Gorgeously Beautiful Quotes & Sayings

Never having failed, I could not picture what failure meant. — Nellie Bly

Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them? — Chang-rae Lee

The coast of British Columbia was one of the three chief centers of aboriginal America. — Ellsworth Huntington

I'd almost say hope isn't what it used to be. It's very difficult today to be a teacher. I speak to children. And tell them, look, no matter what, you must have hope. You must. When I invoke Camus, who said when there is no hope, you must invent hope ... hope is something that is not what God gives us. It's like peace. It's a gift that one can give to one another. Only another person can push me to despair. And only another person can push me to hope. Its my choice. — Elie Wiesel

The elections are run by the same guys who sell toothpaste. They show you an image of a sports hero, or a sexy model, or a car going up a sheer cliff or something, which has nothing to do with the commodity, but it's intended to delude you into picking this one rather than another one. — Noam Chomsky

Nine out of ten humans killed? And you're not bothered."
A look of mysterious thoughtfulness crossed his face. "A virus can be useful to a species by thinning it out," he said.
A scream cut the air. It sounded nonhuman.
He took his eyes off the water and looked around. "Hear that pheasant? That's what I like about the Bighorn River," he said.
"Do you find viruses beautiful?"
"Oh, yeah," he said softly. "Isn't it true that if you stare into the eyes of a cobra, the fear has another side to it? The fear is lessened as you begin to see the essence of the beauty. Looking at Ebola under an electron microscope is like looking at a gorgeously wrought ice castle. The thing is so cold. So totally pure." He laid a perfect cast on the water, and eddies took the fly down. (92) — Richard Preston

She loves filming and taking photographs. I can imagine her making beautiful films in France or India or somewhere with a gorgeously colourful culture. She somehow reminds me of my favourite place in the world, she and Paris I can romanticize and immortalize in ceaseless poetry for the rest of my life. — Moonshine Noire

But especially he loved to run in the dim twilight of the summer midnights, listening to the subdued and sleepy murmurs of the forest, reading signs and sounds as a man may read a book, and seeking for the mysterious something that called
called, waking or sleeping, at all times, for him to come. — Jack London

They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so - bad. — Chuck Palahniuk

I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while. — Waylon Jennings

She knew she could never love any man the way she loved a blank sheet of paper that only she could fill. — Coco J. Ginger

Police officers, firefighters, EMTs - they are all out there every single day - literally just a phone call away for anyone who needs them. — Doreen Cronin