Henry David Thoreau Quotes

It's always good to be around nice-looking people.

I try in roles like Salome to sing earthily, but it comes out as sweet-earthy. You know, it's like when someone has a beautiful face: you can do what you want to it, but it's still beautiful.

I speak three languages. I'm pretty handsome myself.

Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.

Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there. Assemble yourself with wild things, with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam. Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes and it will shine - Calling me. For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair. A man who will Kiss the Flame.

The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O’s roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl’s breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.

It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome.

Love the hair. Love when it’s out of control. It’s like seeing a side of you that needs to come out more often.

He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

Beauty is nature’s way of acting at a distance.

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.

If you look at any institution in history - look at the Roman Empire - anything in history, and what it looks like when it's peaking. Look at Apple, and how can you say it's not peaking? ... The thing is, it may take another year or two before it starts to decline, but it has to - everything does.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Grover didn't say anything for awhile. Then, when I thought he was going to give me some deep philosophical comment to make me feel better, he said, "Can I have your apple?

When you are healthy you look your best and in modeling when you look and feel your best, you get the best results.

More than once my mother would point out: "Harry Belafonte is the best-looking man on the planet."

It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of qualities in the sex. Her beauty is her capital--her worth in the market matrimonial depends upon it. With her the Virtues are less reverenced when unaccompanied by the Graces. The sex understand this very well; and hence they seek mainly to make captive the eye, knowing the mind and heart will follow as a matter of course.

Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.

I rather like a certain clumsiness in a work of art.

It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.

The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When something strikes us as beautiful, it displays more presence and sharpness of shape and vividness of color, doesn't it? It stands out. It shines. It seems almost iridescent compared to the dullness of other objects less attractive.

Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.

She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope.

A girl can dazzle - just naturally!