Beautiful Quotes and Sayings
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music — the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. ~ Henry Miller. When divine Art conceives a form or face,/ She bids the craftsman for his first essay/ To shape a simple model in mere clay:/ This is the earliest birth of Art’s embrace./ From the live marble in its own space,/ His mallet brings into the light of day/ A thing so beautiful that who can say/ When time shall conquer that immortal grace? ~ Michelangelo. ‘I think oysters are more beautiful than any religion,’ he resumed....‘They not only forgive our unkindness to them; they justify it, they incite us to go on being perfectly horrid to them. Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There’s nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster. ~ Saki. I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. You, with all your undumb letters, would never write so elementary a phrase as that; perhaps you wouldn’t even feel it. And yet I believe you’ll be sensible of a little gap. But you’d clothe it in so exquisite a phrase that it should lose a little of its reality. Whereas with me it is quite stark: I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is really just a squeal of pain. ~ Vita Sackville-West. Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? ~ Douglas Adams. The most beautiful sight in orbit... is a urine dump at sunset, because as the stuff comes out and as it hits the exit nozzle it instantly flashes into ten million little ice crystals which go out almost in a hemisphere... It’s really a spectacular sight. ~ Russell Schweikart. I was in love with a beautiful blonde once, dear. She drove me to drink. That’s the one thing I’m indebted to her for. ~ W.C. Fields. |
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