Unadorned Quotes

28 quotes by 27 authors

My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting. — Ben Affleck
I seemed like a baby bird keeping its truly innocent animal lusts hidden under its wing. I was being tempted, not by the desire of… — Yukio Mishima
My mother was the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. There are moments when I remember her beauty, unadorned, unposed, not in some artificial… — Jamie Lee Curtis
The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. — Ammianus Marcellinus
Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in… — Stephen Batchelor
Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty. — Elizabeth Borton de Trevino
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. — St. Jerome
My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I… — Neil Diamond
Steve Forman is a brutally funny writer. His no-nonsense, unadorned style begs comparison to Dashiell Hammett, but Hammett's humor at its darkest never hit home… — Loren D. Estleman
It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective. — Seth Godin
To be free of the discriminating is to manifest miraculous awareness-awareness that is miraculously simple, miraculously unadorned. — Geoffrey Shugen Arnold
Only when we see that sacred, unadorned child of our devotion-the Babe of Bethlehem-will we know why the giving of gifts is so appropriate — Jeffrey R. Holland
Plate glass... has no beauty of its own. Ideally, you ought not to be able to see it at all, but through it you can… — Isaac Asimov
As the spring comes on, and the densening outlines of the elm give daily a new design for a Grecian urn, â€” its hue, first… — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by… — Heraclitus
If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy… — Don DeLillo
I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned. — Frank O'Hara
Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep. — John Milton
The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our… — Dennis Lehane
June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible. — Marie Lu

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