Edna Ferber Quotes

Not everybody is Cindy Crawford.

Forget goals. Value the process.

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

I am proportional, and I'm very lucky for that.

A lot of people think bigger is better, but not always.

Dark skin women are so beautiful and I feel like people forget. Real talk.

I was in Italy on vacation, and I saw my reflection in a mirror. I saw how unique my skin was and why people stop me on the street to ask about it. I started falling in love with it.

I love to have contrast.

There’s always going to be someone who is prettier than you, better than you in some way, but everyone has that something that makes them different.

Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent

One way isn't better than the other; they're just different.

To be thankful for what we grasp exceeding our proportion is to add hypocrisy to injustice.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

No matter how bad someone has it, there are others who have it worse. Remembering that makes life a lot easier and allows you to take pleasure in the blessings you have been given.

Never rank, rate, or compare coaches, children, concerts, or championships or congratulations. Just enjoy them all.

How could any of us truly appreciate our lives if we had nothing else to compare them to?

Other people have qualities that may be better than your own. Let them express them.

A pretty woman's worth some pains to see.

Life is one heck of an invention. It is better than the iPhone 4S and Coke Zero combined.

Conflict grows out of ignorance and suspicion. As we learn to know and appreciate those of various cultures, we come to appreciate them.

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

Nature may reach the same result in many ways.