Hideous Beauty Quotes

#1. And go to San Francisco! It's one of the twelve most interesting cities in the world. California has immense contrasts - the utmost wealth and the most hideous squalor. But there's beauty and interest everywhere.

Oliver Sacks

#2. Beauty he loved for its own sake; ugliness, which more often than not was a form of inverted beauty, fascinated him. Life offered far too little of either, and far too much appalling mediocrity, which he thought hideous.

Lloyd Biggle Jr.

#3. Deceit is the game of petty spirits, and that is by nature a woman's quality.

Pierre Corneille

#4. I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

Buddy Rich

#5. Was he he handsome?" she asked with a sly smirk.
"Very. He is still, I think."
"The devil, they say, goes about in finery."
"And if you believe Beelzebub is as cunning as he is attractive, then I think we have found him.

Nancy E. Turner

#6. UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting.

Jonathan Maberry

#7. We wake, if ever at all, to mystery.

Annie Dillard

#8. Oh my God, if I know anything, I know I'm gonna die! I never forget that. I know I'll be forgotten in a minute, and that's just fine with me.

Mike Nichols

#9. You aren't what I expected. I wish you were. It'd be so much easier.

Abbi Glines

#10. What is your advice to young writers?"
"Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

Charles Bukowski

#11. And that, Brunetti realized, was beginning to interest him a great deal, for the answer to his death must lie there, as it always did. Santore

Donna Leon

#12. The shape she loved was a triangle. Always black. Mauma put black triangles on about every quilt she sewed.

Sue Monk Kidd

#13. If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.

Criss Jami

#14. Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've discovered most of the things. I'm going tell you right now: Please don't despair.

Nathan Wolfe

#15. A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy.

Fisher Ames

#16. It became a weekend of reading, of trying to see her in the fragments of the poem she'd left for me.

John Green

#17. Morality is not only taught; it is caught.

Neil Kurshan

#18. It also makes the program more difficult to change because prose tends to be more tightly interconnected than code. This style is called literate programming. The

Marijn Haverbeke

#19. Film was something that I didn't see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you work with a crew and a film camera, are the closest to film I've ever been. That is the only schooling I've ever had.

Anton Corbijn

#20. Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties.

Elisabeth Elliot