Quote: Sunset

"The sunset had smitten into scarlet gold... The sky above was like a faded rose."

Oscar Wilde

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Note to Self: Time is Precious!

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Happy Thanksgiving!

 "Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs." 

~ Charlotte Bronte (Jane Eyre)

 

Quote: Ugly meanings

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming."

Oscar Wilde

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Quotes: Moon

"Look at that honey-colored moon that hangs in the dusky air."

Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

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Quotes: The education of beautiful women

"The education of all beautiful women is the knowledge of men."

This Side of Paradise by Scott Fitzgerald

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Quote: Passion has its dreams

"Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe, and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of color in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music ... it is on things like these that our lives depend."

Oscar Wilde

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Quote: Just a little girl

"You know I'm old in some ways - in others - well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness - and I dread responsibility"

~ Rosalind (This Side of Paradise by Scott Fitzgerald)

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Quote: Master-gardener

"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life." 

~ James Allen 

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Quote: Good at heart

"Because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." 

~ Anne Frank

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Quote: A purpose of human life

"...a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved"

~ Kurt Vonnegut

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Quote: One of those girls

"She's one of those girls who never make the slightest effort to have men fall in love with them."

This Side of Paradise by Scott Fitzgerald

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Quote: Holding on and Letting go

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

~ Henry Ellis 

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Remembering Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen and his contribution to the world of fashion are being rightfully commemorated with the Savage Beauty exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Exquisite pieces from the late designer's work will be displayed until the end of July. The curator of the exhibition, Andrew Bolton (with the support of Harold Koda), did a wonderful job displaying each piece beautifully, while capturing the overall feel of Alexander McQueen's work, telling the story behind each collection. Andrew Bolton explains that a main focus of the exhibition has been to capture the "themes and ideas that McQueen revisited throughout his career: polarized opposites, whether it’s to do with life or death, lightness or darkness, predator/prey, man/machine."

Click below to see many more photos from the exhibition.

Timeless Beauty: Brigitte Bardot

"Do you have to have a reason for loving?"

~ Brigitte Bardot

 

"Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it."

~ Brigitte Bardot

"It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen."

~ Brigitte Bardot

"I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian."

~ Brigitte Bardot

 

 

"If this fame, which people call my lucky break, were to stop tomorrow, I shouldn't care."

~ Brigitte Bardot

 

"A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you."

~ Brigitte Bardot

 

"If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined."

~ Brigitte Bardot

"Only idiots refuse to change their minds."

~ Brigitte Bardot

"People are forever finding something wrong with you."

~ Brigitte Bardot

 

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Timeless Beauty: Rita Hayworth

 "All I wanted was just what everybody else wants, you know, to be loved."

~ Rita Hayworth

 

"We are all tied to our destiny and there is no way we can liberate ourselves."

~ Rita Hayworth

 

"I haven`t had everything from life. I've had too much."

~ Rita Hayworth

 

"Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today's starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses."

~ Rita Hayworth

 

(Reporter) "What do you think when you look at yourself in the mirror after waking up in the morning?"
(Rita Hayworth) "Darling, I don`t wake up till the afternoon."

"(on why she divorced Orson Welles) I can`t take his genius any more."

~ Rita Hayworth

 

 

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Timeless Beauty: Vivien Leigh

"I'm not a film star, I am an actress. Being a film star is such a false life, lived for fake values and for publicity."

~ Vivien Leigh

"I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms."

~ Vivien Leigh

"Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh."

~ Vivien Leigh

"I know I am right for Scarlett. I can convince Mr. Selznick."

~ Vivien Leigh

 

"I'm not young. What's wrong with that?"

~ Vivien Leigh

 

 

"When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people."

~ Vivien Leigh

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