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.

Frank Dixon

As a matter of fact, it would be a shock if we weren't. As long as I've been here, we've been No. 1 every year for 15 years. Very seldom have we been out of the No. 1 slot.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems.

Brendon Burchard

No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

Deana Carter

No matter what you do for a living all we have is music to get through certain situations.

Lindsey Hunter

At this point, we don't even care. We know what we've got to do, and we know what we need to do -- and that's get the title back. That's our focus, our goal. All the other stuff, hey, people can say what they want to say or not. They'll put us on the prime-time or whatever. It doesn't matter to us. We just want the title back.

Sebastien Loeb

To be honest, it didn't matter if I was first, second or third in this rally -- I just wanted to win the championship,

Chuck Grant

We want to play Orion again. But we can't look past that first game. You have to respect that first opponent, no matter who they are.

Peter Munk

You have to please understand that in today's American terms, people worked hard. The Swiss worked hard. But it was a matter of survival.

Matt Thissen

With her talent and her academics, it was only a matter of time for Kim.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

T. S. Eliot

Not only every great poet, but every genuine, but lesser poet, fulfils once for all some possibility of language, and so leaves one possibility less for his successors.

Stephane Mallarme

Poetry is the language of a state of crisis.

Rumi

The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control.

Pablo Neruda

It was at that age that poetry came in search of me.

Mark Strand

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

Marianne Moore

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.

Henry David Thoreau

A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.

Ishmael Reed

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.