Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

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

Katrina Kaif

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

Malcolm Gladwell

The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty.

James Joyce

Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the world. Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world.

James Russell Lowell

Beauty hath no true glass, except it be in the sweet privacy of loving eyes.

James Goldsmith

Beauty is a social necessity.

Laurence J. Peter

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Laurence Sterne

...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Laurence Sterne

Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

Morris Gleitzman

A little hope goes a long way.

Woody Allen

I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")

Jose Saramago

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time

Kevin Barry

Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.

Khaled Hosseini

Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

James Randi

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.

Louis Leterrier

You always have three movies that you have to reduce into one. You have the screenplay. And then, you do a workshop and you add more scenes. And then, on the day you shoot, there's more action and interaction. It's like a souffle. It has a tendency to just grow and explode, and it's just too long.

Og Mandino

Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.