#pen

For there to be light, there must be darkness. For there to be joy, there must be sorrow. For there to be beauty, there must be the grotesque. ↗

— Penelope King

#beauty

She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs. ↗

— Ilsa J. Bick

#pendleton #beauty

I'm very happy and excited to be re-joining the Sixers family as a part of their broadcast team. I spent my best and most enthusiastic years of my NBA career with this organization and its fans and I truly feel honored and blessed to have been given this opportunity to return. ↗

— Eric Snow

#best #blessed #broadcast #career #enthusiastic

Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#bottom #detailed #happening #how #i

My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them. ↗

— George Soros

#care #country #doing #empower #foundations

I never really wanted to die. But I followed through anyway. The pain in my heart was excruciating, and death was beautiful. ↗

— Rae Hachton

#death-and-dying #first-lines #gothic-fantasy #gothic-romance #love

Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber as a word was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound but you couldn't fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it especially on a Saturday afternoon in summer. ↗

— Betty Smith

#opening-lines #beauty

Crap. I was hopin’ all things ugly had been raptured, but you’re still muckin’ up the planet.” “We must share the same faith, honey. ’Cause beauty checked out when you showed up. ↗

— Courtney Vail

#ya #beauty

I am kind and beautiful. I have a soul.It’s better to be known for what I am not. Isn’t that how the saying goes? ↗

— Rebecca Berto

#beauty

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.” (VII) ↗

— Aristotle

#perspicuity #beauty