Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Taylor

One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.

James Thurber

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

James Patterson

living life was like putting the beach into a jar. The point wasn’t to fit everything in; it was to attend to the most important things first—the big, beautiful rocks—the most valuable people and experiences—and fit the lesser things in around them. Otherwise, the best things might get left out

James Patterson

Oz thinks I'm beautiful," she whispered to the stars.

James Patterson

Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time. What are we but our stories?

James Patterson

You're my best friend, my first and only love, and the most beautiful girl I've ever seen

James Patterson

Why do things this beautiful make me want to cry?" I asked Michael as I leaned into him. It was an unguarded question, one I'd never have asked of Hugh. "I don't know," said Michael. "Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.

James Patterson

Bad stuff happens. Sometimes it makes no sense at all. Sometimes its unfair. Sometimes, it just plain sucks. Bad stuff happens sometimes. Always remember that, but remember that you have to move on somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky, or the ocean, and you move the hell on.

James Patterson

Every other person in the world would have looked at it and thought, Max would hate this. It was girly. It was beautiful. It wasn't made of titanium and black leather with spikes on it. But it seemed exactly right, in a weird, heart-fluttery kind of way. And I really loved it.

James Montgomery

If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!

James Montgomery

The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.

James Mercer

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

James Maslow

All of my fans are beautiful. Some don't know it, & that sucks 'cause every girl deserves to know they are beautiful.

James McAvoy

I've seen beautiful actresses get spat at or just someone trying to get a rise out of them so they can get an extra hundred bucks for a photo. It's really rough.

James Mangold

One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.

Emily Dickinson

The words the happy say Are paltry melody But those the silent feel Are beautiful-.

Emil Nolde

Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.

Emeril Lagasse

Food that's beautiful to look at seems to taste better than food that isn't.

Emeril Lagasse

Anything made with love, bam! -it's a beautiful meal.

Ellsworth Kelly

I felt that everything is beautiful, but that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.

Ellis Peters

If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be ... or the stillness. To have no more running to do ... to have arrived, and have no more need to run. The appetite changes. Now I think it would be a beautiful thing to be still.

Elliott Smith

Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.

Elliott Smith

I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection is very artful. But there's something I liked about the image of a skater going in this endless twisted circle that doesn't have any real endpoint. So the object is not to stop or arrive anywhere; it's just to make this thing as beautiful as they can.

Ellen Pompeo

Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.

Ellen Page

It's a beautiful book [Into the Forest], so for those who are thinking about reading it, they absolutely should. First and foremost, I just devoured it, as a story. At that time, and still, it just encompassed a lot of things that I was thinking about, and that the world is thinking about, with society's relationship to the environment, our personal relationship to it, and how disconnected we are from it, myself included.

Ellen Page

I don’t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.

Ellen Page

That's one of my favorite songs of all time. It's so beautiful. It's an old song, sung by Nina Simone. This is the Cat Power cover. We pushed hard to get it and were lucky. It's so stunning.

The display this week was no exception. It started off to the north but as the evening progressed, it filled the whole sky. My wife and I find nothing as beautiful as seeing these displays. Any picture or video is of poor comparison to the real thing.

Kenneth Turan

The director is Rob Marshall, who directed 'Chicago.' It looks to be a very beautiful film.

O. Henry

A mill of this size, pumping toxins into the water on this beautiful coastline, will effectively destroy the tourism and fishing industry for hundreds of miles. The waves on this coast are considered by many surfers to be some of the best in the world. If the mill goes in, with the current lack of environmental standards that exists in Chile, the water will certainly become too toxic to swim in or surf in.

Mike Wallace

All of the music is beautiful in its own way, and a lot of it is at completely opposite ends of the spectrum.

Wes Brown

And during the time when I was getting a lot of criticism and the team wasn't doing so well, I think it would have been much harder for me if I was just sat at home on my own. But when you've got a beautiful daughter to take care of, you don't even think about it.

Edward Tufte

The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.