beauty

"Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards. If you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book."

"...the dark brought out the prostitutes, Malay divorcees mostly, quietly moving from light to light, gaudy and graceful, like other of night’s creatures."

"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait."

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore, and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night co…"

"Grace Hopper in Chips, the United States Navy information technology magazine"

"Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive."

"For a chicken the most beautiful is chicken."

"The first thing I noticed about the Executive Dining Room was its beauty... The second thing... was the seating arrangement. In my family, you could always gauge your worth by where you were seated..."

"The new thing, a great banality in white, off-white and poor-white, leaned up against the wall. “Interesting,” we said. “It’s poor,” Snow White said. “Poor, poor.” “Yes,” Paul said,” one of my poorer …"

"Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty."

"Beware of exquisite language. The language should be simple and elegant."

"This extremely interesting girl, after giving me a single glance from her beautiful eyes, stubbornly refused to look at me again. My vanity at once made me think that it was only so that I would be at…"

"He was, she thought, as beautiful as a young god, lying on his side among the grass and flowers"

"When things are exquisitely beautiful and rare, they shouldn't be privately owned."

"Once centenarian teacher who had the body of an adolescent told me he had studied martial arts. "Me, too," I answered. We were in Notre Dame, and he said, "Attack me." I put myself in a combat positio…"

"Beauty is meaningless until it is shared."

"That's one of-- a beautiful thing about having kids, is you reproduce people that you can relate to."

"Beauty should be around the beautiful."

"These journeys have no visible ending in the world of time, but the severed wayfarer—if invisible confirmation descend upon him and the Guardian of the Cause assist him—may cross these seven stages in…"

"Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted."