Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angelina Jolie

I usually try to look for something I haven't done before, a side of me that I haven't completely explored. There's a truth in acting, and there is a very real part of me that can understand that or can believe in that or can see the beauty of that or see the ugliness in that and the statement that needs to be made. So it's all kind of me.

Kourtney Kardashian

I am the worst at doing my hair. I have no clue how to do it; I just feel like I need to go to hair beauty school or something because it's really becoming a problem.

Jane Austen

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

Jason Alexander

We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.

Arthur C. Clarke

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

Coco Chanel

The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

George Bernard Shaw

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

William Shakespeare

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Pablo Casals

Beauty is all about us, but how may are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.

Kelly Packard

The shot was intended to go to her. Becky made a beautiful but difficult pass. Ruth caught it, had somebody hanging on her but hit the shot.

Kathy Miles

That this event took place this year and brought such a crowd is so good for the beautiful people of New Orleans.

Ayelet Waldman

The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.

Brian Andreas

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

Jandy Nelson

Life’s a freaking mess… there’s not one truth ever, just a bunch of stories, all going on at once, in our heads, in our hearts, all getting in the way of each other. It’s all a beautiful calamitous mess.

Jane Austen

It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

Anton Chekhov

Oh, I don't object, of course, to cutting wood from necessity, but why destroy the forests? The woods of Russia are trembling under the blows of the axe. Millions of trees have perished. The homes of the wild animals and birds have been desolated; the rivers are shrinking, and many beautiful landscapes are gone forever. And why? Because men are too lazy and stupid to stoop down and pick up their fuel from the ground.

Bella Heathcote

I collect skulls; I think that a beautiful skull is a really good gift for a guy.

Bellamy Young

That is what thrills me, personally. Small acts of kindness; thoughtful, large acts of kindness. I feel like we're in a bit of a precipice, and I think that any beautiful energy on the kindness continuum will just help us fall into a lovelier place.

John Rice

Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve,

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Benito Mussolini

If you acquit me, you will give me great pleasure. If you condemn me you will do me honour!

Charles Kettering

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Jane Austen

But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

Bela Lugosi

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

Aung San Suu Kyi

If you give in to intimidation, you'll go on being intimidated

Anthony Trollope

A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.

Daniel Goleman

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