Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linda Ellerbee

People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.

Linda Evangelista

On days when I do not work, I am working on my image.

Leon Battista Alberti

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

Leo Tolstoy

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

Rabindranath Tagore

O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

Theophrastus

Beauty is a mute deception.

Josh Billings

Beauty is a very handy thing to have, especially for a woman who ain't handsome.

Pamela Anderson

It's nice when your boyfriend thinks you're beautiful.

Peter Garrett

I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.

John Cage

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Aristotle

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful.

Henri Matisse

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in beautiful houses, attired in beautiful clothes and, ostensibly, thinking only beautiful thoughts.

John Lyly

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

John Lubbock

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Dick Bennett

It's as realistic for us to win three games, so why not four. Someone has to suffer. I'm just thankful to be in, and who knows what could happen. That's the beauty of tournament time. But, of course it's going to be hard.

George Bernard Shaw

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

Bob Dylan

There's beauty in the silver singing river, There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty, That I remember in my true love's eyes

Dontrelle Willis

It's baseball. That's the beauty of it, playing the games. It's a double-edged sword. Anything can happen. This team has the capability. We just haven't hit yet.

Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.

Tamara Taylor

Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

Bernardo Bertolucci

I like being able to see an innocence in people. I see a lot of beauty in youth. Young people are in progress. Their faces and bodies and minds are constantly changing. It's exciting to capture that on film.

Sarah Hall

The beauty of interdisciplinary conversation is that the mode of expression is essentially different for each practitioner, even if ideas are shared.

David Hockney

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

We're interested, but he wants more than we want to pay, that's the bottom line. That's the beauty of the salary management system. You just stop when you run out of money.

William Shakespeare

Beauty within itself should not be wasted.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Charlie Chaplin

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Chanakya

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Charles Baudelaire

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

Charles Baudelaire

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.