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.

Baltasar Gracian

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

Coco Chanel

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

Stephen Rodrick

Baseball loyalists cite the game's legendary numbers - 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits - as evidence of the sport's elegance, beauty, and gravitas. What no one mentions is how wretched and painful it is to actually watch a former star gasp and sputter his way toward a legendary number.

Jorja Fox

Beauty is everything. Love is innocent. A future with the perfect man is life.

Brandon Lee

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

C. S. Lewis

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

Jane Addams

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

Jane Austen

I would much rather have been merry than wise.

Baltasar Gracian

Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.

Baltasar Gracian

The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.

Dean Koontz

In this world only the paranoid survive.

Charles Spurgeon

Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk.

Charles Spurgeon

Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!

C. S. Lewis

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Boethius

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.

Charles Spurgeon

The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.

Deepak Chopra

When you make a choice, you change the future.

Author unknown

Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.

John Bigelow

The result showed the wisdom of your orders.

Daniel Quinn

You never actually know how you're going to handle a problem until you actually have it.

Clive James

Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world.