Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Evermore in the world is this marvelous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats.

Shane West

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

Langston Hughes

I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!

Langston Hughes

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

John Keats

I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.

John Keats

Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not

John Keats

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,-that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

John Keats

Beauty is truth, truth beauty

Rabindranath Tagore

O Beauty, find thyself in love, not in the flattery of thy mirror.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

Theophrastus

Beauty is a mute deception.

Pamela Anderson

It's nice when your boyfriend thinks you're beautiful.

Peter Garrett

I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.

John Cage

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

Aristotle

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful.

Henri Matisse

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in beautiful houses, attired in beautiful clothes and, ostensibly, thinking only beautiful thoughts.

John Lyly

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

John Lubbock

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

George Bernard Shaw

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

We're interested, but he wants more than we want to pay, that's the bottom line. That's the beauty of the salary management system. You just stop when you run out of money.

William Shakespeare

Beauty within itself should not be wasted.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

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.

Bryan Procter

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

Our Victoria's Secret retail stores sell lingerie and beauty products only.

Samuel Butler

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Alexander Smith

Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man "who was uglier than he had any business to be;" and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work.

Henrik Fisker

Design - pure beauty - will be number one at Fisker Coachbuild. We want to bring beautiful, desirable cars to the market, limit the production of each model, and do so with the highest quality.