Beautiful And Damned Quotes

#1. Her life was the significant pause between two glances in a mirror." ( paraphrased from The Beautiful and Damned")

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. Feeling lonely? Wish you had a special someone to help fill the void? Reconsider your definition of romance, reconnect to your passions and be swept away.

Gina Greenlee

#3. At a certain point, you have to convince the actors that you've done the right thing. The way I work, if I can't convince them, I've got to move on. I can't coerce them or browbeat them.

Harold Ramis

#4. I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#5. She is no longer
the beautiful woman
she was. she sends
photos of herself
sitting upon a rock
by the ocean
alone and damned.
I could have had
her once. I wonder
if she thinks I
could have
saved her?

Charles Bukowski

#6. Everybody has two swings-a beautiful practice swing and the choked-up one with with which they hit the ball. So it wouldn't do either of us a damned bit of good to look at your practice swing.

Ed Furgol

#7. When you do something bad and you know you can do it, only you know you can do it. And do it while it's hot, man.

Scott Raab

#8. I wanted to be able to say I was a Marine.

Loretta Reynolds

#9. The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.

Eugenio Montale

#10. Too beautiful for a drifter like me. You deserve a man who can buy you pretty dresses and take you dancing every week. But I'm damned glad it's me you're with tonight, me who'll be taking you home.

Charlene Raddon

#11. Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

Oliver Goldsmith

#12. Massie's frindship is something that has to be earned. Not because she's beautiful or popular but because she's loyal.

Lisi Harrison

#13. Like a lot of films at the end of 2008, they hit a wall with financing, which is why I moved back onto 'Stone.' In doing so, I had to let go of 'The Beautiful and the Damned,' to at least give them an opportunity to move forward with somebody else.

John Curran

#14. Right, but he also thinks every episode of Friends is life-changing. Josh

Jay Asher

#15. Michael and Gabriel-
"Creatures of an unremembered beginning, born of light and sent to protect this place and live among men of free will. To comfort them in death and guide their souls to a new form." Angels

Jon Steele

#16. Shit was getting geological, yo.

Lev Grossman

#17. I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way.

Emma Watson

#18. If I hurt your feelings we ought to discuss it. I don't like this kiss-and-forget.'
'But I don't want to argue. I think it's wonderful that we can kiss and forget, and when we can't it'll be time to argue.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#19. Finally those you love are simply ... those you love.

Anne Rice

#20. There's only one lesson to be learned form life, anyway," interrupted Gloria, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement.
"What's that?" demanded Maury sharply.
"That there's no lesson to be learned from life.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#21. She had dreams that shamed her in the morning, dreams where Ronan gave her a white powdered cake, yet spoke in Arin's voice. I made this for you, he said. Do you like it?
The powder was so fine that she inhaled its sweetness, but always woke before she could taste.

Marie Rutkoski

#22. And yet Jane still couldn't help feeling sorry for the anticyclonic. That mutant left-handed runt of the liter... the poor damned giant evil beautiful thing...

Bruce Sterling

#23. Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding, the third

Marge Piercy

#24. Pure love was always difficult to witness. Why was that, she wondered? Because it was so rare? So beautiful? SO damned unattainable for most of the poor saps muddling through this life?

Lynda Sandoval