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“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.”

Source: The Man on the Ceiling

“How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven.”

Beautiful Night Heaven Break Air Silent Clouds Mist Serene Stains Freshness Specks Silent Night

Book:Poetical works

Source: Poetical works

“While all is new, all is beautiful. That is a well-known song. Yes, and the next day the air changes into another one equally well known.”

Wells Beautiful Song Next Known Beauty Air Next Day Well Known

Book:The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid

Source: The Experiences of a Ladies' Maid

“The air is crowded with birds -- beautiful, tender, intelligent birds -- to whom life is a song.”

Beautiful Life Is Song Air Bird Intelligent Crowded

Book:Studies in animal life

Source: Studies in animal life

“But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.”

Book Beautiful Emotion Air Blessing Picks Curse Tangible Intangible Book Covers

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“It was a day in early spring; and as that sweet, genial time of year and atmosphere calls out tender greenness from the ground,--beautiful flowers, or leaves that look beautiful because so long unseen under the snow and decay,--so the pleasant air and warmth had called out three young people, who sat on a sunny hill-side enjoying the warm day and one another.”

Source: The Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Essays, Letters and Memoirs (Illustrated): The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, Tanglewood Tales, Birthmark, Ghost of Doctor Harris… (Including Biographies and Literary Criticism)

“I'm over smoking. You know, I feel like I've gone on long hikes and gotten to the top of the mountain and I'm looking at something beautiful, some great huge landscape, and there's some of the cleanest air that's on the planet. And then I light up, and say, "Ahh, what a great smoking moment this is!" So it's something evil that's taken over, and I want control over it.”

Knows Want Feels Long Moments Light Beautiful Evil Gone Taken Air Planets Huge Mountain Landscape Smoking Over It Light Up Something Beautiful

Author:Eddie Vedder

“Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.”

Should Mean Doe Soul Beautiful Song Sound Voice Common Quality Air Effects Produce Singing Singers

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“'Everything beautiful occurs when the body / is suspended,' Helena Mesa quotes a performance artist who hangs his own pierced body in the air. Mesa's poems are artfully suspended between lyric and narrative, between humans and animals, between Latin America and the U.S., between desire and the difficulty of its fulfillment. Horse Dance Underwater is an inventive, musical, and powerful debut.”

Humans Body America Beautiful Desire Artist Animal Powerful Air Performances Horse Difficulty Musical Narrative Fulfillment Latin Latin America Suspended Debut Underwater Humans And Animals

Author:Mark Doty

“Ugliness, squalor are breeding grounds for revolution. Beauty is conducive to tranquillity, happiness. Beautifying of homes and places of worship began with the dawn of civilization. Beautifying of workplaces is only in its infancy. Yet, since men normally spend more than half of their waking hours at work, surely it is important that adequate attention be devoted to elevating their working environment, whether office or factory, foundry or machine shop, mine or warehouse. Beautiful surroundings subtly encourage beautiful living. Drab surroundings, bad air, bad light, evoke bad reactions.”

“The most important thing I can teach my kids is that you can't put your value in looks. Presence is based upon magnitude. You can pretend to have an air about you but it is quickly deflated, you cannot deflate presence. Presence walks into a room and surrounds and fills anything that's in that room without trying to demand it, it takes over. It can come from a smile. Like I said, love makes you beautiful. What is beautiful radiates.”

Trying Looks Said I Can Important Kids Beautiful Values Walks Rooms Teach Air Demand Important Things Over It Surround Magnitude

Author:Terrence Howard

“Whenever I watched this movie ["How to Train Your Dragon"], I thought, "That's where I want to be. I want to be up in that sky. I want to be flying through the clouds and be living in that environment." So I think if I had a dragon, I would spend most of my time up in the air all over the place and taking in this beautiful planet.”

Ifs Thinking Want Beautiful Environment Air Sky Planets Train Clouds Flying My Time Dragons Up In The Air

Author:Gerard Butler

“A sunny, happy day is beautiful, but when it's moody, and storm is coming, there's an energy in the air.”

Beautiful Energy Air Storm Sunny Moody Happy Day

Author:Brett Dennen

“O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,--at which my soul aches to think,-- Intoxicated with eternity.”

Thinking Stills Soul Light Beautiful Universe Courses Stars Air Mass Eternity Blue Endless My Soul Streams Wilderness Expansion Ache Eden Unimaginable Intoxicated Multiplying Revelry

Author:Lord Byron

“The most beautiful experiences I've had climbing are when everything is simplified. Free soloing is the simplest thing, until you learn to fly or to walk on air - which I feel is all possible.”

Feels Beautiful Walks Air Climbing Simplest Learn To Fly Beautiful Experiences

Author:Dean Potter

“For a city to be beautiful, it must have a mysterious air!”

Beautiful Cities Air Mysterious

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“I think it is no small attraction in a painter to be able to give a pleasing air to his figures, and whoever is not naturally possessed of this grace may acquire it by study, as opportunity offers in the following manner: be on the watch to take good parts of many beautiful faces of which the beautiful parts are established by general repute rather than by your own judgement, for you may deceive yourself by selecting faces that resemble your own, since it often seems that such similarities please us; ... so therefore choose the beautiful ones as I tell you and fix them in your mind.”

“Not only do I think that he is highly intelligent but also outstandingly educated. ... He is extremely beautiful, fragile and totally unearthly. I always had the feeling that he is not standing on the floor but slightly floating on air. Michael Jackson knows that he appears like that on others and he also knows how to employ it.”

Thinking Knows Feelings Beautiful Know How Air Standing Intelligent Educated Fragile Floating Highly Intelligent

Author:Gottfried Helnwein

“Music was language in our house. It was air.....I feel certain that if I absorbed any lessons at all in the first months and years of my life, they must have been about the work that went into making a beautiful sound.”

Ifs Feels Years Firsts Has Beens Beautiful Certain House Language Sound Air Months Lessons

Author:Renee Fleming

“Beautiful clear day in Beverly Hills. The sweet smell of Botox is in the air.”

Beautiful Clear Air Sweet Smell Hills Botox Beverly Hills Clear Day

Author:Bob Saget

“I recorded with Hank (Jones) a number of times, usually on dates where Milt was unavailable, and I thought he was the perfect pianist. He had a beautiful touch, knew all the best ways around the chord changes, and swung mightily. And he brought an air of cheerful competence to every date, making us all feel that it would be possible to make some very good music that day.”

Way Feels Would Be Beautiful Perfect Numbers Air Very Good Best Way Piano Cheerful Chords Competence Pianist All The Best

Author:Bill Crow

“As any man, I, of course, have certain preferences. Being a Scot by birth, I'm inclined to favor those with a well-scrubbed look and a hint of color in their cheeks-put there by an early walk in the chill air rather than by rouge. The smell of soap on a woman's skin or the hint of shampoo in her hair is perfume enough for me . . . Humor is important. The most beautiful woman in the world is a bore without that.”

“You will find many a creature by earth, air, and water, that is more beautiful than a woman.”

Earth Beautiful Water Air Creatures Air And Water

Book:The Letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu

Source: The Letters of Mrs Elizabeth Montagu

“The music goes into people in a totally different way than words. There's air, there's the sound of words, there's touch, there's music. All of those things have a really distinct way of meeting and entering people's bodies and souls. It's the most beautiful part about humans; that we make music.”

People Way Humans Different Soul Body Beautiful Sound Air Meetings Different Ways Entering

Author:Mirah

“I think Northern California is the most beautiful place on earth. And I adore New Orleans, but there's something about the air in SF, for instance. It changes from moment to moment, like one's thoughts.”

Thinking Moments Earth Beautiful Air Instance California Adore New Orleans Beautiful Places Northern California

Author:Hilton Als

“I think we go wrong when we insist, as some have done since 1945, on using experts who are paid Western salaries, drive beautiful cars and live in air-conditioned houses to teach people in the Third World how to improve their living conditions.”

People Thinking World Done Beautiful House Teach Air Conditions Car Thirds Paid Western Experts Salary Third World Living Conditions

Author:Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan