Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

Katrina Kaif

For me, physical beauty is never the reason for attraction to anyone.

Vivienne Westwood

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Wayne Dyer

Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul. ...There's always something beautiful to be experienced wherever you are.

Virginia Woolf

loveliness is infernally sad.

Virginia Woolf

Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that

Virginia Woolf

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

William Blake

Exhuberance is Beauty.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Lorrin Lee

If you want to Rich ...own your own Home and your own Business. Be FREE to pursue life in your own way ...with all your passion.

Kerwin Forges

Cliff's been our go-to guy all year. He missed two free throws. Stuff happens. We should have won the game before that.

Ronald Reagan

Being free and prosperous in a world at peace. That's our ultimate goal.

Boris Yeltsin

His contribution was invaluable to the formation of a new image of the Middle East, free of stereotypes of confrontation and enmity.

Nancy Reagan

His legacy is a strong and free America, and for this and for a lifetime of selfless service, a grateful nation thanks him.

Marshall Brown

I never even thought about it. I knew I was going to hit my free throws. I think I'm a good free throw shooter and whenever I get to the line I think I'm going to knock them down.

Teresa Case

I'm the senior, so I thought it was my job to sink those free throws. But we are all pretty good free-throw shooters, so it didn't really matter who was up there.

Henry David Thoreau

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World

Henry David Thoreau

In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only!

Henry David Thoreau

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

Henry David Thoreau

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

Henry David Thoreau

I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright.

Johannes Tauler

In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

Johannes Kepler

Nature uses as little as possible of anything.

Friedrich Schiller

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.