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).
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“The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.” -Clifford Geertz
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“I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.” -Rachel Stevens
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“I love the game, it’s the greatest game on earth, that’s why I can’t understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That’s the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.” -Eric…
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“Nothing surpasses the beauty and elegance of a bad idea.” -Craig Bruce
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“Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.” -Paul Klee
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“Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?” -Jeb Bush
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“I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn’t have a nose job and money and if you weren’t thin, you weren’t cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn’t pretty enough to be on television.” -Lea Michele
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“But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.” -Roger Penrose
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“What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.” -Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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“I like the beauty of Faulkner’s poetry. But I don’t like his themes, not at all.” -Manuel Puig
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“You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it.” -Edward James Olmos
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“You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.” -Giuseppe Garibaldi
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“All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.” -Marguerite Young
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“I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.” -Sharon Stone
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“The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.” -Murray Kempton
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“Well I’ve written four beauty books as well.” -Joan Collins
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“I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I’m really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.” -Halle Berry
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“As Ralph’s character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That’s the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.” -Rachel Weisz
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“Bologna is the best city in Italy for food and has the least number of tourists. With its medieval beauty, it has it all.” -Mario Batali
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“Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only…
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“She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.” -Christina Rossetti
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“I really like to be able to have variety and to try different things – that’s the beauty of fashion.” -Leighton Meester
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“Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.” -Tahar Ben Jelloun
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“It’s the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you’ve got nothing to talk about and other days Dick Cheney shoots his lawyer in the face and everyone is happy.” -Craig Ferguson
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“The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.” -George Sand
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“The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it’s a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn’t change – it hasn’t suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It’s still a cowboy movie. And that’s what’s incredible about it because nobody has done that…
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“With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn’t just about being noticed, you know?” -Mos Def
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“Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?” -Tony Kushner
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“Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a ‘universal’ without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.” -Chaim Potok
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“I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life’s mystery and unpredictability, of life’s generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.” -Jane Smiley
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“Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.” -Gwyneth Paltrow
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“I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.” -Howard Lindsay
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“People don’t associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.” -Shirley Manson
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“I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn’t eradicate the reality of the suffering. It’s all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.” -George Saunders
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“Physical beauty is such a strange thing.” -Jock Sturges
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“I was kind of a jock in school. Beauty wasn’t something I spent a lot of time on.” -Nina Dobrev
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“I’m very accepting with my age. It’s like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you’ve become comfortable in your skin.” -Zoe Saldana
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“My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.” -Christopher Meloni
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“My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.” -Rachel McAdams
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“It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.” -Thornton Wilder
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“Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.” -Gabrielle Union
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“Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You’ve got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I’ve got my Freud mixed up. It’s just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.” -Vera Farmiga
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“Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.” -Jane Seymour
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“I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn’t doing.” -Theodore Bikel
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“Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?” -Paul Gauguin
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“You can’t possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you’ve felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.” -Sloane Crosley
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“I like the idea of accessibility, coming from a lower-middle-class background myself, I feel like beauty and products should be accessible to all women over the world.” -Diane Kruger
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“Now, I’m not saying I’m fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion.” -Miuccia Prada
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“Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.” -Jean Rostand
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“When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.” -Agnes Martin
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“The very definition of ‘beauty’ is outside.” -Adam Carolla
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“These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty they are in showbiz, and showing what they’ve got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney.” -Julie Burchill
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“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.” -David Allan Coe
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“One of the things that people don’t realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.” -Ed Rendell
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“Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn’t mean it does not exist.” -Margaret Cho
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“I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied.” -Robert Mapplethorpe
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“They saw me, those reckless seekers of beauty, and in a night I was famous.” -Lillie Langtry
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“Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.” -Gustav Mahler
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“I think the beauty of working with young people is they remind you of the spirit of acting and it’s just a big play.” -Eric Bana
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“I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don’t expect it.” -Jean Paul Gaultier
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“Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding.” -Gian Carlo Menotti
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“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.” -Pearl S. Buck
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“Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don’t recognize our own beauty because we’re too busy comparing ourselves to other people.” -Kelly Osbourne
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“But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.” -Lafcadio Hearn
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“Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.” -Jonathan Sacks
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“I’ve actually spent a lot of time researching beauty products, how they are produced and how they are sold.” -Lauren Conrad
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“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.” -Thomas Mann
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“What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.” -Hu Shih
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“Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.” -Theophile Gautier
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“Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.” -Matthew Fox
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“When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.” -Christy Turlington
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“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.” -Robert Browning
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“I don’t get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments.” -Jennifer Lopez
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“Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain.” -Martha Beck
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“Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.” -Louis Kahn
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“Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.” -Gerard Manley Hopkins
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“Well, I’ve never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.” -Cate Blanchett
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“After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of ‘Glee,’ a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of ‘spirit fingers’ to chase our cares and woes into somebody else’s backyard.” -James Wolcott
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“Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.” -Jean-Luc Godard
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“Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.” -Dave Grohl
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“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.” -Petrarch
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“I didn’t have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.” -Meryl Streep
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“I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.” -Roberto Cavalli
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“I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.” -Jack London
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“I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don’t have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.” -Jacqueline Bisset
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“Italian men do appreciate beautiful women. They’re not afraid of the beauty, which is nice.” -Eva Herzigova
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“The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.” -Imelda Marcos
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“Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls.” -Rashida Jones
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“I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.” -Wallace Stevens
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“Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.” -King Hussein I
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“Beauty is nature’s brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.” -John Milton
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“The beauty of ‘spacing’ children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones – which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.” -Sydney J. Harris
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“Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.” -Henry Drummond
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“I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art – and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.” -Marcel Duchamp
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“You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.” -Marie Stopes
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“Often, the roles I’m offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.” -Kristin Scott Thomas
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“I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.” -Ben Okri
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“Lila can’t be a model until she’s at least 21. She is already a mini-me – it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.” -Kate Moss
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“I’m really proud of myself because I’ve pared my beauty regimen down to a cream blush and berry-tinted lip balm, which has saved me so much time.” -Katherine Heigl
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“Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.” -Gene Tierney
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“I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.” -Studs Terkel
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“The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.” -Eliza Farnham
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“It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement the greatest source of visual beauty the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.” -David Attenborough
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“Beauty is only skin deep, but it’s a valuable asset if you’re poor or haven’t any sense.” -Vernon Howard
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“There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.” -Anna Quindlen
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“The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.” -Sallust
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“A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed to always know. It’s subterranean.” -Billie Joe Armstrong
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“It’s such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.” -Danica McKellar
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“My beauty secret is absolutely no sun.” -Vivienne Westwood
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“Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.” -Neil Gaiman
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“As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.” -Annie Dillard
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“Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.” -Edward Gibbon
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“Beauty is often worse than wine intoxicating both the holder and beholder.” -John Zimmerman
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“All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.” -Michael Franti
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“I like to embrace natural beauty. I try to get at least 8 hours of sleep, drinking a lot of water and exercising.” -Tia Mowry
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“I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.” -Alexander McQueen
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“The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.” -Susan Sontag
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“Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.” -Camille Paglia
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“You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.” -Boris Pasternak
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“A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.” -Xenophon
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“It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.” -Anthony Kiedis
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“I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?” -Jean Kerr
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“Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don’t have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there’s poetry written right on the bathroom wall.” -Ani DiFranco
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“I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or ‘What size do you wear?’ or ‘Who’s your couturier?’ They ask me about really deep things and I love that.” -Shirley MacLaine
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“Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.” -George Bancroft
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“The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.” -Sarah Bernhardt
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“The pain passes, but the beauty remains.” -Auguste Renoir
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“I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect – they are much more interesting.” -Marc Jacobs
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“There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.” -John Clayton
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“But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.” -Lascelles Abercrombie
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“Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.” -Jeanne Moreau
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“When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty – they were coming from a universal and personal place.” -Annie Lennox
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“Beauty is grace and confidence. I’ve learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.” -Lindsay Lohan
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“I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.” -Plautus
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“Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.” -Kevyn Aucoin
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“Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.” -David Hume
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“Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.” -Anne Lamott
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“Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.” -Helen Rowland
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“By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.” -Hannah Arendt
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“For all of nature’s wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.” -Liam Neeson
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“Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.” -James Hillman
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“Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside.” -Emmanuelle Beart
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“I’m not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.” -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.” -Paul Getty
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“Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.” -Arthur Erickson
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“I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.” -Peggy Fleming
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“Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.” -Serge Gainsbourg
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“I’ve never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there’s just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.” -Stephen Fry
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“Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“The key to education is the experience of beauty.” -Friedrich Schiller
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“Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.” -Christina Aguilera
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“Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.” -Eartha Kitt
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“Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.” -Lord Chesterfield
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“Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.” -Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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“I slept and dreamt that life was beauty I woke and found that life was duty.” -George Byron
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“It’s not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.” -Robert Plant
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“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.” -Havelock Ellis
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“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.” -Roy Ayers
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“Walk on a rainbow trail walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.” -Robert Motherwell
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“I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty… in every form.” -Joan Crawford
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“Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.” -Pope Paul VI
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“Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.” -Nikos Kazantzakis
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“People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.” -Salma Hayek
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“Beauty opened all the doors it got me things I didn’t even know I wanted, and things I certainly didn’t deserve.” -Janice Dickinson
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“I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“I was always reading those beauty magazines and wanting to become this unattainable thing.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.” -Jerry Saltz
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“In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.” -Phil Ochs
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“During the 80s and 90s, we all became consumed with ourselves. In the 21st century, we’ve come back to simpler times. People are struggling economically and this has forced them to scale back the material aspects of their lives and realise the beauty of finding the simple joy in being with the people we love.”…
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“Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.” -Jean Paul
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“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
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“Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.” -Alanis Morissette
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“Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.” -Andre Breton
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“This is the beauty of the Qur’an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur’an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God’s creation in general.” -Cat Stevens
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