Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Austen

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

Frank Zappa

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

H. R. Giger

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

Hu Shih

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

Katrina Kaif

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

Miuccia Prada

I am always researching new ideas on beauty and femininity and the way it is perceived in contemporary culture.

Wallace Stevens

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Alfred Nobel

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

Thomas Cole

If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry

J. J. Abrams

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.

Barry Lopez

It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

Antoni Tapies

If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.

Anthony Storr

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

Anthony Storr

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

Bill Vaughan

A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

Bill Hicks

You are the imagination of yourself.

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Tom Waits

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

Steve Martin

A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.

Romain Rolland

Let us seek truth everywhere; let us cull it wherever we can find its blossom or its SEED. Having Found the seed, let us scatter it to the winds of heaven. Where ever it may blow, it will germinate. There is no lack in this wide universe of souls that will form the new ground.

Rumi

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

Roy H. Williams

Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity are both accepted as scientific fact even though they're mutually exclusive. Albert Einstein spent the second half of his life searching for a unifying truth that would reconcile the two.

Tim O'Brien

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.