Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zoe Kravitz

I don't really have a beauty routine. I always use coconut oil, and I always wear mascara. That's kind of it! I'm pretty simple.

Paul Desmond

The qualities in music I considered most important -- and still do -- were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity,

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Rachel Carson

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts

Richard Bach

Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

Robert Frost

The beauty of enmity is insecurity; the beauty of friendship is in security.

Robert Blair

Beauty! thou pretty plaything! dear deceit, That steals so softly o'er the stripling's heart, And gives it a new pulse unknown before!

Robert Bly

Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.

Thornton Wilder

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Thomas Overbury

Beauty is only skin deep.

Thomas Nashe

Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye.

Thomas Huxley

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas E. Mann

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

Thomas Browne

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.

Timothy Leary

After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.

Rick Yune

Jaws was still a handsome, big guy. He got the girl. He was my favorite villain. I tried to make this guy endearing somewhat because all he wanted to do was unite his country.

Redd Foxx

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

Susan Sontag

The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

Susan Sontag

Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.

Susan Sontag

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

Susan Sontag

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Scott Westerfeld

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Raoul Vaneigem

Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams.

Rajneesh

The experience of bliss will give you an insight into the very phenomenon of beauty. Not only does it make you beautiful, it suddenly transforms the whole world. The whole world becomes beautiful because the world reflects you, it is a mirror.

Robert Herrick

Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!

Robert Henri

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

Robert Henri

When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it.

Suzy Parker

It's easy to be beautiful - just be born that way.

Sophia Loren

Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

Sophia Loren

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Simone Weil

Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.

Simone Weil

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.