Quotes About Beauty

I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew. We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn't want to be all dressed up, all made up - I wanted to be myself, which hadn't been done before.

Modeling and pageants help me overcome feeling insecure about the way that I look and my height.

Don't overdo it. If you're doing a strong lip, keep the eyes simple, and the other way around.

My approach in general is to take really great care of my skin, but I try not to overdo it and not use too many crazy products.

The biggest thing I have learnt is not to overdo make-up - less is more.

Everyone is taking selfies. Everyone's actually getting that - looking at themselves and they filter. Now if they do a little filtering, it's OK because they want to look like a better version of themself. Overdoing it though can be a little bit more of that dysmorphic issue where it's not a good thing.

One of my dreams was always to have a piano - a room with a piano overlooking the ocean or a lake.

Often, I do translatlantic overnight flights from New York, and when I land, I have to do my eyes - I feel weird without it.

I am fine with the fact that some of my hair is gray. If it was all gray overnight, that would be a scary thing.

I never really wear any make-up on my face, like foundation or anything - and I really wouldn't advise that you leave that on your skin at night - but I do often leave on my eye make-up overnight. I actually prefer it the next day; it looks more worn-in.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

I don't mind being good looking but that should not override all my other attributes.

I've always been an overweight girl, and I've never had an issue with that. I'm very comfortable with my body.

Certainly I'm not overweight. I'm the perfect weight for my height.

Fashion is quite inclusive and good at embracing different things and different forms of beauty. It's a very liberal industry. You can be yourself. Just not overweight.

When I was overweight, people called me cute.

There is always a reason behind things that are made, and if there isn't, there will be one when they travel through the world. The objects of beauty are used to impress, seduce, overwhelm, make money, support identities, and show power or style, among other things.

It's just kind of empowering when you become a mother. You just get overwhelmed with this new confidence and you feel really in control of your life. It's been beautiful.

I was so overwhelmed by the amazing response I had from thousands of women saying they felt beautiful in my first collection, I wanted to design more clothes they could love themselves in.

I think the 1970s will always be the decade for me. Obviously, I grew up in that era, but the beauty standard was touchable, kissable.

I do struggle because I'm attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.

I try to be nice, I try to respect other people, but over the years I've learned that all this stuff we do is a bunch of crap. That doesn't mean it doesn't have its place. We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?

field beyond field beyond field of well-kept cotton, each tuft white as a senator's eyebrow.

I'd never thought much about the moon before I got this job. But I love it here. I can spend hours just looking out at the stars and the rocks. It makes me feel very peaceful.