It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
I love the idea of a beautiful neighborhood that represents the very best of American values, but also as a fun backdrop to some darker, deliciously sneaky things going on in people's lives.
That's one of the things I like best about folk music is the beautiful melodies - and the harmonies - that exist in it. And of course, some of the stories, the story songs.
Wouldn't if be nice if our government, could make things beautiful because everybody cares!
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
Only one thing that you can see and hear that is beautiful and frightening at the same time, and that is a thunder storm.
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing.
You have to be doing things that matter - responsibility, but also responsibility with epic and beautiful and noble tasks.
We can't remember things from our future; remembering is merely the privilege and the beauty of the past!
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
The fun part of being a girl is that there are little beauty things you can do to make yourself feel special.
I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
Jazz is a very democratic musical form. It comes out of a communal experience. We take our respective instruments and collectively create a thing of beauty.
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.
