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“The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.”

Beautiful Faces Perfect Beauty Strange Perfection Ugly Ugliness Beautiful Face

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.”

Stills Faces Strange Perfection Witness

Book:Much Ado About Nothing

Source: Much Ado About Nothing

“People don't want to see wrinkles, because if they see wrinkles in actors then they have to face that they have wrinkles, too. They'd rather see perfection up there. And so then you get rocket scientists who are 22 years old.”

People Ifs Want Years Faces Actors Perfection Scientist Rockets Wrinkles

Author:Stephanie Zimbalist

“Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”

Inspirational Mean Faces Desire Vision Practice Perfection Dancing Dance Obstacles Generosity Inviting Choreographers Dance Performance

Author:Martha Graham

“Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of self as perfect and whole, the loss of a major portion of our infantile, limitless, ain't-I-wonderful narcissism which we had to give up in the face of compelling reality. Modified and reshaped into ethical goals and moral standards and a vision of what at our finest we might be, our dream of perfection lives on--our lost narcissism lives on--in our ego ideal.”

Source: Necessary Losses: The Loves Illusions Dependencies and Impossible Ex

“Age imprints more wrinkles a in the mind, than it does in the face, and souls are never, or very rarely seen, that in growing old do not smell sour and musty. Man moves all together, both towards his perfection and decay.”

Men Mind Doe Soul Age Together Faces Moving Growing Perfection Smell Decay Growing Old Wrinkles Sour

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)

“Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.”

Ifs Faces Mistake Perfection Boring Makeup Artist Not Being Perfect

Author:Kevyn Aucoin

“Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or cast of expression in perfection that we have seen and admired in a less degree or in less favorable circumstances a hundred times before.”

Firsts Faces Realizing Imagination Figures Expression Circumstances Degrees Hundred Perfection Sight Meetings Casts Love At First Sight

Book:New writings by Willam Hazlitt

Source: New writings by Willam Hazlitt

“Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the human species may aspire in their advances towards perfection; but it may safely be presumed, that no people, unless the face of nature is changed, will relapse into their original barbarism.”

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”

“When I left you, you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve on your perfection. At night, your face was forever behind my eyes. And now I see that that vision who kept me company in my loneliness was a hag compared to the beauty now before me.”

Years Mind Said Enough Dream Eye Beautiful Faces Night Behinds Company Vision Forever Loneliness Perfection Your Face Buttercup

Author:William Goldman

“He is nothing to look at, and yet I can’t stop looking at him. There is something beautiful in how his face is made, how all the tiny flaws blend together into something more perfect than perfection could ever be.”

Looks Made I Can Together Beautiful Faces Perfect Perfection Tiny Flaws Something Beautiful

Book:As I Wake

Source: As I Wake

“You forgot to cough!” he said. “Sorry.” She coughed. “Your sneakiness is dangerous. Next time that chisel will lodge itself in my head.” “Now, Peder, there’s plenty of stone around here for carving. No need to practice on your own face.” He stroked his chin. “You’re right, my jaw is already chiseled to perfection.” She agreed, but she felt too silly to say so aloud.”

Needs Said Faces Next Felt Practice Dangerous Stones Perfection Sorry Silly Plenty Next Time Chins Lodges Carving Chisels

Author:Shannon Hale

“And what is death, if not a face at peace - its artistic perfection.”

Ifs Faces Perfection Artistic

Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“What do dancers think of Fred Astaire? It's no secret. We hate him. He gives us a complex because he's too perfect. His perfection is an absurdity. It's too hard to face.”

Thinking Giving Hard Faces Hate Perfect Secret Perfection Complexes Dancer Absurdity Hate Him

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.”

“A sweet attractive kind of grace, A full assurance given by looks, Continual comfort in a face, The lineaments of Gospel books; I trow that countenance cannot lie, Where thoughts are legible in the eye. Was never eye, did see that face, Was never ear, did hear that tongue, Was never mind, did mind his grace, That ever thought the travel long- But eyes, and ears, and ev'ry thought, Were with his sweet perfections caught. [trow; believe or think]”

Thinking Mind Believe Looks Kind Long Book Eye Faces Lying Belief Given Grace Sweet Comfort Perfection Ears Caught Tongue Attractive Assurance Countenance

Author:Mathew Roydon