When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High,' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven, very different, I decided - and indeed it is. Francine Pascal
Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty. Leslie Jamison
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but also form in which intuitions or ideas or conjectures have taken visible substance. Max Bill
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole. Leon Battista Alberti
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. Dodie Smith
I'm not out here to win a beauty contest. Kirk Gibson
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings. Ella R. Bloor
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in. Buddy Holly
Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love. Billy Ocean
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder. Lew Wallace
Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing and so, it seems, is perfect disease. Peter Latham
The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home! Meagan Good
The cottage garden most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute. Charlotte Smith
You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country. Guglielmo Marconi
It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur. Harold Hamm
Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold. James Randolph Adams
It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty. Serge Haroche