925 private quotes tagged beauty

“I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.” — Shirley MacLaine

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“We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.” — Mary McDonnell

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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 is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.” — Walter Hagen

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“I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.” — Alexander McQueen

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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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“It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.” — Robert Plant

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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 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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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.” — Benjamin Britten

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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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“Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.” — Rashida Jones

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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 study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.” — Charles Baudelaire

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“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.” — Chanakya

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“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.” — Bob Dylan

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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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“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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“As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.” — Annie Dillard

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“Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.” — Martha Beck

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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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“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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“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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“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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“The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.” — Audrey Hepburn

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