Beautiful Quotes - Page 13

• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Beauty, Ugly

  'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 17

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• I love going to the beach in the tropics and doing whatever I do - surfing, swimming or being - and the glow when I get a tan that deepens. I walk around with red and gold in my skin and feel like the most beautiful thing on the planet!

  Anika

  Beach, Swimming, Surfing

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• When I grew up, it was a time when women were just supposed to be cute and not have many opinions. My mother and her friends were quite different. They were all the most beautiful women you've ever seen ... and they were very strong women.

  Cher

  Cute, Mother, Strong Women

  "Cher Q&A: On her new tour, 'sloppy' Miley, and leather jackets". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2013.

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• The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful.

  Janusz Korczak

  Men, Legends, Difficult

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• Insensitivity makes arrogance ugly; empathy is what makes humility beautiful.

  Renford Reese

  Humility, Empathy, Arrogance

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• When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beauty, Niece, Creativity

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• Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

  Richard Cecil

  Beauty, Years, Evil

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• My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother.

  George Washington

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother Daughter

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

  Havelock Ellis

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

  The Dance of Life ch. 2 (1923)

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• The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to the threads of which it is woven. I wish to say particularly to the young men who are here that you cannot indulge in any unbecoming behavior without injury to the beauty of the fabric of your lives. Immoral acts of any kind will introduce an ugly thread. Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish. Foul and profane language will rob the pattern of its beauty.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, Indulge In, Agency

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• I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Garden, Sight, Singing

  History of England (1911) "The Glory of the Garden"

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• Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  People, Agitation, Heroic

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.27, Random House

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• There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.

  Horace Bushnell

  Character, Office, Ordinary

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.199

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• Apart from the Office [the daily prayer of the Church] which is a daily joy, I do not have the courage to search through books for beautiful prayers. ... Unable either to say them all or to choose between them, I do as a child would who cannot read - I just say what I want to say to God, quite simply, and he never fails to understand.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Prayer, Children, Book

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• I'll bet right now most of the youngsters and hot club fans who hear the name Storyville hasn't the least idea that it consisted of some of the biggest prostitutes in the world ... Standing in their doorways nightly in their fine and beautiful negligees -- faintly calling to the boys as they passed their cribs.

  Louis Armstrong

  Boys, Names, Ideas

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• In my head I think, There is a beautiful picture here and by God, short of murder, I'm going to get it. So shut up and hold still! But what I say is: You look wonderful. It'll just take a minute. It's marvelous. We're doing something very special.

  John Loengard

  Thinking, Special, Looks

  John Loengard (1987). “Pictures under discussion”, Amphoto Books

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• [Photography] has become more and more subtle, more and more modern, and the result is that it is now incapable of photographing a tenement or a rubbish heap without transfiguring it. Not to mention a river dam or electric cable factory: in front of these, photography can now only say, How beautiful!

  Walter Benjamin

  Photography, Rivers, Dams

  Walter Benjamin (2003). “Understanding Brecht (New Edition)”, p.94, Verso

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• You run into a party and [a] woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw - Ava Gardner - and says, "I like you and why don't we get together?" What are you going to say, "No"? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.

  Artie Shaw

  Running, I Like You, Women

  " Artie Shaw, the Reluctant 'King of Swing'", NPR, March 8, 2002.

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• I think laying out a beautiful picture in a beautiful way is a bloody bore. I think you've got to blow it right across the page and down the side, crop it, cut it in half, combine it with something else... do something with it. You've got to make something out of it.

  Diana Vreeland

  Cutting, Blow, Thinking

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• Given the lack of public skills in reading photographs, given that photographic content is sometimes buried in beauty, contemporary landscape photographers are often condemned to making pretty pictures. Dramatic clouds and sifting light can overwhelm more mundane information. Yet who can resist beautiful landscape pictures of one kind or another? Not I.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Reading, Skills, Clouds

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