beauty

"Translators are like busy match-makers: they sing the praises of some half-veiled beauty, and extol her charms, and arouse an irresistible longing for the original."

"2009 Interview with Grace Slick"

"Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you."

"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."

"The center of the chessboard is a magnet, which pulls to itself all the pieces. Therefore the most beautiful and amazing moves, for me, are those with which a piece, counteracting the gravitational fo…"

"They can create something beautiful, useful, even something worthless. But they create. They don't destroy."

"Virgil is serene and lovely like a marble Apollo in the moonlight; Homer is a beautiful, animated youth in the full sunlight with the wind in his hair."

"adical Islam is heir, above all, to Nazism. The destruction of the World Trade Center was meant not only to wreak terror. Like the smashing of the Bamiyan Buddhas, it was meant to obliterate greatness…"

"Have fun—a smile is the most beautiful thing on a woman."

"We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him."

"Disgrace should be represented upside down, because all her deeds are contrary to God and tend to hell."

"addiction to female beauty and sex;"

"I must stop to lament, that we cannot evince an admiring gratitude towards other excellent things by a like readiness of quotation: that we cannot, for instance, quote a star that we have been watchin…"

"Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful."

"On the way to God you have to pass through beauty, pure beauty. If you do not pass through beauty it is not God that you find. Beauty stands at the gate of the kingdom of heaven. It is of the Creator,…"

"Beauty? What's that?"

"Experience shows us that the air must have darkness beyond it and yet it appears blue. If you produce a small quantity of smoke from dry wood and the rays of the sun fall on this smoke, and if you the…"

"Beauty lies not in the things we see, but in the soul."

"To have beauty is to have only that,"

"There is always something about our feeling for beautiful things which can neither be described nor communicated, which is unshared and unshareable."