The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.
That’s the beauty of country music – you have to get out there and earn it and work hard. And when you’re on the road with big name acts, you realize there’s no easy way to the ‘Promised Land’ in this business.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Fashion should be genderless; how people perceive the idea of beauty can vary from one to another.
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.
The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.
I’m from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island.
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life’s mystery and unpredictability, of life’s generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation.
I’m a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn’t matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They’re the same if you reach the beauty.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Form follows beauty.
The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.
To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything.
And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.
At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
My beauty regime is very simple. I just take my make-up off before bed. And oh, I always put moisturiser on. But that’s about it, apart from a bit of soap maybe.
I used to switch up my cologne every two to three months, get a new wave – Dolce, Versace, Burberry. But Black Orchid, that joint stayed. That’s the smell of beauty that stays on you… and girls love Tom Ford.
I am among those who think that science has great beauty.
I consider fitness, diet, and beauty to be essential to a balanced self.
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
