- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beautiful Quotes
Beauty defined on its own terms, not just appearance.
This set treats beauty broadly: a paradise-like landscape someone calls perfect, questions about whether a ballet career stays beautiful as it winds down, and pushback against assumptions about what beautiful or capable women look like. For beauty tied to affection, see Love quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think I learned to accept myself through the eyes of others when I was young because I wasn't brought up to think that I was beautiful or told I was beautiful.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is essential in love is what the French call 'amour fou.' What is that in English? Crazy love? That doesn't sound as beautiful. It's a total kind of love that not only embraces feelings, actions, but a kind of understanding of the world from the perspective of love.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not look at myself every morning and think: 'Oh, my gosh, I am so perfect, so beautiful, so talented.' No, I like to make fun of myself.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Scoring from a metre out is just as beautiful as lobbing a goalkeeper from the halfway line.
- Most Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bayern and their fans will always be the most beautiful and most emotional story of my career.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to figure out a 'harvest system' to collect the produce that stores don't put out for customers to buy because it's not perfect looking. Frankly, the stuff left to rot in the storeroom is more beautiful to me than the perfect carrot. I'm a gnarly carrot kind of guy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I might be hitting the zeitgeist. All around you, you're looking at beautiful people that have been turned into robots. Maybe the eye is craving a little upper lip fur.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020