Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fergie

I have learned more and more to enjoy my body when I have a few extra pounds on, just being more voluptuous. I say, focus on the body part that you feel most comfortable about.

Helen Keller

Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.

Cat Stevens

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

George Eliot

What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?

George Eliot

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

George Eliot

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

George Eliot

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

George Eliot

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

Gabourey Sidibe

One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body. I got tired of hating myself.

George Herbert

Beauty drawes more then oxen.

George Herbert

Beauty draws more than oxen.

Christina Rossetti

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.

J. B. Priestley

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Olivier Theyskens

Bee is really able to wear the clothes. She has a very good sense of the design and feel of the clothes. She has a neo-classical beauty and is very charismatic. Personality is so important - when you dress somebody for a big party, it is good to feel that the person has an ease and naturalness with what she is wearing.

By doing this, the golf master used the most visual, interesting and breathtaking parcels for his course. Each hole deserves recognition as an exotic beauty of the Caribbean, especially number 17. It will not only be enjoyable to play but also a postcard to send home.

Games we've won this year for the most part we've won with our defense. We've got a lot of players that can run in and out, and the beauty of this group is they're versatile. I can have them play two or three different positions sometimes. They may look at me like I'm crazy, but they go out and do it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

Friedrich Nietzsche

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

Franz Grillparzer

What is the use of aesthetics if they can neither teach how to produce beauty nor how to appreciate it in good taste? It exists because it behooves rational human beings to provide reasons for their actions and assessments. Even if aesthetics are not the mathematics of beauty, they are the proof of the calculation.

Franz Grillparzer

Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.

Jeanette Winterson

Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a witch, a stepmother, a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good. Is that the complete list? Then there is the woman you love. Who's she? That's another story.

Jewel

I have been told for so many years that you can't be smart and sexy. I started to think, "Well, why the heck can't you be both?"

Jennifer Hudson

I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what’s right for me except me. I’m not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.

Jennifer Hudson

No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don’t work out.

Jennifer Hudson

It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.

Georges Braque

I couldn't portray a woman in all her natural loveliness... I haven't the skill. No one has. I must, therefore, create a new sort of beauty...

George Sand

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

Jean-Luc Godard

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.