Quotes About Beauty

It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never underestimate the power of dramatic lips.

To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.

How I grew to believe Black hair has power, genius, and magic in it, defying gravity and limitation. I mean, look at how marvelous it is: Black hair grows up and out.

No longer conscious of my movement, I discovered a new unity with nature. I had found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never dreamt existed.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

Sure, beauty has the power to excite men. But so does a box of donuts.

What really drives me is sharing the power of makeup with every woman.

My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content.

Mother nature has the power to please, to comfort, to calm, and to nature one's soul.

Let's go and get drunk on light again - it has the power to console.

If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

I'll make a beautiful corpse.

The trip across Arizona is just one oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there, I like Arizona.

You would be surprised what there is to see in this great country within 200 miles of where any of us live. I don't care what State or what town.

The day's passage was by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It read: That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?

Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

I hate flowers to death. What are they for? You cannot eat them. They die in a day. They are a complete waste of money.

She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation.

There is too such a thing as sex on legs. What it looks like might depend on your definition, but hoo boy, does it exist. Everyone's got a type that makes them stop in a crowd, turn around for a better look, and stare until they realize they're embarrassing themselves. Either that, or the wet dream walking turns around to give you the eye or flip you the finger.