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Beauty Quotes


"For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us."


"I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within."


"But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell."


"Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed."


"Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God."


"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."


"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."


"One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness."


"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."


"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."


"Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?"


"Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you."


"That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty."


"Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold."


"I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night."


"Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived."


"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."


"Orange?" He seems unconvinced."Not bright orange. But soft. Like the sunset," I say. "At least, that's what you told me once."


"You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from."


"I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie."


"I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow..."
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