Beautiful Quotes - Page 25

• I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!

  Mackenzie Davis

  Thinking, Body, Too Much

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People who haven't ridden in trains don't know what they're missing. It's not like an airplane. You get to see the countryside, the beautiful country we live in. Unfortunately, our railroads have dwindled in passenger traffic.

  Ken Kelly

  Country, Airplane, People

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• Real life is not as simple as it is on a screen. I think real life is actually a lot more beautiful.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Real, Simple, Thinking

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• I know how to make other women look beautiful: from hair to makeup to wardrobe. So, I feel that I have a gift with imaging, and that's kind of fundamental to the music video process.

  Nia Long

  Makeup, Hair, Video

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• It would certainly would be great to see more films featuring the black family and showing that we are capable of having that unit strong and present and beautiful, because that's so much of who we really are.

  Nia Long

  Strong, Black, Would Be

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The experience of beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say. The artist's relation to the object of beauty, how the art makes that happen, is a whole other subject. Beauty is an event. Beauty is something that happens. There is no such thing as a beautiful object or a beautiful woman.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Art, Eye, Events

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

  Lynne Tillman

  Thinking, Trying, Language

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There's no-one up there in Northern Norway, food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.

  David Hockney

  Eye, Looks, Norway

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. May 21, 2009.

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• If I wrote something just for a musician and not for a soundtrack I would have no inspiration from scenes or from the story. It's like if a painter sees a beautiful scene and he paints it. If he's in his home it's not the same.

  Claudio Simonetti

  Inspiration, Home, Musician

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things.

  Paul Auster

  America, Brooklyn, Ugly

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• A lot of the earliest Instagram celebrities took really beautiful photos. But you're starting to see a change where it's not about beauty; it's about the story that you tell.

  Kevin Systrom

  Stories, Instagram, Starting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was never as focused in math, science, computer science, etcetera, as the people who were best at it. I wanted to create amazing screensavers that did beautiful visualizations of music. It's like, "Oh, I have to learn computer science to do that."

  Kevin Systrom

  Math, People, Etcetera

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I do spend a lot more time away from the U.K., it's important to me that I still feel the beat of the people that have been close to me for a long, long time. It's also important that I have really strong and beautiful relationships which I wish to preserve. That enables me - or challenges me, ultimately - to get a Texas driving license!

  Robert Plant

  Strong, Texas, Long

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• We think we live in a global village. We don't. The world is a big and beautiful and incredibly varied place. It can only be known locally, with your two feet on the ground. We should stick to our own gardens, as Voltaire said.

  Yann Martel

  Garden, Thinking, Two

  Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. October 2, 2002.

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• Another way of saying "put it in the Book" would be that each poem we write pops up in the city of poetry, where anyone can visit it. Just as we visit the poems written before us. Go to Dickinson's house, or Li Po's or whomever we think has something to say to us that might help or be beautiful.

  Gregory Orr

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• After the urine is collected over a couple of days, it's dumped into space, which is beautiful to watch because the urine freezes into a glitter of ice crystals shimmering in the sun.

  Mike Mullane

  Couple, Ice, Space

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• I know that I've been put on this Earth to make people happy, to inspire people, and to uplift people. That's a beautiful thing.

  DJ Khaled

  Uplifting, People, Inspire

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• It's wonderful that nothing you write is ever going to be as beautiful as what's in your head, because that gap is where the art can enter and begin to stretch its limbs.

  Lauren Groff

  Art, Writing, Gaps

  Interview with Jason Skipper, therumpus.net. August 24, 2012.

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• Well, my intention is to make work about being uncomfortable. About being in a world that isn't always the world you want to be part of. I talk a lot about the free fall, the moment in the scene where gravity takes over, and the beautiful awkwardness when gravity wins. Gravity is hilarious. Gravity always wins.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Fall, Winning, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What is kind of beautiful about Katrina is that even though the media and officials are working hard at telling us everyone in New Orleans was a monster, in the immediate aftermath more than 200,000 people invite displaced strangers into their homes through hurricanehousing.org and an uncounted horde go to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast to give, to love, to be in solidarity, and to rebuild.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Home, New Orleans, Media

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's not disappearing in that sense, and it's not disappearing in an artistic sense - trying to make something beautiful that means something. If it's something beautiful that means something just to us, that's enough.

  Elena Tonra

  Mean, Trying, Artistic

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Mythology is a really beautiful vocabulary passed down through centuries that helps us understand the perennial parts of our nature.

  Karen Russell

  Vocabulary, Helping, Century

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a beautiful, expressive English but it is non-standard, "broken" English that happens to be efficient, eloquent, and communicates perfectly well even if it is breaking rules.

  Elliott Colla

  Couple, Broken, Breaking Rules

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You can make a beautiful thing, but there's no problem in it. I like the idea of doing a thing, wrecking a thing, questioning a thing to the point where you have pushed it to the edge, and then recuperating it.

  Amy Sillman

  Problem, Questioning, Beautiful Things

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• Gay pride's beautiful. If somebody needs to be expressing that, then it's a positive thing.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Pride, Gay, Needs

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