#beauty

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie. ↗

— Allison Janney

#beauty #i #important #like #make

I know it’s going to sound funny, but I know you’ve been hanging around with that Billie Marsh, so maybe it won’t be strange after all. Would you be my best man—or, I don’t know, my best lady? ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#best-man #beauty

I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected. ↗

— Paulo Coelho (파울로 코엘료)

#beauty

Human lives are conmposed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of an individual's life. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#vecchiaia #beauty

We did not learn how to feel or experience our bodies, how to appreciate our own strengths, how to value or respect or understand the packages we came in. Instead, we learned how to look at them, to pair sexuality with desirability, to measure the worth of our bodies by their capacity to elicit admiration from others. ↗

— Caroline Knapp

#body #sexuality #women #beauty

our fatal troika dashes on in her headlong flight perhaps to destruction and in all Russia for long past men have stretched out imploring hands and called a halt to its furious reckless course. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#beauty

Not that the man needed clothes. God meant for that piece of perfection to have nothing masking the luscious, tanned flesh stretched taut over beautiful muscles. ↗

— Rena Marks

#erotica #rena-marks #beauty

Nothing makes a woman beauty than her belief that she is beauty. ↗

— Bashir F. Biodun

#beauty

I told you, you're my black pearl. When i first set eyes on you in the servant's hall I thought you were the most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life. ↗

— Daisy Goodwin

#colored #forever #love #beauty

A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up towards the frosted wedding-cake of the ceiling, and then rippled over the wine-coloured rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#everyday-objects #great-gatsby #great-prose #prose #beauty