Quotes About Embracing Ugliness

#1. The three-story derelict is home to Smitty, Gale, and Gale's baby - a nuclear family nested on the corner - and Ella is accustomed to seeing them on the front steps, waiting for redemption or a cool breeze from the harbor, neither of which seems particularly likely.

David Simon

#2. Knowledge relaxes me. Football is all about playing faster. You play faster when you know more.

Marshall Faulk

#3. A scoop of pure honey set in a green bowl.

Peter Godfrey-Smith

#4. To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

Joseph Devlin

#5. The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers' rigidity.

Douglas Hofstadter

#6. The spiritual soul is sacred.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. But a warrior is never distracted.

Paulo Coelho

#8. When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.

Sylvia Day

#9. Dissent without action is consent.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.

Peter Ustinov

#11. The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#12. You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves.

Mark Russell

#13. [People] are woefully underestimating this country and what it can achieve.

Boris Johnson