Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wallace Stevens

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

Bobby Brown

We're so used to seeing beauty outside all around us here. I want everyone to come in and see the beauty inside these artists' souls.

What he looked for was parity and equality and respect, and I think that he did get. Now, the respect, yes, I don't know if we have the parity and the equality because there are still advertisers who don't think of Ebony. There are still advertisers who don't think of Jet. Where we have to go in and sell them and re-sell them constantly, constantly, but I think it's the respect of the white community, that's what he wanted. I want people to realize what he did for African-Americans; he gave us a face. He made people recognize the beauty in us, the intellect in us, and also the pride that we have.

Byron Katie

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

Catherine Deneuve

It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that's not true. There are times when itdepresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman.

Camille Paglia

Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

Camille Paglia

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

Bryan Procter

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

Catherine Zeta-Jones

I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.

Edward G. Robinson

In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.

Edgar Degas

Hitherto the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience. But my women are simple, honest creatures who are concerned with nothing beyond their physical occupations... it is as if you were looking through a keyhole.

Edgar Degas

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Elizabeth Arden

I don't sell cosmetics, I sell hope.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I am waylaid by beauty.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty in all things-no, we cannot hope for that; but some place set apart for it.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Beauty never slumbers; All is in her name; But the rose remembers The dust from which it came.

Benjamin Franklin

Beauty and folly are old companions.

Benjamin Franklin

When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.

Bo Sanchez

Because you and I have the power to impute beauty on anything under the sun. Because you become the labels you give yourself. If you declare you're beautiful - not despite your imperfections, but because of them - then you are.

Charles Lindbergh

Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life?

Aimee Mullins

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

Aime Cesaire

And let me die suddenly, to be born again in the revelation of beauty....And the revelation of beauty is the wisdom of the ancestors.

Bobbi Brown

Beauty isn't about looking perfect. It's about celebrating your individuality.

Bliss Carman

Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.

Beyonce Knowles

I wrote "Bootylicious" because, at the time, I'd gained some weight and the pressure that people put you under, the pressure to be thin, is unbelievable. I was just 18 and you shouldn't be thinking about that.You should be thinking about building up your character and having fun, and the song was just telling everyone to forget what people are saying, you're bootylicious. That's all. It's a celebration of curves and a celebration of women's bodies.

Beyonce Knowles

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles. Other than that, the most valuable tip I've learned is always use a skin moisturiser!

Beyonce Knowles

A woman is most beautiful when she smiles.

We bought a real beauty parlor, with dryers and functioning water, and the whole bit. All the other elements, artistically, bring things into a whole.

True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.