Ugly Quotes - Page 23

• For the consumer, fashion is fashion. You can buy something beautiful for $20 and you can buy something ugly for $1,000. It comes down to style. As far as the industry as a whole, it is hard to say. I don't like to separate the worlds.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Beautiful, Fashion, Style

  Source: www.sassisamblog.com

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• Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Beautiful, Fear, Real

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• A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Beautiful, Female, Landscape

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• Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

  Theodore Parker

  Mother, Ideas, Fancy

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.142

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• The only people who claim that money is not important are people who have enough money so that they are relieved of the ugly burden of thinking about it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Money, Thinking, People

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• At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were showing us its real face and how ugly it was in order to sensitize us to its horrors. You don't have to be very keen to see that they are now in fact desensitizing us.

  Pauline Kael

  Movie, Real, Order

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• Sex as something beautiful may soon disappear. Once it was a knife so finely honed the edge was invisible until it was touched and then it cut deep. Now it is so blunt that it merely bruises and leaves ugly marks.

  Mary Astor

  Beautiful, Sex, Cutting

  Mary Astor (1971). “A life on film”

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• I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.

  Edith Piaf

  Thinking, Dying, Awful

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• This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller to his own age and sets him free to live in a past that is vital and crude but never ugly. Herat is as old as history and as moving as a great epic poem - if Afghanistan had nothing else it would have been worth coming to experience this.

  Dervla Murphy

  Moving, Epic, Past

  Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.39, The Overlook Press

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• An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Travel, Stupid, Ugly Things

  Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “A Small Place”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those around him; but it requires loftiness of mind, and the heaven-born spirit of virtue, to imagine greatness where it is not, and to deck the sordid objects of nature in the beautiful robes of loveliness and light.

  Jane Porter

  Beautiful, Heart, Mean

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.210

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• Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

  Margery Allingham

  Sex, Clear, Steers

  Flowers for the Judge ch. 4 (1936)

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• Behind every glorious facade there is always hidden something ugly.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Facade, Glorious, Behinds

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• Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

  Alice Childress

  Prejudice, Language, Charming

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• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  Tanya Roberts

  Ugly Duckling, Ducklings, Puberty

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• You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!

  Wendi McLendon-Covey

  Fashion, Thinking, Dresses

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• And it's been proved that soldiers don't go mad
  Unless they lose control of ugly thoughts
  That drive them out to jabber among the trees.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  War, Mad, Tree

  Siegfried Sassoon (2004). “War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• My work on prime gaps lead to lots of media coverage, some good, some bad, some ugly, and some merely ridiculous. For example, a reporter of our university newspaper, who admitted that he is still learning English, wrote that "Prof. Goldston solved one of the most controversial problems in the prime number theory last month with support from his Turkish partner."

  Daniel Goldston

  Science, Media, Numbers

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• It could be so beautiful here if the Americans themselves had not made it so ugly with their big buildings, their millions of cars, and noise.

  Greta Garbo

  Beautiful, Car, Noise

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• People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.

  Emily Eden

  Jealousy, Real, Hard Work

  Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.8

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• Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Drinking, Self, Soul

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• It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

  Matthew Weiner

  Ambition, Ugly Things, People

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• The principal thing is the question of how our culture views age: that old is ugly Just think of Rodin, how he dealt with people of all ages. I have the feeling that I'm alive, I have a body I can make it extremely interesting. That keeps me alive and vital. It's a kind of process of energizing myself by my belief that the classical tradition of art that we've inherited from the Greeks is a load of bullshit.

  John Coplans

  Art, Thinking, Views

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• Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

  Michael Gira

  Beautiful, Swans, Majestic

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• What's important to remember politically about this, is if you’re a state and you don’t set up an Exchange, that means your citizens don’t get their tax credits. But your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you’re essentially saying to your citizens, you’re going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that’s a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these Exchanges, and that they’ll do it. But you know, once again, the politics can get ugly around this.

  Jonathan Gruber

  Country, Mean, Reality

  "Jonathan Gruber: 'It Was Just a Mistake'" by Jonathan Cohn, newrepublic.com. July 25, 2014.

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