This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
— T. C. Boyle
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they've spent time in and around the ocean, and they've personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet's blue heart.
— Sylvia Earle
I despise women wearing too much makeup. It hides their actual beauty.
— Sushant Singh Rajput
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
— Susan Sontag
I know that I am not a great beauty, and I know that I am a certain taste.
— Suranne Jones
It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.
— Story Musgrave
The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.
— Stewart Udall
The beauty of acting is you just get lost in it. You play the character, and you hope that it works.
— Steve Zahn
Beautiful actors are learning what beautiful actresses like Charlize Theron discovered a while ago - that they get taken more seriously when they trash the same beauty that got them taken seriously to begin with.
— Steve Erickson
Women are more difficult to caricature than men - partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature.
— Steve Breen
Is there any nation on earth that has more natural attractions, from the scenic coastal towns of Maine to the volcanic islands of Hawaii and the natural beauty of our majestic national parks?
— Stephen Moore
All things of beauty can speak to us of God, and I'm very happy to listen to and be inspired by people of every religious background.
— Stephen Hough
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have.
— Stephen Fry
My grandma loves beauty pageants, like most of Latin American culture, but it's not for me.
— Stephanie Sigman
I, like many women, buy into patriarchal standards of beauty every day. I very rarely leave the house without make-up. I dye my hair. I wear clothes that I choose carefully for how they make me look to the outside world.
— Stella Young
My beauty icon is the love between my mother and father.
— Stella Maxwell
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
— St. Jerome
Walking in the mountains helps me unwind, but it also reminds me in a painful way that the real beauty in life is nature and animals, and that the human race, in all its arrogance, is intent on destroying it.
— Sylvie Guillem
The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
— Sydney J. Harris
Having done a Dogme film taught me the beauty of simplicity and austerity.
— Susanne Bier
David Gulden captures animals in all their wonder and intrigue, without glorifying or romanticizing them. He knows Kenya's wildlife intimately, and it shows in the depth of his images. He has an artist's eye, which delivers beauty and transport in every picture.
— Susan Minot
I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
I think it's evident that expensive neighborhoods in Seattle are surrounded by natural beauty. That elevates city life. So if we can make cities more attractive in the long run, we can be smarter about issues like development, zoning and economics.
— Stone Gossard
I have never before, in my long and eclectic career, been gifted with such an abundance of natural beauty as I experienced filming 'War Horse' on Dartmoor.
— Steven Spielberg
The beauty of compounding iterative algorithms - evolution, fractals, organic growth, art - derives from their irreducibility.
— Steve Jurvetson
Beautiful women get in Hollywood's door quickest and then are shut out when their beauty no longer measures up to whatever it is that Hollywood or audiences decide is beautiful enough; once they're inside, their choices are limited by the same beauty that won them their entree.
The beauty of theater is that you get to live the character from beginning to end without stopping. The natural momentum of the story propels you through in such a way that feels organic.
— Sterling K. Brown
Even with an improperly ground mirror, the Hubble delivered extraordinary images. When the flaw was corrected, the Hubble delivered images of transcendent beauty and value for many years. So too 'Terra Nova.' Even in its flawed first season, each episode was full of marvelous moments and beautiful images.
— Stephen Lang
Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.
— Stephen Hawking
Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.
— Stephen Collins
I was in a modeling contest when I was 16. People don't think it's different, modeling versus beauty pageants, but it is. As a model, you're still an individual. When you are crowned a Miss, you are representative of a lot.
Beauty really has such a wide field of interpretation. I guess that's why it's forever fascinating.
The key to personal style is understanding your individual beauty enough to know which looks will work for you and which probably won't.
— Stacy London
The experience of being in the Army changed my whole life; I never believed that an organization such as ours could ever go to war, leave alone win it. It was, as Yeats remarked of the Easter Rising, 'A terrible beauty.'
— Spike Milligan
I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter, and I see beauty.
— Sylvia Kristel
Beauty has been democratised. No longer the preserve of movie stars and models but available to all. But while the invitation to beauty is welcomed, it has become not so much an option as an imperative.
— Susie Orbach
After the loss of my sister - my darkest time - I tried to think of the beauty she'd brought to this world and the lives she had touched and the love she had left behind.
— Susanna Kearsley
I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty.
— Susan Estrich
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
— Studs Terkel
Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.
An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to help the beholder find the fittest mate.
— Steven Pinker
I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.
— Steve Gleason
I know I'm not a woman's fantasy man; I don't have to uphold this image of male beauty, so that's kind of a relief in a way.
— Steve Carell
Baseball loyalists cite the game's legendary numbers - 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits - as evidence of the sport's elegance, beauty, and gravitas. What no one mentions is how wretched and painful it is to actually watch a former star gasp and sputter his way toward a legendary number.
— Stephen Rodrick
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
— Stephen King
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
Every Bond girl has a certain charm, and sometimes - almost every time - that charm is more important than beauty. In the films and in life.
I do sometimes painful things to my body in an effort to conform to culturally imposed beauty ideals.
My first beauty moment was when I was probably four years old. My sister and I snuck into my mom's room and got into her makeup. We put on blush and lipstick and eyeshadow. I will always remember that day.
Smart beauty is about looking your best and feeling your best and never overpaying for it.
