The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.

Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.

I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

Who among us has never looked up into the heavens on a starlit night, lost in wonder at the vastness of space and the beauty of the stars?

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.