Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
Quotations
Beauty
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
