beauty

"As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the pr…"

"Telling is a component of many cultures and it’s certainly present in many classics of Latin American literature. Modern American literature doesn’t seem to value telling as much as it once did or as …"

"Perhaps we'll be able to do beautiful things, since I have a stellar, insane desire to assassinate beauty."

"Illustrious Lord, hearing that your Excellency has gone to the court of his Imperial Majesty , I abstain from coming to Mantua, sighing at my bad fortune in not having left Bologna soon enough to meet…"

"He sat cross-legged in the crumpled, body-warmed bedding, now, and looked at her beside him until his eyes ached with keeping his lids up, looking not to miss the beauty of her breathing, the faint fl…"

"Of all the joys of life which may fairly come under the head of recreation there is nothing more great, more refreshing, more beneficial in the widest sense of the word, than a real love of the beauty…"

"Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers, it is about building what is appropriate and about attaining beauty th…"

"The characteristics of our "romantics" are absolutely and directly opposed to the transcendental European type, and no European standard can be applied to them. The characteristics of our romantics ar…"

"Slowness is a beauty"

"The Bald Boy Keloğlan and the Most Beautiful Girl in the World"

"I will show," said Agesilaus, "that it is not the places that grace men, but men the places."

"Ibn Battutah while in Bengal says that a pretty kaniz could be had there for one gold dinar . "I purchased at this price a very beautiful slave girl whose name was Ashura. A friend of mine also bought…"

"We affirm that the world's magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing car whose hood is adorned with great pipes, like serpents of explosive breath – a roaring car t…"

"Oistrakh's playing was not so much marked by brilliance, but by richness, lyricism, roundness of tone; the unbelievable sharp and clear contact between string and bow, his ability to lengthen the bow …"

"Quaternions came from Hamilton after his really good work had been done, and though beautifully ingenious, have been an unmixed evil to those who have touched them in any way."

"Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays. The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms."

"Do not allow yourself to be thrashed by the provoking whip of a beautiful face. How can sense slaves enjoy the world? Its subtle flavours escape them while they grovel in primal mud. All nice discrimi…"

"He lies asleep as it were and it is difficult to believe that he is dead. In life they say he was not beautiful to look at. He had too much of common clay in him and about him was the 'smell of the Ru…"

"..the longer I am here Laren, the more beautiful it becomes for me and now that I feel myself more comfortable, I can judge it better.. .It is touching beautiful here , with a delicacy of lines and lo…"

"The pain passes but the beauty remains."