Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ally Condie

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

P. J. O'Rourke

The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.

The beauty of cinema is it's something that can be made locally and consumed the world over,

Robert Greenblatt

The beauty of cable is you could program for 18-year-old twins and get a hit show on cable.

Gin Wigmore

The beauty of being a musician is writing songs. That's the best part. It's therapeutic and honest and private.

The beauty of a Tarantino film is that the visuals match the rhythm of the words. That's his goal. And that's my goal.

Joshua Bell

The beauty of a Stradivarius is that you can play in Carnegie Hall without any amplification, and it has this - the sound has, inside it, has something that projects, and it has multifaceted sound, something that kind of gets lost when you use amplification anyway.

It's quirky and yet there are very real people in it. The beauty of it is, yes, it's Maine, but it could be any small town in the United States.

Vince Gill

That's the beauty of this mandolin. It's the Holy Grail. Most musicians think it's in the New Testament. And it ought to be.

Jay Johnson

That's the beauty of it. It's still their grease.

That's the beauty of being the No. 1 seed.

That's the beauty of being in the driver's seat. We've got options.

That's the beauty of being a hostess, they can try out the products in their home.

That's the beauty of a team. They have two outstanding players. What makes a team a state champion is when their role players step up.

That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.

I want to know, for example, why beauty exists," she said, "why nature continues to contrive it, and what is the link between the life of a lightning storm with the feelings these things inspire in us? If God does not exist, if these things are not unified into one metaphorical system, then why do they retain for us such symbolic power? Lestat calls it the Savage Garden, but for me that is not enough.

Jennifer Sky

I want to be treated like the girl in American Beauty , minus the old guy drooling over me. I want to be the princess in the rose-petal bath. That's one way to win me over. I would fall deeply in love automatically. And I'd never, ever cheat on him. Promise.

The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day

Oh soul,you worry too much.You have seen your own strength.You have seen your own beauty.You have seen your golden wings.Of anything less,why do you worry?You are in truththe soul, of the soul, of the soul.

Oh it is a beauty since not very many people are catching them and it is hard to get a bite out here, it is nice to get one on the ice today.

Sophia Amoruso

It's the beauty of the Web. You can pretend to be anything you want. But people figure out pretty quick if you don't live up to it.

It's more than just the beauty of the place. It's got the potential to be a very dangerous thing.

Luke Jensen

It's fun to give kids high fives. Dads can tell their kids, 'That's Luke Jensen, he serves with both hands.' My dad used to talk to me about Rod Laver and Pancho Segura. The beauty of sports is that it crosses all generations and genders.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

The beauty of cinema is that it can do some things that novels just can't.

Katrina Kaif

You have to understand, beauty differs from country to country. When I came to India, I found my sense of belonging and appreciation. People thought I was beautiful.

When you see it in summer, it's just beautiful, and then you read the plaques about how 2,000 men died on this spot in 20 minutes. To reconcile how it looks today, the beauty of it, with what actually happened made a big impression on me, and I decided I had to do something one day.

John Berger

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

Kevin Spacey

A British director directed 'American Beauty,' an important film about American life, and it didn't matter. What only mattered was everyone's sensibility.

Neil Young

What's female beauty, but an air divine, thro' which the mind's all gentle graces shine? They, like the sun, irradiate all between; the body charms because the soul is seen.

Nhat Hanh

Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back to smooth away the wrinkles, as the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a cycle of birth and death begins.

Nhat Hanh

Because if the manifestations that happen in the present moment are beautiful and good, their continuation in the future will be also good and beautiful.

Nhat Hanh

Our life is a manifestation, and we can very well make that manifestation beautiful and meaningful and have a good influence.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Beauty is its own excuse.