beauty

"I did, however, pass by one young girl, and she was like a goddess who came down from heaven. She was walking alone, in her bathing suit, with her luscious blonde hair blowing in the wind. I couldn’t …"

"Occasionally speaking of Black people generally, in conversation with the still youthful Lorraine Hansberry: "They are beautiful, child."

"Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes."

"The lazy, carbon-black mutt, huddled together and missing all kinds of grace has, just because of that my sympathy. Because outward appearance doesn't matter here it is so beautiful and true but also …"

"Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves."

"What a beautiful step! I shall never be able to do it."

"...the German's defense was stretched out like a spandex at Miami Beach...once again the pure genius of Raúl to anticipate the throw-in...the throw-in is perfection...sublime...and the finish is the p…"

"I was twenty-four, and the religious revival within myself was at its height. Earlier that summer, I had discovered Kierkegaard, and each week I brought back to the apartment one more of the Princeton…"

"I get scared because I regard women as the most beautiful creatures in the world."

"I have been surprised to find how little variety of opinion exists, in different places, regarding what they concurred in terming the beautiful."

"The good is the everlasting, the pinnacle of our life. ... life is striving towards the good, toward God. The good is the most basic idea ... an idea not definable by reason ... yet is the postulate f…"

"The tuxedo is a secret agent. It makes you beautiful without beig about it. It's opposite of a sublime evening gown that everyone remembers even better than they remember you. You know, the kind you c…"

"The highest form of grace is silence."

"see this watch? i got it by Crying. my car? crying. my beautiful wife? Crying. My perfect teeth? Crying. now get the fuck out of my office"

"It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, "I am terribly sorry. I'm tired."

"It is a lovely and terrible wilderness, such as wilderness as Christ and the prophets went out into; harshly and beautifully colored, broken and worn until its bones are exposed, its great sky without…"

"Well, at first I wanted to put blinds on the building . But when I do something I've already done before, I sometimes have a certain feeling of uncertainty. Although I am falling back on something tha…"

"My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."

"I will not say that a witness shall not be asked to what may tend to disparage him: that would prevent an investigation into the character of the witness, which may often be of importance to ascertain…"

"Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted."