I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.
I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books.
Now that all the beauty of my old life is gone, I crave it like good. A beautiful thing like this rose: I almost want to eat it, to swallow it whole to replace the beauty I've lost.
Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
That word, calm, sounds impossibly beautiful, gloriously uncomplicated. A water-smooth word, a word that can take the edge away from fear, gloss it over, make it shiny. Calm. Gentle.
She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldn't have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face of beauty?
Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
I could have had one life but insteads I had another because of this book my grandmother protected. What a miracle is that? I was taught to love beautiful things. I had a language in which to consider beauty. Later that extended to the opera, to the ballet, to architecture I saw, and even later still I came to realize that what I had seen in the paintings I could see in the fields or a river. I could see it in people. All of that I attribute to this book.
Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson-paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too.
One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.
Make something beautiful of your life.
Anglers find a healthy population of beautiful fish with great coloration. I've had some wonderful days when I've caught 10 or 11 fish, with several exceeding 12 inches.
That's the beauty of Brad. He can take it. He can dish it out, but he can take it, too.
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.
Yeah, ... It's a beautiful crazy cleaned-up hand and it's not mine.
Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree
I don't remember forms or faces now, but I know the girl was beautiful. I know she was for in the bright moonlight nights, when I start from my sleep, and all is quiet about me, I see, standing still and motionless in one corner of this cell, a slight and wasted figure with long black hair, which streaming down her back, stirs with no earthly wind, and eyes that fix their gaze on me, and never wink or close. . . .
I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty.
As far as I can conceive, he didn't care. He wanted people to get his ideas, to change the world and make it beautiful. Sadly, he was more famous for being the most beautiful dancer and jumping really high.
The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.
What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
I know I am very beautiful.
No woman can be a beauty without a fortune.
Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that.
Overall, it was fairly sloppily played offensively, but there was some beauty in our ability to run the ball.
The guitar, an instrument of beauty.
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
It's a wonderful day. I was at the airport, swinging my terrible towel. I was with a team with a great fan base now -- they're going to hate me for this -- but I'm with a team with an even better one. The beauty of it is I'm coming to a team that's already great. I'll just try to fit in and be part of this great organization.
Parents and teachers have brought children back. We've been told this is the most ideal Halloween event -- a high-class, sophisticated haunted house in beautiful, elaborate surroundings. We don't have to put blood anywhere, because the house and the stories are interesting enough.
I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.
The first movement begins in sustained calm with bird calls throughout. The cuckoo's call eventually evolves into a beautiful melody.
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
The second time I didn't work for a year, I gave up any dream that looked like this. I want to thank Duncan Tucker for seeing me in an off-Broadway play and writing a beautiful movie that heals and brings understanding.
A simple idea. And the man that worked on it, Mike Gabriel, doubled the value. Beautiful job. I should say triple. We have others like that, but, unfortunately, shorts, which are my favorite approach, are economically of no value.
Wouldn't it be great if we just ended up tied? I think it would be beautiful.
Miss All-American Beauty.
First, because it's unusual. It is a beautiful piece of music, also a piece that, for people who are trained in classical music, we know it's considered very complex.
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
I am beautiful, famous and gorgeous. I could have any man in the world
Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor.
There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.
The hotel team did a terrific job. They even built a lighthouse since that reminded us of Northern Germany, and a beautiful ice sculpture.
Two translations For we are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness. We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness.
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but thats not true. There are times when it depresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman.
I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I'm beautiful.
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