Etcoff Quotes

#1. More money," Etcoff writes, "is spent on beauty than on education or social services." FEARS

Arianna Huffington

#2. Sometimes, the biggest secrets you can only tell a stranger.

Michelle Hodkin

#3. His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

Laura Hillenbrand

#4. In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

Nancy Etcoff

#5. What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?

Henry James

#6. Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

Nancy Etcoff

#7. It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.

E. Paul Torrance

#8. Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

Ray Dolby

#9. Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.

Nancy Etcoff

#10. Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

Nancy Etcoff

#11. When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive ... abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.

Nancy Etcoff

#12. Love makes the journey we call life worthwhile.

Debasish Mridha

#13. The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

Nancy Etcoff

#14. Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

Nancy Etcoff

#15. The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

Lance Ito

#16. Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.

Nancy Etcoff

#17. The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.

Nancy Etcoff

#18. I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

M. F. Husain