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.

Lynn Johnston

Yes, and when I had Aaron, he left me, and I didn't know how to raise a child. And I wasn't close to my parents, and because I was too proud to go to my parents for help, I mistreated that little baby. I didn't want a baby.

Tom Florczak

We have nothing inked yet, but we're close to settlement.

Jon Haas

We haven't had a close game since the Porter County Conference finals. We wanted to get the kids time but we don't want to risk another injury.

Charles Schumer

The president has not sent us a nominee who has already hewed to the extreme wing of his party, ... that the views of the extreme right wing of his party aren't the views of the American people, or even close to it.

Alan Greenspan

The problem that exists here is that unless we can close the gap between supply and demand by accelerating productivity, which we are doing in part, then the prosperity that everyone is experiencing would be put in great jeopardy,

Duane Peterson

Those five guys are really close together. We're working on swing fundamentals and trying to get them to make more consistent contact with the ball.

Todd Fischer

Those first five holes were pretty nice. Hit it in the fairway, hit it close to the hole and rolled in putts. Pretty simple.

Bo Ryan

Those are three really good testers for a team to show weaknesses and show how close we are with this group.

Gina McCarthy

Water was inches from the top at many dams and there were a lot of close calls, but I hope people in Connecticut knew we were on top of it.

Angie Martinez

The fact that they're taking this service away is disheartening.

Eleanor Smeal

In the '60s, to say this obvious fact that women were treated unequally was to make yourself the object of scorn and ridicule.

Greg Scott

I just think the word's getting out. People look like they're having fun, and they want to be part of it. I know for a fact that we've had some students join on site.

Paul Alepra

It helps us in the fact that they don't look past anybody.

David Healy

I think all of us on Wall Street were misled not only by the company's first quarter guidance, but also by fact back in the fourth quarter, their North American margins were disappointing and terrible. I think there's real strength here, but a lot of good things were concentrated in the first quarter.

Donald Winter

I just do not see a sense of urgency in industry reflective of the fact that we are a nation at war.

Eric Stoltz

I realize I'm a very lucky man. I love what I do, I love films, TV and theatre, and the fact that I'm able to make a living at it staggers me.

Mark Burnett

Clearly, with the fact that we've been so successful in foreign distribution, it makes perfect sense when appropriate to hold on to those rights, ... We've done very well. We've sold international on 'Casino'-that was very successful. We've sold international on 'Rock Star,' 'Contender' and 'Apprentice.' So we have quite a big international distribution operation.

Tom Johnson

Clearly, maintaining storm water prevention programs is a cost. But the fact is, it could be a whole lot worse.