Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The human heart yearns for the beautiful in all ranks of life. The beautiful things that God makes are His gift to all alike. I know there are many of the poor who have fine feeling and a keen sense of the beautiful, which rusts out and dies because they are too hard pressed to procure it any gratification.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

Halle Berry

Beauty is not just physical. It's about what you stand for, how you live your life.

Halle Berry

We've become obsessed with beauty and the fountain of youth and, frankly, I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

Homer

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Ian Stewart

...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible picture... Mathematicians are just beginning to understand these basic building blocks of change and to analyze how they combine. The methodology involved has a very different spirit from traditional modeling with differential equations: it is more like chemistry than calculus, requiring careful counterpoint between analysis and synthesis.

Ian Stewart

Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the queen of mathematics." Queens are regal, but they are also largely decorative, and this nuance was not lost on Gauss.

John Prescott

He also made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government,

Jim Sinclair

For the Canucks to try scab hockey in British Columbia is a long stretch and would do more harm to this game than any lockout ever did. They'll never get the support of the public to do this.

Sukarno

If I am not mistaken, it was a British poet who said that 'no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.'

Rick Wakeman

If he had been British he would have been knighted for sure and been Sir Bob.

John Reid

I can also tell the House that British troops have opened fire in order to prevent unauthorized entry to . . . a camp in Kabul,

E. O. Wilson

I'd say we drove 15,000 to 18,000 miles. I was in Iowa, Quebec and Boston. In one week alone, I went 2,100 miles around British Columbia.

David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville

I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by tax avoidance, and who want to asset-strip the intellectual property of the British company and then dismember it.

John Reid

I can confirm that the two British service personnel detained earlier today by the Iraqi Police Service have now been released and are back with British forces in Multi-National Division (South East),

Trevor Immelman

I came back to the British Masters and started messing around with the belly-putter after being inspired by Vijay (Singh) at New Orleans, holing all those putts down the stretch,

Max Azria

When I entered the market, I was rejected because the elite say that you have to sell things at a certain price point. My position was that the consumer is smarter than that. Who cares if it's $200, not $2,000?

Tony McCoy

I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.