Beautifully Quotes
364 Beautifully quotes by 327 unique authors
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You owe it to yourself to live beautifully. And I am.
— Jill Scott
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When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.
— Jerry Seinfeld
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To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and…
— Will Self
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I think Bridge Over Troubled Water was a very good song. Artie sang it beautifully. The Boxer was a really nice record. But I don't…
— Paul Simon
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If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully…
— Bruce Springsteen
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Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.
— Gloria Swanson
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There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the…
— Mother Teresa
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'The Dark Knight,' for me, has the same problem that every other 'Batman' movie has. It's not about Batman. I think Heath Ledger is just…
— Joss Whedon
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Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism. A compulsive…
— Martin Amis
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I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence…
— Rumi
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The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces…
— Frank Herbert
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...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good and…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
— Nicholson Baker
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[Man] is the only animal who lives outside of himself, whose drive is in external things—property, houses, money, concepts of power. He lives in his…
— John Steinbeck
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I know some very great writers, writers you love who write beautifully and have made a great deal of money, and not one of them…
— Anne Lamott
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Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
— Zig Ziglar
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What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the…
— Henry Miller
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It would take centuries and he must grow and grow and grow, but he was in no hurry--he grokked that Eternity and the ever-beautifully-changing Now…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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So that plan worked out well.' Skulduggery, your entire plan consisted of, and I quote, "Let's get up close and then see what happens."' All…
— Derek Landy
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Everyone carries an atmosphere about him. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot…
— J.R. Miller
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I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Francie looked at her legs. They were long, slender, and exquisitely molded. She wore the sheerest of flawless silk stockings, and expensively made high-heeled pumps…
— Betty Smith
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# "I saw the most beautiful cat today. It was sitting by the side of the road, its two front feet neatly and graciously together.…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Who Wrote These Beautifully Quotes
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