Beautiful Things Quotes - Page 7

• I wasn't trying to modelI'm not sure where it's going, apart from the pleasure of making beautiful thingsI said I wasn't going to model after having my son. Now I just think, 'Fine, I enjoy the people a lot.' And I haven't found a better part-time job.

  Stella Tennant

  Beautiful, Jobs, Son

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• It seems totally unfair that the way we look matters so much. I mean, why can't we just get over this gotta-be-thin-and-beautiful thing? Why can't we just accept ourselves and others for what we are?

  Melody Carlson

  Beautiful, Mean, Looks

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• A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price

  Alex Flinn

  Beautiful, Matter, Beastly

  Alex Flinn (2009). “Beastly”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Beautiful things never last. That’s why fireflies flash.

  Ron Pope

  Beautiful, Firefly, Lasts

  Song: Fireflies, Album: Daylight

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• Any intelligent person knows that life is a beautiful thing and that the purpose of life is to be happy," said my father as he watched the three beauties. "But it seems only idiots are ever happy. How can we explain this?

  Orhan Pamuk

  Beautiful, Father, Intelligent

  Orhan Pamuk (2011). “The Museum of Innocence”, p.144, Faber & Faber

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• Don't die on me," she ordered. "You are not dying on me." "Yes, ma'am." He felt light-headed, but she was about the most beautiful thing he'd ever seen. Her hair was smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arm, her dress was torn, and she was missing a boot. Beautiful.

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Cutting, Light

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• Why does everyone want to own me?" Pippa mumbles. She's got her head in her hands. "Why do they all want to control my life -- how I look, whom I see, what I do or don't do? Why can't they just let me alone?" "Because you're beautiful," Ann answers, watching the fire lick her palm. "People always think they can own beautiful things.

  Libba Bray

  Beautiful, Thinking, Fire

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.263, Delacorte Press

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• When her muzzle grew more white than brown, the chipmunk forgot that she and the squirrel had had nothing to talk about. She forgot the definition of "jazz" as well and came to think of it as every beautiful thing she had ever failed to appreciate: the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity.

  David Sedaris

  Beautiful, Baby, Rain

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• Thats the beautiful thing about being human: Things change.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Beautiful, Things Change, Being Human

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• What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself.

  Justina Chen

  Beautiful, Sunset, Lakes

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• When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

  Margaret Atwood

  Beautiful, Believe, Past

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Erik: Are you very tired? Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead. Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.

  Gaston Leroux

  Beautiful, Children, Tired

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• It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. How the artist captured the light, the details of my mother's dimples, the joy in my father's eyes, all through gentle strokes from his palette. The artist made me look alive when I felt lonely and grim inside. That's the way this man saw me. I decided then that that's what I wanted to do

  Ellen Schreiber

  Beautiful, Mother, Lonely

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• Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.

  Harper Lee

  Beautiful, Baby, Morning

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• The beautiful thing about driving was that it stole just enough of his attention - car parked on the side, maybe a cop, slow to speed limit, time to pass this sixteen-wheeler, turn signal, check rearview, crane neck to check blind spot and yes, okay, left lane.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Blind Spots, Car

  John Green (2006). “An Abundance of Katherines”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• You are unique, and this is a beautiful, beautiful thing, grasshopper.

  Libba Bray

  Beautiful, Unique, Grasshoppers

  Libba Bray (2003). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.416, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Don't you know that there's another bubble as well An expectations bubble. Bigger houses private planes yachts ...... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the expectations bubble will burst as well as all bubbles do. Come to my gallery and I will sell you beautiful things at a more reasonable price. But the point is that they will have value. Things of real beauty things of the spirit.

  Edward Rutherfurd

  Beautiful, Real, Stupid

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• If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.

  Ellis Peters

  Beautiful, Running, Thinking

  Ellis Peters (2014). “A Rare Benedictine: The Advent Of Brother Cadfael”, p.14, Head of Zeus

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• Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Ugly, Faults

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.11, Prestwick House Inc

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• He cocked his head to the side. "Did he die well?" "He died screaming." Charlotte's bluntness startled Tessa. "What a beautiful thing to hear.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Sides, Bluntness

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.676, Simon and Schuster

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• Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do.

  Alanis Morissette

  Beautiful, Artist, Curiosity

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• Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Height, Failing

  "The Beautiful And Damned".

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• At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold into my body, waking the bones. I hear them deep inside me, whispering oh what is that beautiful thing that just happened?

  Mary Oliver

  Beautiful, Rain, Fall

  Mary Oliver (2013). “New and Selected Poems, Volume One”, p.236, Beacon Press

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• Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.

  William Morris

  Beautiful, Passion, Civilization

  William Morris (2012). “News from Nowhere”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

  Stephen Fry

  Beautiful, Love You, Curiosity

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.47, The Overlook Press

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