

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  • “A few years ago I lost 30 pounds, and people still wanted to criticize. And honestly, I’m happy with myself if I’m a little heavier. I realized: ‘Why am I trying to conform to someone else’s idea of beauty?’ I think I’m beautiful either way.” -Khloe Kardashian

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  • “We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.” -Patricia Sun

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  • “If I weren’t performing, I’d be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone’s problems – like a beauty therapist!” -Beyonce Knowles

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  • “You don’t know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don’t talk to you. There’s very little interaction.” -Helmut Jahn

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  • “A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.” -Gaston Bachelard

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  • “Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.” -Claude Debussy

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  • “The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.” -Ninon de L’Enclos

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  • “As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats I am only surprised that all do not.” -Carl Van Vechten

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  • “What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.” -Joseph Brodsky

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  • “Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.” -Eugene Ionesco

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  • “A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.” -Andrew Weil

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  • “The game in beauty is changing so much, if your product isn’t high tech or can’t make a unique performance claim – plump your lips, reduce your lines, look glossy, and stay on for 24 hours – you can’t go to market today. I’m not just talking about a $20 lipstick, but a $5 lipstick!”…

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  • “There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.” -June Jordan

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  • “I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.” -Tom Ford

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  • “Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.” -George Edward Moore

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  • “Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.” -William Shenstone

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  • “Power and beauty come from a very deep place.” -Brooke Burke

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  • “Beauty can’t amuse you, but brainwork – reading, writing, thinking – can.” -Helen Gurley Brown

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  • “Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remember being a little girl and hearing all the commotion in my house from my mom, aunts and grandmother when picking out their wigs for the day. It was such a good time for them…

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  • “I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It’s my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial.” -Martina McBride

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  • “The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don’t know they are.” -Kathy Griffin

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  • “I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy a strength a secret cup of gladness.” -Ossie Davis

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  • “I’m only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.” -Jude Law

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  • “My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn’t have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.” -Jessica Ennis

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  • “The English Bible – a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.” -Thomas B. Macaulay

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  • “I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.” -Pamela Anderson

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  • “My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and…

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