I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I’m going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I’m not having any work done. – Rachel Bilson
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. – Polykarp Kusch
Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we – and some of the beauty of this world – will be guaranteed to survive. Everywhere they are at war with the forces threatening us and the planet. – Rebecca Solnit
I approach everyday personal beauty very naturally; I try to make it look like I’m not wearing makeup. – Sabrina Carpenter
We also maintain – again with perfect truth – that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. – Richard Le Gallienne
I’ve developed into quite a swan. I’m one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty. – Rufus Wainwright
I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty. – Octavia Spencer
In terms of being a ‘sneakerhead,’ there was one point where I was obsessively following every sneaker blog. That’s the beauty of Twitter: To get the heads up on what’s coming out. – Questlove
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living. – Rem Koolhaas
I was a super once – an extra – in ‘Die Fledermaus,’ and was seated within three feet of Placido Domingo. I had never heard a voice of that beauty so close up. It felt as if an electric shock were running through me. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg
If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century. – Ruth Bernhard
In a war situation or where violence and injustice are prevalent, poetry is called upon to be something more than a thing of beauty. – Seamus Heaney
The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead – no defile that has no outlet – it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty. – Orison Swett Marden
My daily beauty regimen consists of washing my face before bed and putting on moisturizer. – Rachel Bilson
Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two – beauty and violence – live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic. – Ori Gersht
Every human – especially the most vulnerable, the unborn, the infirm, those ravaged by age and those desperate in despair – should be protected in law, loved, and told repeatedly of their incredible beauty and worth. – Sam Brownback
This idea that being youthful is the only thing that’s beautiful or attractive simply isn’t true. I don’t want to be an ‘ageless beauty.’ I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age. – Sharon Stone
The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined. – Robert Musil
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. – Robert Browning
Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru’ all creation. – Robert Bridges
‘Handsome’ means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered – and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn’t hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business. – Richard Chamberlain
Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It’s exotic to me. I like they way Asians project their feelings. There’s a hardness to the culture, but at the same time there’s a delicateness. – Paz Vega
Beauty, unlike the rest of the gifts handed out at birth, does not require dedication, patience and hard work to pay off. But it’s also the only gift that does not keep on giving. – Paulina Porizkova
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
We’re all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that’s what art is. – Rebecca Makkai
