Douglas Kirkland Quotes

I despise women wearing too much makeup. It hides their actual beauty.

I may be married to a plastic surgeon, but I'm 98 percent real.

The hearts of the great can be changed.

I show up knowing exactly who I was and never leave as myself.

Our opportunity now is to decide to change what we want, to seek what we actually came here to experience, rather than what we've been told by our culture that we are supposed to be experiencing.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.

I'm not a big fan of plastic surgery. Because it looks like you had plastic surgery.

You might not have a car or a big gold chain, stay true to yourself and things will change

Our mouths and bodies speak for us in a new language as the trees shake loose a rain of petals that stick to our slickness like skins we will wear forever. And just like that, I am changed.

I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.

Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Even trashy bestsellers show people changing. When a fictional work fails to show change, when it merely indicates that human character is set, stony, unregenerable, then you are out of field of the novel and into that of the fable or the allegory. - from the introduction of the 1986 Norton edition

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Raindrops blossom brilliantly in the rainbow, and change to flowers in the sod, but snow comes in full flower direct from the dark, frozen sky.

For I shall learn from flower and leaf, That color every drop they hold, To change the lifeless wine of grief To living gold.

Nature is beautiful, not because it changes beautifully, but simply because it changes.

...He is sure that the Bailey he is now is closer to the Bailey he is supposed to be than the Bailey he had been before

You make alterations, affecting your pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose.

That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.

We're really hard on ourselves and just need to relax more. A lot of guys really prefer you more natural. That's from experience.

I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up who you think you are, even who you had prided yourself on being. When all those around you say they simply don't recognize you any longer, that's the real compliment.

Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.

Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return to air and earth. We're all like that, constantly changing. It's simply honest to report that you've changed your mind when you have. When you're afraid of what people will think if you speak honestly, that's where you become confused.