Strangeness Of Beauty Quotes

#1. Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.

Jack Vance

#2. If they don't learn about launching rockets at home, then they'll just learn about it on the streets." I glowered at him. "That sounds like something Hitler would say.

Penny Reid

#3. Losing maturity in one's fiction for the sake of marvels and monsters can also mean losing propriety, and that's not always a bad thing.

Hal Duncan

#4. 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very early you're doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you.

Ben Okri

#5. My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Elizabeth Edwards

#6. I think for us - the Weinstein name, the Miramax name - they've both become synonymous with brands. We have a real winning formula when it comes to championing a different kind of movie, and I think the audience trusts us.

Harvey Weinstein

#7. I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American.

Frances Trollope

#8. From solar to electric cars, from geothermal to reconfiguring the grid, the scale of investment needed in green technologies in order to meet whatever agreements on emissions reductions are finally agreed will be immense.

Noreena Hertz

#9. Maybe weakness is a strength of a kind.

Melissa De La Cruz

#10. Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

#11. I think thinking for yourself is such a hard thing to do, because you just want to fit in in high school. So being comfortable with who you are is such a massive thing for a lot of people.

Lexi Ainsworth

#12. For decades, Billboard had to rely on record-store owners and radio stations to report the most-bought and most-played songs. Both parties lied, often because labels nudged or bribed them to plug certain records, or because store owners didn't want to promote albums they no longer had in stock.

Anonymous

#13. I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

Libba Bray

#14. I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

Mark Twain

#15. Throwing off despotism and tyranny is our history and part of our national identity - something in which we can take incredible pride.

Mike Crapo

#16. It's stranger than every strangeness
And the dreams of all the poets
And the thoughts of all the philosophers,
That things are really what they seem to be
And there's nothing to understand.

Alberto Caeiro

#17. Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

Sebastian Smee

#18. Strangeness is the form taken by beauty when beauty has no hope.

Antoine Volodine

#19. The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.

Kate Forsyth

#20. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral, Of Beauty

Scott Westerfeld

#21. there is no beauty without some strangeness.

Edgar Allan Poe

#22. If she were a president, she'd be Baberham Lincoln.

Garth Brooks

#23. Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.

Dougray Scott

#24. There is no exquisite beauty ... without some strangeness in the proportion.

Edgar Allan Poe

#25. Strangeness which is the essence of beauty is the essence of truth, and the essence of the world. I have often felt that; when the ascent of a long hill brought me to the summit of an undiscovered height in London; and I looked down on a new land.

Arthur Machen

#26. Age in itself gives substance - what has lasted becomes a thing worth keeping. An older poem's increasing strangeness of language is part of its beauty, in the same way that the cracks and darkening of an old painting become part of its luminosity in the viewer's mind.

Jane Hirshfield

#27. My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.

David Allee

#28. We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

Richard Le Gallienne

#29. Dark matter is needed to hold galaxies together. Your mind is a Galaxy. More dark than light. But the light makes it worthwhile.

Matt Haig

#30. Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

Harold Bloom

#31. I don't really think I feel pressured to become a teen sensation because that's not really my goal in life. It's not really about being star, being popular or having lots of girls. It's really about continuing to be able to act and have fun, and do what I like to do.

Chris Massoglia

#32. Maimed, mad, and sexually different people were believed to possess supernatural powers by primal cultures' magico-religious thinking. For them, abnormality was the price a person had to pay for her or his extraordinary gift.

Gloria E. Anzaldua

#33. The most expuisite beauty has strangeness in its proportions ... Ligeia

Edgar Allan Poe

#34. It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Walter Hagen

#35. I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

Karl Lagerfeld

#36. Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Charles Baudelaire