Quotes About Beauty

I'm not about turning back the clock or promising some magic elixir of youth. It's an acknowledgment of the fact that as we age our skin has different needs.

And she thought then how strange it was that disaster—the sort of disaster that drained the blood from your body and took the air out of your lungs and hit you again and again in the face—could be at times, such a thing of beauty.

He senses that the effort would be wasted on a pedant obsessed with etymology and grammar, ignorant of life, and willing to sacrifice the true affection he had for a modest laundress in order to please the despotic Mme Verdurin, who feels insulted by the lowly and in her eyes shameful connection. Her soirees are the only social pleasure he knows. How could he capture the beauty and complexity of a great book?

Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.

Things wither and die before us so that we may better savor that we live.

No," Tiamat said, as if she knew what I was feeling. "You are not as hideous as you think. For women, hair is like hope. It is never absent forever.

If you look at the photograph...and read: `Skunk Cabbage - a plant with thick roots, wide leaves, and disagreeable smell,` you will not want to look at the cabbage itself. But if you get down on your knees and study it (holding your breath), you will find a pattern of delicate lines, curling shapes, velvety shadows, and fresh beauty.

The fair one was the prettier, round and soft, but Magnus noticed the dark one first; her black hair was streaked with luminescent blue.

It seemed to Vera now that the beauty of the eggs, the order, the strange friendships, had been all that had held him together through the depression following her mother's death. Or maybe he'd just been a selfish bastard, with a weird passion for collecting and owning things that would have been better left in the wild.

She was big. No beauty. Bad skin and bad clothes, but lovely eyes. Brown like conkers.

He thought this must be what the moon must look like, if you

There was candlelight for which she was grateful. Recently she had noticed fine lines above her upper lip and knew that she could no longer get away with sleeveless dresses.

Beauty doesn't matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

I usually go to sleep with wet hair. When I wake up, it either has a really pretty wave, or I look like a poodle.

No matter what your hair looks like once it's wet, it's about embracing it and loving yourself for you and all that that entails.

I am intimidated by that eyeliner in a pot. You have to take a brush and wet it and then dip it in and get it straight. It's just a mess.

There's big granite walls up toward the Argentine border, but the weather's serious, and a lot of the rock is mossy and wet.

I like looking wet, sweaty, dewy, fresh.

Eyeliner changes everything! I also think a little lip-gloss or lipstick can brighten up your whole look, even after a practice when your hair is still a little bit wet!

I'm a big SkinCeuticals girl. I use their hyaluronic acid when my skin is a little wet, and I let it soak in.

I come from a background where there would be one mirror above the basin that was used by everyone in the house. If you spent more than five minutes in front of the mirror, you would probably get a whack. My mother was so strict that if anyone complimented me for being pretty, she would not encourage that discussion.

The U.K. perception of beauty is totally out of whack.

I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the big blue whale. The scale of it is unbelievable, and makes you feel how insignificant you are as a human being.