Zadie Smith On Beauty Quotes

#1. It was never about money for us it was about us against the system. That system that kills the human spirit. We stand for something to those dead souls inching along the freeways in their metal coffins. We show them that the human spirit is still alive

Bhikkhu Bodhi

#2. And I'm not going to get any thinner or any younger, my ass is going to hit the ground, if it hasn't already
and I want to be with somebody who can still see me in here. I'm still in here. And I don't want to be resented or despised for changing ... I'd rather be alone.

Zadie Smith

#3. You might as well go through life the way you want to. If what you want is to be engaged and forceful, to 'lean in,' well, do that.

Christine Quinn

#4. I think you have to be a niche player. You've got to find smaller ideas that are going to benefit in the conditions as they are. You can change the conditions and always try to find ways to make money in the conditions as they exist.

Jim Oberweis

#5. Pulchritude
beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

Zadie Smith

#6. People are timid. They don't take chances. Naturally, they're bound. They are afraid of the light. They are afraid of their own power. In the land of willpower, anything is possible.

Frederick Lenz

#7. I didn't understand yet that the beauty was part of the boredom.

Zadie Smith

#8. From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

Chuck Close

#9. Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

Stephen King

#10. It's useful to be able to recognize whether you're on track or not. To have that belief, but also paranoia about am I tracking against my investment thesis.

Reid Hoffman

#11. The mantra of the makeover junkie, sucking it in, letting it out; unwilling to settle for genetic fate; waiting instead for her transformation ...

Zadie Smith

#12. To some extent this area was foreshadowed by pioneering humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow, who wrote about the self-actualized or fulfilled person, and Carl Rogers, who once noted that he was pessimistic about the world, but optimistic about people.

Tom Butler-Bowdon

#13. This is what a woman is: unadorned, after children and work and age, and experience-these are the marks of living.

Zadie Smith

#14. And it's time people told the truth about beautiful women. They do not shimmer down staircases. They do not descend, as was once supposed, from on high, attached to nothing other than wings.

Zadie Smith