Something Beautiful Quotes - Page 3

• All the things that are negative in me as a person - the incompetence and despair and weakness and pain - are like a gift from God in a performer. If you don't hide them and if you stop lying to yourself about what you are and are not, there is a ring or a tent or a stage where you can take them and use them to make something beautiful.

  Elizabeth Ashley

  Beautiful, Pain, Lying

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• I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Beautiful, Thinking, Want

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• Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Beautiful, Thinking, Balls

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, p.239, Dial Press

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• I love film. After a yummy meal for the whole family and some truly great friends, we often go out to see something beautiful and unique.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Beautiful, Unique, Yummy

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• Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

  Nicole Krauss

  Beautiful, Eye, Hands

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.182, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody?

  John Zorn

  Beautiful, Running, Philosophy

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• I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.

  Brandon Boyd

  Beautiful, Mean, Thinking

  "MH Grill: Brandon Boyd". Interview with Benjamin Palfreyman, www.menshealth.co.uk. July 7, 2012.

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• There's something beautiful about the fact that Obama was not just elected, but elected decisively across racial, and socio-economic and cultural groups and that we all celebrated in his win.

  Maya Angelou

  Beautiful, Winning, Groups

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• There is something inexpressibly beautiful in the unused day, something beautiful in the fact that it is still untouched, unsoiled; and town and country share alike in this loveliness.

  Margaret E. Barber

  Beautiful, Country, Towns

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• Intelligence and capability are not enough. There must be the joy of doing something beautiful.

  Govindappa Venkataswamy

  Beautiful, Knowledge, Joy

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• We see them [animals] as the Ice Age is ending and we know that actually in the long run, they're not going to make it. And there's something beautiful about that, beautifully sad. The way the characters are woven together in the film adds to the emotion because they need each other. The message is that it doesn't matter what species you are, you can still love each other and that is a fantastic message.

  John Leguizamo

  Beautiful, Running, Character

  "Ice Age 2 - John Leguizamo (Sid) interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I don't have a favorite I like and then I'll go and watch "Days of Heaven" and I go how beautiful is that. So I think, at least my idea, was lets bring something again that's primitive and guttural but then let's also do something beautiful where you're outside and this isn't a typical western setting. It's lush. It's green. It's beautiful.

  Josh Brolin

  Beautiful, Thinking, Ideas

  "Josh Brolin On Set Interview JONAH HEX – Read or Listen Here". Interview with Steve 'Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. May 13, 2010.

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• Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the gifts and talents that are ours. You ask about possible vehicles for change: question, stand, speak, act. Engage in unruly behavior. Disturb the status quo. Take direct action. Commit civil disobedience. Make art. Build community. Dance. Sing. Farm. Cook. Create something beautiful and then give it away. Find your own monkey wrench and use it with the force of love. Sharpen your pencil. Vote.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Beautiful, Art, Direct Action

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, People, Criticism

  "Thoughts on Writing". www.elizabethgilbert.com.

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• I suppose everything I do has sexual undertones, but I don't set out to make everything about sex. My clothes are more about sensuality. What I do is dress and beautify the body. My feeling is, if you have something beautiful, then show it.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Sex, Clothes

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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• Perhaps you have to have a little bit of hope to believe that beauty can be found, to believe that life does come back, that something can surprise you. And maybe hope and wonder are somehow related. Maybe wonder feeds hope and hope feeds wonder. You see something beautiful and it reminds you that it's possible to see something beautiful.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Beautiful, Believe, Doe

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.54, Penguin

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• Let's do something beautiful for God.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful

  Quoted in Malcom Muggeridge, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1971)

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• I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Beautiful, Sadness, Thinking

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• Journalism has not only its social stimulations but its aesthetic virtues. An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried.

  John Updike

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Treasure

  "More Matter" by John Updike, www.nytimes.com. 1999.

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• I have my moods, but I can always see something beautiful.

  Pat Steir

  Beautiful, Mood, I Can

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For some people, a park is the only place in their entire world where they can see something beautiful.

  Bette Midler

  Beautiful, People, World

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• I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Beautiful, Grief, Eye

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• When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world.

  Jenny Hval

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Keys

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• After a snowstorm is the best time to be in the woods, because all the empty beer and soda cans and candy wrappers disappear, and you don't have to try as hard to be in another time. Plus there's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Beautiful, Beer, Snow

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.31, Dial Press

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• I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

  Nick Vujicic

  Beautiful, People, Broken

  Interview with Lucky Severson, www.pbs.org. March 29, 2013.

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