I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
“Nothing will teach you more about perceived value than taking something with literally no value and selling it in the auction format.… — Fast Company Copy Share Image
For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that… — David Rittenhouse Copy Share Image
“Like Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, I saw the effortless grace and elegance of the women around me and realized… — Sophie Hudson Copy Share Image
Sana Takeda is a genius. It's really that simple. Her vision and sense of story and beauty is beyond compare. I loved… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
It is that faculty by which we discover and enjoy the beautiful, the picturesque, and the sublime in literature, art, and nature;… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
“Praise be to God I’m not good, And have the natural egotism of flowers And rivers following their bed Preoccupied without knowing… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“One ravishing dark-haired beauty wearing leather pants and strategically applied electrical tape, stared hard at me and, when she saw me looking,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Had the world been different, in my opinion, without mountains and oceans, plains and seas, deserts and forests, and consisted of something… — Karl Ove Knausgård Copy Share Image
I only feel beautiful when it's 3a.m. and I'm thinking of your smile. Wearing a t-shirt; the cool breeze from the open… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I can't get over the exciting beauty of New York - the pencil buildings so high and far that the blueness of… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“I want to marry you, Malda - because I love you - because you are young and strong and beautiful - because… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“Finer feeling, which we now wish to consider, is chiefly of two kinds: the feeling of the *sublime* and that of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“But if God is the flowers and the trees And the hills and the sun and the moonlight, Then I believe in… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
“Nothing is quite beautiful alone: nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Women incorporate the values of the male sexual objectifiers within themselves. Catharine MacKinnon calls this being "thingified" in the head (MacKinnon, 1989).… — Sheila Jeffreys Copy Share Image
“I won't desecrate beauty with cynicism anymore. I won't confuse critical thinking with a critical spirit, and I will practice, painfully, over… — Sarah Bessey Copy Share Image
If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others,… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
[Harriet Tubman] spoke passionately about her parents, her friends, shared stories about her childhood - learning about all these elements and aspects… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
“I imagine some artists like myself love the spotlight. It is a beautiful thing to have your art recognised. for it to… — Malebo Sephodi Copy Share Image
The beauty of the World Cup is that while thirty-two countries get to cheer for their respective teams, the event also affirms… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
I think the beauty of the film industry is that if another person tries to become another person or act like another… — Ryan Guzman Copy Share Image
“A beautiful white silk scarf was around her neck, tucked below the fur collar. Her lips were well painted into a bright… — Paul A. Myers Copy Share Image
“The moon features frequently as a simile for beauty (and indeed Budur’s name means ‘moons’). Beautiful women are conventionally compared to gazelles.… — Malcolm C. Lyons Copy Share Image
Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The morning rose, that untouched stands Armed with her briars, how sweet she smells! But plucked and strained through ruder hands, Her… — Sir Robert Ayton Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in elegance. Ever since I first came to France many years ago to do the Chambre Syndicale course,… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
It isn't enough for a book to be transporting or entertaining; it must also come from a place of knowledge and an… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
“The doom of the Elves is to be immortal, to love the beauty of the world, to bring it to full flower… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
When custom has made familiar the charms that are most attractive, when youthful freshness has died away, and with the brightness of… — Timothy Shay Arthur Copy Share Image
It's true that we come from the electronic scene in the '90s, but maybe just two years before that we were not… — Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Copy Share Image
“Simple things. We want to be able to appreciate a beautiful day. We long for that pulse-pounding joy of looking across a… — Jim Brickman Copy Share Image
Laying out grounds... may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting… it is to assist Nature… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens,… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
“There are those who say that spiritual enlightenment is achieved through the denial of oneself; you must deny yourself many things, go… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“1. "It is what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us" 2. (regarding friends) "cherish the good and pretend… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
I kind of had a hard time growing up because I was such a people pleaser; I was so desperate to be… — Jenna Ortega Copy Share Image