Very Beautiful Quotes - Page 7

• I believe that... my first successes in my out-of-focus pictures were a fluke. That is to say, that when focusing and coming to something which, to my eye, was very beautiful, I stopped there instead of screwing on the lens to the more definite focus which all other photographers insist upon.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Beautiful, Believe, Eye

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• Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Beautiful, Voice, Casting

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• Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.

  Marianne Williamson

  Beautiful, Smart, Humility

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 31, 2013

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• The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Beautiful, Passion, Alone Time

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.165

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• I've been in scenarios as an actor where you have to manufacture an emotion that's not really there, but it wasn't hard with Halle because she's a great person and very beautiful, so it ain't a tough job at the end of the day.

  Benjamin Bratt

  Beautiful, Jobs, The End Of The Day

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• I have a very beautiful life with great friends and I look forward to waking up every day. Every day is a vacation but every day is a workday. I don't want to take vacations because music is my life and if I escape from music, that's the same thing as death. So a vacation is death to me. Sitting on the beach for a week is my idea of hell. That would kill me.

  John Zorn

  Beautiful, Beach, Vacation

  "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 3, 2013.

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• To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work hanging in fine museums or the praise of critics . . . To be an artist it is necessary to live with our eyes wide open, to breathe in the colors of mountain and sky, to know the sound of leaves rustling, the smell of snow, the texture of bark . . . To be an artist is to notice every beautiful and tragic thing, to cry freely, to collect experience and shape it into forms that others can share.

  Jan Phillips

  Beautiful, Eye, Artist

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• A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color

  William Bolitho

  Beautiful, Memories, Cutting

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• You remember when you were maybe five years old and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day - and it was a very, very beautiful day.
  You looked at flowers and they were very beautiful flowers.
  Twenty-five years later, you get up in the morning,
  you take a look at the flowers - they are wilted.
  The day isn't a happy day.
  Well, what's changed?
  You know they are the same flowers, it's the same world.
  Something must have changed.
  Well, probably it was you.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Beautiful, Morning, Flower

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.8, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue.

  Thomas Gray

  Beautiful, Education, Squares

  Thomas Gray, William Mason (1820). “The poems and letters of Thomas Gray, with memoirs of his life and writings by W. Mason”, p.198

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• Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and a great deal of pleasure there. There are friends, some of whom are sick and needful of you, as you will be of them someday. The world itself is very beautiful. It's a place where you have a lot to do. But you have to do it knowing that sometimes you will be afraid of this new country.

  Grace Paley

  Beautiful, Country, Knowing

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• It has been noticed that people who are not parents often have a peculiar fondness for children. This is sometimes attributed to a very beautiful nostalgia for a gift denied to them - dream-children, flowers that have only bloomed in imagination - but we think it is rather because they have not the faintest idea how dreadful children are.

  Angela Thirkell

  Beautiful, Dream, Children

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• Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason that it has a more interesting personality. It has wonderfully adapted itself to its surroundings! It is the best illustration of the theory of evolution in plant life.

  Charles Proteus Steinmetz

  Beautiful, Simple, Thinking

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• ...after my first feeling of revulsion had passed, I spent three of the most entertaining and instructive weeks of my life studying the fascinating molds which appeared one by one on the slowly disintegrating mass of horse-dung. Microscopic molds are both very beautiful and absorbingly interesting. The rapid growth of their spores, the way they live on each other, the manner in which the different forms come and go, is so amazing and varied that I believe a man could spend his life and not exhaust the forms or problems contained in one plate of manure.

  David Fairchild

  Beautiful, Horse, Believe

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• The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights movement understood very clearly, and stated very beautifully, that it was a question of humanism, not a sectarian movement at all.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Kings, Rights, Drs

  Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.49, Melville House

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• Anything really well-made has the effect of making you want to do what you do-better. Abrams has always made very beautiful books. It's exciting to see this same excellence applied to the presentation of comics. Abrams ComicArts shows comics are stepping out of vaudeville and into Carnegie Hall-but the Marx Brothers will always be welcome!

  Jon J Muth

  Beautiful, Brother, Book

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• The truth is that Oxford is simply a very beautiful city in which it is convenient to segregate a certain number of the young of the nation while they are growing up.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Beautiful, Truth, Growing Up

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?

  Ray Bradbury

  Beautiful, Book, Musical

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• It feels great and it's very beautiful when you can bring someone of your own nationality into a story, where even the historic element of it is important. I loved that I could use my own accent for the character.

  Penelope Cruz

  Beautiful, Character, Important

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• I've enjoyed, to a certain extent, any country I've been in, of course like Serbia and Croatia can be very restrictive and oppressive, and frustrating, but they're still very beautiful.

  Henry Rollins

  Beautiful, Country, Croatia

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• tend to be better at describing feelings and ideas, and worse at painting a picture of any physical thing. I have terrible spatial reasoning skills so even if I were describing my girlfriend, whom I see every day, it sound like I was talking about a child's drawing of her. "Very beautiful. Glasses. Brown hair. Super smart brain. Bigger than our dog. Smaller than me".

  Josh Gondelman

  Beautiful, Dog, Girlfriend

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• In Iceland, you can see the contours of the mountains wherever you go, and the swell of the hills, and always beyond that the horizon. And theres this strange thing: youre never sort of hidden; you always feel exposed in that landscape. But it makes it very beautiful as well.

  Hannah Kent

  Beautiful, Iceland, Mountain

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• The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Real, Heart

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1984). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.247, U of Nebraska Press

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• Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Beautiful, Understanding, Ugly

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• Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Anger, Mirrors

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2001). “Anger”, p.28, Penguin

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