I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves. – Rachel Joyce
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! – Oliver Goldsmith
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail. – Robert Motherwell
Beauty and fashion are not really local anymore. You really have to be a global citizen to know what trends are. Now, it’s pretty much the same designers and the same kind of trends, whether I am in New York, Milan, or Mumbai – it’s the same. – Priyanka Chopra
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see. – Samuel Johnson
Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything – we’ve distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, ‘Oh, I don’t eat gluten. I don’t eat cheese. I don’t eat this. So I eat cardboard.’ – Olivia Wilde
It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction. – Richard Le Gallienne
The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ and no ballet is harder to get right. – Robert Gottlieb
Beauty products always cheer me up and give me hope. If it makes you feel pretty, why not? – Salma Hayek
My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don’t need 200 different beauties. – Raf Simons
I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within. – Rachel Stevens
But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality. – Roger Penrose
I’m a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn’t matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They’re the same if you reach the beauty. – Roberto Benigni
I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world. – Richard P. Feynman
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Surely these women won’t lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that. – Rose Schneiderman
I’ve always been interested in beauty. I studied it when I was 16 and 17, and I know it’s a good idea to invest in something alongside my music. – Rebecca Ferguson
The beauty of cable is you could program for 18-year-old twins and get a hit show on cable. – Robert Greenblatt
Ads featuring real women and real beauty are such a necessary component to offset the potentially dangerous programming out there for little girls. – Rashida Jones
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers. – Roy Ayers
All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation. – Richard Dawkins
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire. – William Congreve
