Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Duke Ellington

A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.

Dorothy L. Sayers

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

Dodie Smith

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Dolly Parton

I'm in the public eye, so I don't care who knows what I get done. If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I get it sucked, tucked, or plucked.

Dolly Parton

I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

Desmond Tutu

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.

Debbie Gibson

I'm kind of a quirky dresser usually. Like today, I'm actually pretty put together, but I dress kind of off sometimes, but that's just part of my personality.

Amber Riley

I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2.

Chuck Palahniuk

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

Chuck Palahniuk

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

Christy Turlington

I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.

Christy Turlington

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

Christopher Marlowe

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Christopher Morley

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Christopher Morley

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Anouk Aimee

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Anne Bradstreet

When I behold the heavens as in their prime, And then the earth (though old) still clad in green, The stones and trees, insensible of time, Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen

Amy Bloom

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

Amy Adams

Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, 'Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well.' And I've had that relationship ever since.

Anthony de Mello

Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.

Anthony de Mello

"Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside."

Anne Perry

some kinds of beauty did not heal, but hollowed the pain even deeper.

Anne Rice

What if I could give you your life back; pluck out the pain; and give you a world of unimaginable beauty that would be for all time.

D. H. Lawrence

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

D. H. Lawrence

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

Clara Schumann

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

Daniel Dennett

If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things.

David Attenborough

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

David Hasselhoff

I'm six foot four, an all-American guy, and handsome and talented as well!

Curt Siodmak

Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.