Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ad Reinhardt

I was drafted in '45 and I was a sailor for a year. They didn't know what to do with me so they made a sort of photographer out of me.

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.

Marilyn Miller

Protesting in the face of a grieving family is unacceptable.

Heather Casey

I can't put into words what I felt when I saw the look on her face as she realized something she did with her hands got her something she wanted.

Haven Herrin

If you put a face on a gay or lesbian person, it's harder to discriminate.

Scarlett Johansson

If you're comfortable with yourself, then it's sexy. Maybe people think I look sexy because I feel sexy. I am a very liberated person that way. I'm very comfortable with my sexuality, my body, my face - well, sometimes I'm not comfortable with my face, but it's stuck there and there's nothing I can do about it.

Keith Dixon

If you're involved with a lot of people, you put a human face on leadership.

Scott Mlynek

In the face of rising interest rates and all the rhetoric about slowing housing, the fact that Home Depot's results are accelerating is quite impressive.

Scott Sullivan

In the face of intense pressure inside the company, I turned away from the truth,

Rob Mileski

In our league, we are forced to face one good team after another. (Tonight) is just one more.

Isabelle Dinoire

I now have a face like everyone else.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Alex Haley

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

Paulo Coelho

Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

Thomas a Kempis

Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.

Joseph Conrad

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

John Keats

Call the world if you please "the vale of soul-making." Then you will find out the use of the world.

Kailash Kher

We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.

Owen Feltham

Negligence is the rust of the soul that corrodes through all her best resolves.

Elizabeth Gilbert

It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment.