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Beauties Quotes (page 162)

The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets. Sherman Alexie
[Growing up] is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and... Madeleine L'Engle
Franz Grillparzer quote: "Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful..."
Moons and years pass by and are gone forever, but a beautiful moment shimmers through life a ray of light. Franz Grillparzer
Spalding Gray quote: "All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal..."
All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities. Spalding Gray
One may lack words to express the impact of beauty but no one who has felt it remains untouched. It is renewal, enlargement, intensification. The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens. Bernard De Voto
All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. Cormac McCarthy
The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome? this orphan, this foundling, this outcast. Victor Hugo
Michael Cunningham quote: "There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we..."
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be. Michael Cunningham
I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards. Russell Brand
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power,..."
It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power. Chuck Palahniuk
You can do anything you want. You don't believe me. You think, she's out of her head. Yeah, I'm out of my head- on being me. What are you on? On being them. You don't even know. I bet you were never given a chance to know. ....Listen. You can be anything you want to be. Be careful. It's a spell. It's magic. Listen to the words.... You are anything...everyone, anyone. ...You listen to them, teachers, parents, politicians. They're always saying, if you steal you're a thief, if you sleep aroung... Melvin Burgess
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach... Robert Fulghum
In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is real. Elizabeth Gilbert
Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influence of cholesterol. She's fascinated by cholesterol. Says it's very beautiful: bright yellow. She says Ang is wholly uninterested. He has no idea what she does. I check this out for myself. 'What does Jane do?' I ask. 'Science,' he says vaguely. Emma Thompson
Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance. Theodore Roosevelt

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