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.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.

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

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

James Russell Lowell

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

James Redfield

Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of. What happens then is our perceptual ability, no matter where we are, expands in that direction.

James Goldsmith

Beauty is a social necessity.

Chris Gomez

It's more weird than I thought it would be, ... But after a few starts you get adjusted.

Sarah Hall

Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.

Sara Rue

One of the few things we can actually control in life is what we put in our bodies. I found that very empowering.

Victor Ponta

Uncertainty is normal in the first few days of a new government.

Tim Howard

There are very few young goalkeepers who play at the top level. Most goalkeepers figure it out as time goes on.

Amy Froess

We were horrible. If we make a few of those baskets, it would have been a different score at halftime.

Kim Nelson

We were able to string a few hits together and we were able to keep pressure on them. It was good to get started in that first inning and keep hitting.

Granth Sahib

This world is false, but only a few understand this.

Andy Reid

We'll see how he does this week, ... If he's not back this week, he'll be back the next week. Within the next few weeks, he should be able to work it out.

Charles Bukowski

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Rod Serling

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

Winston Churchill

You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet.

Will Oldham

We always keep things very, very simple. We can make a respectable living playing a smaller room that somebody else couldn't, because they're spending a lot of money. If we can't get a show up and deliver with what we almost intrinsically have in our brains and our pockets, then I don't really want to do it.

W. E. B. Du Bois

No people can more exactly interpret the inmost meaning of the present situation in Ireland than the American Negro. The scheme is simple. You knock a man down and then have him arrested for assault. You kill a man and then hang the corpse.

W. E. B. Du Bois

We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.

W. C. Fields

So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.

Zadie Smith

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.