Source: The Republic of Wine (1992), Chapter Four, Section V
“I know of nothing useful in life except what is beautiful or creates beauty.”
Mr. Wharton in Ch. IV
Esther: A Novel (1884)
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“Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful. Except for nothing.”
Miranda July
(1974) American performance artist, musician and writer
"Birthmark" in Paris Review (Spring 2003) http://guccipiggy.objectis.net/prose/birthmark
Context: Now began the part of her life where she was just very beautiful. Except for nothing. Only winners will know what this feels like. Have you ever wanted something very badly and then gotten it. Then you know that winning is many things, but it is never the thing you thought it would be.
“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
William Morris
(1834–1896) author, designer, and craftsman
“Believe nothing of me
except that I felt your beauty
more closely than my own.”
Leonard Cohen
(1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
Source: The Spice Box of Earth
“God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.”
Paul Dirac
(1902–1984) theoretical physicist
As quoted in The Cosmic Code : Quantum Physics As The Language Of Nature (1982) by Heinz R. Pagels, p. 295; also in Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac : Reminiscences about a Great Physicist (1990) edited by Behram N. Kursunoglu and Eugene Paul Wigner, p. xv
Richard Dawkins
(1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?”
During his conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, as quoted in The Telegraph, in . In " Richard Dawkins: I can't be sure God does not exist http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9102740/Richard-Dawkins-I-cant-be-sure-God-does-not-exist.html"
Salma Hayek
(1966) Mexican-American actress and producer
O interview (2003)
Context: Yes, I'm beautiful … I am beautiful and famous — and yet the things I like about myself have nothing to do with that, because I don't use wealth and beauty to define myself. People think I'm more beautiful than I am because they see me on magazine covers — but go to nearly any town, and you'd find prettier women. And though I'm well known now, I might not be famous one day —but I'd still be happy. I do have money, but I could be richer. I just don't want to pay the price some are willing to pay to have more money. I live in a small house. I'm not the glamour girl who wears makeup every day. I live a wonderful life, and I lack for nothing. Maybe that does make it easier for me to say, "Be who you are" — but I always tell people they shouldn't be too impressed with wealth and fame. They shouldn't worship it. I am in this machine, but I haven't completely given my soul to it.