925 private quotes tagged beauty

“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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

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

“We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.”— Christo

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

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

“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 color.”— Alessandra Ambrosio

“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

“This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.”— Pam Grier

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

“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

“Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.”— John Philip Sousa

“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