925 private quotes tagged beauty

“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

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

“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 insecure about.”— Busy Philipps

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

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

“Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.”— John Greenleaf Whittier

“Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.”— James De La Vega

“I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.”— Pam Grier

“There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.”— Gustav Stickley

“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

“The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.”— Gustave Courbet

“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

“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

“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

“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

“It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality.”— Rosanna Arquette