Top 1200 Beautiful Objects Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I learned how to incorporate heirloom furniture, artwork and objects d'art to work with exciting new contemporary pieces.

I guess of all those novels, Don DeLillo's Falling Man is the one I like the best. I thought there were some beautiful things in that, particularly the relationship between the man who finds the briefcase and the woman whose husband owned the briefcase. It's quite a beautiful passage.

I never had the slightest desire to have cosmetic surgery - partly because I don't want to look like an alien and partly because it's nice to age in a way. Also, I think that if your soul is beautiful, then the rest of you stays beautiful.

To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something of her choicest secrets, and to have a more intelligent interest awakened in the beautiful order of her works elsewhere.

Human beings look so different from each other, voices are so different, everything about us is so individual, and that's so exciting and juicy and appealing, and we're attached to these things and they're so fascinating and beautiful - I don't just mean model-beautiful, but all the individual forms that people can take.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.

When the time came for me to work with larger spaces, I conceived them as gardens, not as sites with objects but as relationships to a whole.

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

When someone is suffering, you have to see this in the body and the face. I say all the time that actors use their bodies like objects of war.

I wish to approach truth as closely as is possible, and therefore I abstract everything until I arrive at the fundamental quality of objects.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

My health is wonderful. I work out. I'm working. Playing music. I have a beautiful wife, a nice home, a nice car, I got money in the bank. I got three beautiful dogs that love me. Like I said, I'm blessed. I survived.

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.

You know, women are treated like objects. But they have substance. They are not just an item number to be looked at - they have more to them than that.

You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A beautiful thought for me is cutting the umbilical cord for my child. I can guarantee you that your emotional state will change.

A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.

Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.

It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took it, I would know that the only reason it's beautiful is because of Sam.

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and commanded to be well.

Heaven is the most beautiful thing God has ever made, outside of women, God bless them!-And in fact He even uses you women to symbolise the City and He calls that City His Bride, the New Heaven, the New Jerusalem! How about that? He couldn't think of anything more beautiful to symbolise that City than you, you beautiful girls, so He called it His Bride! Why? Because His Bride's going to live there!

The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

A lot of Washington state is beautiful. You have just tons of mountains, beautiful bodies of water, you have a lot of rolling hills in eastern Washington. I'm biased, obviously, but there's not a lot of places in the world that are like where I grew up.

I love a woman, I love to judge how beautiful she is, how beautiful I can make her.

All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.

A beautiful poem is like a beautiful sky and a beautiful sky is like a beautiful poem!

The experience of bliss will give you an insight into the very phenomenon of beauty. Not only does it make you beautiful, it suddenly transforms the whole world. The whole world becomes beautiful because the world reflects you, it is a mirror.

I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.

What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself.

So much is made about the beginnings of ballet careers, the rosebud, and then once the petals and leaves start falling off, is it beautiful anymore? Some people think it is; some people don't. The expectation is to focus on the very beautiful parts, not the ending.

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn't feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It's a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

Beautiful women get in Hollywood's door quickest and then are shut out when their beauty no longer measures up to whatever it is that Hollywood or audiences decide is beautiful enough; once they're inside, their choices are limited by the same beauty that won them their entree.

Most times, women are seen through the male gaze, so they are often shown as housewives, girlfriends, or objects of desire.

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed, Mr. Mortmain. But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them.

I am not normally a fan of organised tours: few public figures are, feeling themselves objects of constant curiosity.

That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.

What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

All men feel a habitual gratitude, and something of an honorable bigotry, for the objects which have long continued to please them.

The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure.

Don't choose the one who is beautiful to the world. But rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful. -Harry Styles

The beautiful attracts the beautiful.

Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street. The first foreign writers who arrived and saw this could never get past just how incredibly beautiful their feet were.

When she slept, she looked peaceful, beautiful. Not Lena's kind of beautiful, something different. She looked content - like a sunny day, a cold glass of milk, an unopened book before you cracked the binding.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.

Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.

Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit.

If you made a movie of 'Sharp Objects,' chances are that it would be a smaller film, but as a TV show, it can reach a lot of people.

I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.

It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There's so much that's beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There's nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale.

The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.

The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.

You just wanted to be normal. It wasn't even being beautiful. I just wanted to be smooth and thin and have, and you know, have beautiful glossy hair and lovely clothes and be able to walk in heels. And I thought that once I did all of that stuff that my life would begin.

I like Cronenberg's early work; his '80s films had all these weird, amorphous flesh objects in them.

Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.

The government, the state, they're just objects of jokes rather than serious consideration. I can't possibly take them seriously.