My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in front of me.
Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.
'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.
I felt Joyce was an influence on my fiction, but in a very general way, as a kind of inspiration and a model for the beauty of language.
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!
Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.
The fun part of being a girl is that there are little beauty things you can do to make yourself feel special.
There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
Every modern woman shops everywhere for beauty, but for me it's mostly the airport or the drugstore.
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
Look at the history of literature, and you find the history of beauty on the one hand and the IOUs on the other.
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
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.
