Quotes About Beauty

He felt a little like the keeper of an unpredictable wild beast, beautiful in its unchained splendour, purring and rubbing against him, but able to turn on him without warning.

We stripped the flower of its foilage and purred and rubbed our faces across its flesh.

He painted beautiful demons that smiled with frightening realism from the canvas; demons that-even though only representations in paint-promised pain and pleasure in equal measure.

I had never seen such magnificent people, and their magnificence came from inside them, I could tell, an innate beauty that eclipsed the self-conscious loveliness of Kalkydra and his kind.

She recognized the body language of self-loathing. Something would have to be done about that. The dog in him must be expelled. He must become cat: pampered, svelte, spoiled, confident of his own unique beauty. It would be a pleasure to teach him that.

By his side, Owen was standing with his head thrown back, his eyes peacefully closed, lips parted. Othman realised the boy was really quite beautiful. He looked like a dying saint, or someone inviting a kiss.

There: the child, her lovely gleam, her bright innocence, so trusting. And she too reaches out to us.

Pharinet, you are the daughter of the waves! Lashing and eroding the rocks of male resolve.

He is as prickly as a bowl of shards, but he appreciates attractive things.

She looked enchanting, wearing a simple, long black dress, her hair held back with a silky scarf. She had painted her lips with a smudge of pale lipstick and her lashes were spiky with mascara.

Lead her. Guide her. Oh, it will be our privelege, sweet child. I am breathless before the beauty of her naked soul.

Once we had crossed the line that separated this unpredictable land from the normal world, I began to understand its symbolic nature. There was a weird beauty in the tumbled shapes beside the old road, and a kind of dignity.

If a body should fall from that window, its flight would be impeded by the stone arms of caryatids and gargoyles, or else impaled. I could see him thinking of his own death, and he was achingly lovely as he did so: the archetype of all the boys ever loved by kings. His hair, unbound, flowed down him like a veil; the colour of dark honey. His eye, in profile, was slightly slanted, its cat-like shape accentuated by a kiss of kohl.

Tatrini watched Tayven and Rav outside, as they sat on the lawn: a picture of contentment and innocence.

she noticed that the moon, so clear in the sky, had lost her first slice; the dark was on its way.

His face was finely-boned and should have appeared handsome, but there was something repellant about him that had little to do with appearances.

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.

That's the trouble with science. It has to explain beauty. It can't just let it be.

That's what I have told people who have asked for advice through the years: focus on what is beautiful and pursue that beauty.

This inability of Americans to value intellect is, to me, maddening. If someone possesses physical beauty, they will not be cloistered or hidden in dark shadows.

There is no such thing as unnecessary beauty, whether it be physical or intellectual.

I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.

She had everything in there snow white. And that means work, believe me. In the dining room she had a blue set, she had sky-blue chairs. They had a bedroom with pink and blue. I look and say, "I know what this means." It means sho' 'nough — knees.

Sometimes we want to get away from the busy and hectic city life to find solace in the raging waves of the ocean pounding on the rocks or the turbulent splashing of a bubbling waterfall. At other times we are amazed by the immovable silence of a mountain or the gentle caress of a river overjoyed tat its union with the sea. The topography of a region speaks to each one of us--a secret language that people from all facets of life understand and relate to.