“True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.”
Kakuzo Okakura book The Book of Tea
Source: The Book of Tea
“Giordino… simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl?”
Source: Shock Wave
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Source: Culture series, Use of Weapons (1990), Chapter Six (p. 178).
“Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.”
Toni Morrison book The Bluest Eye
Source: The Bluest Eye
“There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.”
Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American comedian, actress, and television host
Quoted in L.A. Times (10 May 1974), as reported in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), p. 638
Elton John (1947) English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
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Song lyrics, Rock of the Westies (1975)
“Ask any girl what she'd rather be than beautiful, and she'll say more beautiful.”
Martha Raye (1916–1994) American comic actress and singer
Quoted in Susan Horowitz: "Queens of comedy: Lucille Ball, Phyllis Diller, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers" p. 128 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=X77jSHAkKnMC&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=%22Ask+any+girl+what+she'd+rather+be+than+beautiful,+and+she'll+say+more+beautiful.%22&source=bl&ots=AzUsYOZJ2m&sig=QQAYhtyJb5NBPdpOSJdI_ZlKmLc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2U8sT9rgAeaj0QXH-tysCA&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Ask%20any%20girl%20what%20she'd%20rather%20be%20than%20beautiful%2C%20and%20she'll%20say%20more%20beautiful.%22&f=false