What appears in the pictures was the subject's decision…

I was in the White House for a year and a half. Up to that point, all my jobs had been very unglamorous.

— Desiree Rogers

People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

— Zosia Mamet

I am actually the most unglamorous person on the planet. I am the most unfinished, unpolished person ever.

— Yasmin Le Bon

I cannot express how unglamorous it is. There are moments, where you're at an event, and you'll be like, oh, this is quite shiny,…

— Emma Corrin

When you're a kid, you read about this glamorous acting world, but actually it's really unglamorous.

— Jodie Whittaker

Claridge's is elegant but determinedly unglamorous. The only fantasy it has to offer is the illusion that the world is in good working order.

— Holly Brubach

“But even in the unglamorous warp of the peephole, she looked like a million sunny days to me.”

— Devon Monk

Progress can be unglamorous.

— Jardine Libaire

But to be able to kiss someone you love when you're fully and completely in control of yourself and know who you are...it's exquisite.…

— Richelle Mead

“Her features were exquisite perfection, carved by nature with obvious care and never altered by the harshness of life.”

— Lorraine Heath

“The bedroom was larger than our entire cottage. Its walls were pale green, delicately sketched with patterns of gold, and the mouldings were golden…

— Sarah J. Maas

I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that…

— Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of…

— Sheherazade Goldsmith

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

— Theophile Gautier

Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't…

— Steve Goodier