Quotes About Beauty

A single note, held in an amber suspension of time, like a charcoal drawing of Icarus falling. It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity. It went on and on, until my own lungs were burning. "What bird are you calling?" I asked finally, when I couldn't stand it any longer. The Bird Man stopped whistling. He grinned, so that I could see all his pebbly teeth. "You.

Beauty is nothing without brains & heart.

Please never stop wanting to collect seashells, taste snowflakes. blow bubbles, smell beautiful flowers, smile at dogs, be amazed by rainbows...okay?

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.

Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

I think that her life was about finding the extraordinary in every day. It was how she could sit in her garden on a rainy day and see the beauty in it. It's what got her out of bed every morning.

It still amazed me sometimes when I caught sight of myself in a mirror. I would be startled to see the stranger there, as if still expecting to see my blond hair and tight skin, my hands with long, straight fingers. Age was a thief, an insidious one who instead of robbing you at night while you slept took all of your possessions one by one and forced you to watch.

Looking pretty isn't about how people see you. It's about letting people know how you feel about yourself.

Rainbows always gave her hope—hope that something beautiful waited for those strong enough to survive the storm.

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It's who you are. You're like a hummingbird, defying reality, a beautiful mystery, spreading your sweetness to all the needy flowers. Well, I'm no pretty garden blossom and I don't need your brand of sugar.

The accents were almost musical, though not as pretty as the ones I used to eavesdrop upon, lying on a sun-drenched roof above lower balconies.

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

No one wants to see curvy women.

We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world.

I love classic beauty. It's an idea of beauty with no standard.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

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And shall I clutch at dear departing things While leaf and tree in silent splendor part? Go, little joys! and welcome, fluttering wings That brush my clinging sorrows from my heart!

I have long made friends with the open sky-- Rough are its ways, but true.