#beau

What would life be like without her writing? Writing filled her life with beauty and mystery, gave it life...and promise. ↗

— Maud Hart Lovelace

#writing #beauty

You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful. ↗

— Cory Lidle

#east #flown #manhattan #never #right

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#goose #indirectly #influenced #mother #stravinsky

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong. ↗

— Adriana Lima

#attitude #be strong #beauty #believe #believe in yourself

History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it preferred to be shocking. ↗

— Sean DeLauder

#history-of-mankind #beauty

There is a beautiful consistency about Buzzard; he is a porcupine among men, with his quills always flared. If he won a new car with a raffle ticket bought in his name by some momentary girlfriend, he would recognize it at once as a trick to con him out of a license fee. He would denounce the girl as a hired slut, beat up the raffle sponsor, and trade off the car for five hundred Seconals and a gold-handled cattle prod. ↗

— Hunter S. Thompson

#beauty

True beauty cannot fail to move the beholder ↗

— Jocelyn Murray

#emotion #nature #soul #beauty

It's not that," said Magnus "There are some people - people the universe seems to have singled out for special destinies. Special favors and special torments. God knows we're all drawn toward what's beautiful and broken; I have been, but some people cannot be fixed. Or if they can be, it's only by love and sacrifice so great that it destroys the giver. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-lost-souls #jace-lightwood #magnus-bane #mortal-instruments #beauty

I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one. ↗

— Penelope Lively

#beautiful #beautiful woman #differently #direct #happen

It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#character #evil #loved #lover #object