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Beauty Quotes

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"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."
Salvador Dali
"The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot."
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"The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other."
George H. Mead
"The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other."
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"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."
Andre Breton
"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."
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"It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality."
Rosanna Arquette
"It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality."
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"When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out."
Christy Turlington
"When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out."
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"I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within."
Christy Turlington
"I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within."
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"Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty."
Herbert Gold
"Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty."
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"The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."
Thomas B. Macaulay
"The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."
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"Beauty is a fragile gift."
Ovid
"Beauty is a fragile gift."
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"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
David Hockney
"The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist."
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"To find beauty, look above the boundaries of conformity."
Debasish Mridha
"To find beauty, look above the boundaries of conformity."
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"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."
Henry Rollins
"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."
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"Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me."
Gwyneth Paltrow
"Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don't have that many good years left in me."
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"This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended."
Pam Grier
"This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended."
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"Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness."
Hans Urs von Balthasar
"Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness."
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"Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong."
Adriana Lima
"Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong."
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"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."
Tahar Ben Jelloun
"Beauty is first and foremost an emotion."
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"It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all costs and health will take care of itself."
Bill Munson
"It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all costs and health will take care of itself."
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"Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards."
Saskya Pandita
"Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards."
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"Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head and her lips were parted."
John Steinbeck
"Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head and her lips were parted."
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"Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail."
Robert Motherwell
"Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail."
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"Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty."
Stephen Hawking
"Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty."
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"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind."
Socrates
"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind."
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"The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men."
Michel de Montaigne
"The beauty of stature is the only beauty of men."
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"I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true."
Gwyneth Paltrow
"I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true."
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"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."
Helena Christensen
"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."
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"Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind."
James Hillman
"Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind."
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"There is a kind of beauty in imperfection."
Conrad Hall
"There is a kind of beauty in imperfection."
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"I am a thing of beauty."
Frank Sinatra
"I am a thing of beauty."
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"I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance."
Pam Grier
"I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance."
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"Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit."
Jennifer Lopez
"Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit."
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"The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory."
Harrison Ford
"The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory."
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"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."
Hunter S. Thompson
"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."
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"Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior."
Candice Bergen
"Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior."
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"The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space."
Ruth St. Denis
"The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space."
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"What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible."
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
"What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible."
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"Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone."
Redd Foxx
"Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone."
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"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."
Christopher Morley
"All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim."
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"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."
Sophia Loren
"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."
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"The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations."
Robert Caro
"The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations."
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"As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul."
Rachel Weisz
"As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul."
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"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."
Maria Mitchell
"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."
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"The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves."
Walt Whitman
"The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves."
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"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."
Gaston Bachelard
"A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language."
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"So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order."
Rowan D. Williams
"So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order."
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"People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them."
Judith Jamison
"People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them."
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"The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain."
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"When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences."
Frederick Sanger
"When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences."
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"This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile."
Wislawa Szymborska
"This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile."
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"I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied."
Julia Margaret Cameron
"I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied."
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