“When you're down, when you've been kicked down in the street and then kicked a few more times until you're bleeding and your teeth are out, then you only have up to go. You get reborn again, and expectations aren't so great because they've taken you away. It's beautiful to be down there. It's so beautiful!” BeautifulTakenStreetsExpectationsTeethMore TimeBleedingReborn Book:David Lynch: Interviews Source: David Lynch: Interviews
“We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.” PeopleKnowsStoriesBeautifulKnow HowTakenCapable Author:Donald Miller
“The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.” ThinkingShouldDoneBeautifulTakenSpecialSafeLettersValuableOccasionsCommodityRulingChuckObscenitySpecial Occasion Author:Dorothy Parker
“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.” KnowsWantFeelsLongMomentsLightBeautifulEvilGoneTakenAirPlanetsHugeMountainLandscapeSmokingOver ItLight UpSomething Beautiful Author:Eddie Vedder
“For the perception of the beautiful we have the term "taste"--a metaphor taken from that which is passive in the body and transferred to that which is active in the mind.” MindBodyBeautifulTermTakenTastePerceptionMetaphorActivePassive Author:Thomas Reid
“As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken.” BeautifulTakenMissingPerfectionScientistPhotographExtremesClaritySubstanceRaysDistinguishedFranklin Author:John Desmond Bernal