Not Pretty Quotes - Page 3

• Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.

  Laura Riding

  Clever, Thinking, Imagination

  "Progress of Stories". Book by Laura Riding. Chapter "Daisy and Venison", 1935.

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• I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.

  Charles Bukowski

  Ocean, Years, Genius

  Charles Bukowski, “I Met A Genius”

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• I'm not ugly but I'm not pretty either. Everything is in-between. I have eyes that aren't green or brown, but a muddle. I'm not thin but I'm not fat either. the only thing you could definitely say about me is that: I'm short

  Lauren Oliver

  Eye, Ugly, Green

  Lauren Oliver, Veronica Roth, Lauren Conrad, Sara Shepard, Kiera Cass (2012). “Must-Read Teen Novel Sampler: For the Teen in All of Us: A Collection of Fabulous Reads”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Shooting, Daylight, Clubs

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• War is not pretty from any angle, and the most vulnerable organ in the body is the brain.

  G. Frank Lawlis

  War, Brain, Body

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• The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.

  Cornelia Funke

  Looks, Likes, Faces

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.196, Scholastic Inc.

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• One set at extreme intensity does the muscle-building job. It must be stressed that the one final, all-out set I do takes me to the very limit of my capabilities. If you feel you can attempt a second set, then you couldn’t have been pulling out all the stops during the first set. It's not pretty, but it works.

  Dorian Yates

  Jobs, Bodybuilding, Stressed

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• The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic.

  Ayn Rand

  Causes, Illusion, Vicious

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.297, Penguin

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• Don't pretend", I say Breathily. "You know I'm not. I'm not ugly, but I am certainly not pretty." "Fine. You're not pretty. So?" He kisses my cheek. "I like how you look. You're deadly smart. You're brave.

  Veronica Roth

  Smart, Kissing, Brave

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• I assure you that even the most beautiful women are not pretty all over. They have merely learned to use clothes deftly enough to give
  others the impression that they are.

  Edith Head

  Beautiful, Clothes, Giving

  Edith Head, Joe Hyams (1967). “HOW TO DRESS FOR SUCCESS”

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• It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Regret, Life Changing

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.38, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Baby, Character, Fighting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque."

  Ishmael Reed

  Thinking, Style, Amber

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.

  Oriah Dreamer

  Want, Source, Knows

  Interview with Robert P. Rosen, robertprosen.org. June 3, 2011.

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• Everyone has a view of what’s pretty and what’s not pretty, and [plastic surgery] just doesn’t look pretty to me.

  Heidi Klum

  Views, Looks, Plastic

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• Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality.

  Huston Smith

  Healing, Government, Association

  "The World of Religion According to Huston Smith". Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. November 1997.

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• I was mid-sentence when the casting director said, "Listen, kid. You should not be an actress. You are not pretty enough. You should go back to wherever you came from and you should go to school. You don't have it." She was very blunt - I honestly think that she thought she was doing me a favor.

  Winona Ryder

  School, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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