Charles Dudley Warner Quotes

Imperfection is the new perfection.

Nature is imperfectly perfect, filled with loose parts and possibilities, with mud and dust, nettles and sky, transcendent hands-on moments and skinned knees.

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity

Imperfection means perfection hid.

I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful.

Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave.

I do think imperfection's underrated.

It's the imperfections that make something beautiful, that's what makes it different and unique from everything else.

For me, beauty is synonymous with uniqueness . . . perfection is mundane, boring, and emotionless. It is by celebrating the differences in others that we can begin to accept our own individuality.

And grace that won who saw to wish her stay.

Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach.

God's grace meets us in messy places because messy places are all that there are.

Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

Out of ugly, make something beautiful.

Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of marble whose nakedness the eye can behold without shame and offence!

I like the flaws best," Sam said. "They make her real.

At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult.

We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us-that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful.

There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.

The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

Grace is everywhere, like lenses that go unnoticed because you are looking through them.