Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elbert Hubbard

Not only does beauty fade, but it leaves a record upon the face as to what became of it.

Egon Schiele

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

Edward Abbey

There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.

Aristotle

Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

Aristotle

Beauty is a gift of God.

Aristotle

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

The beautiful is that which is desirable in itself.

Aristotle

Beauty is the gift of God

Aristotle

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Ed Rendell

One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

Eliphas Levi

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal.

Eliphas Levi

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

Eleanora Duse

Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

Dominic Monaghan

I guess we're living in a pretty sensitive world and there's nothing you can do about that.

And why spoil the beauty of the backcountry when you haven't fully explored alternatives.

Randeep Hooda

Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.

David Rakoff

I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark.

Bela Karolyi

Genetics is all about showcasing human beauty along with high-quality performance.

We do not need more private piers. People are not going to keep coming here if we keep impacting the natural beauty of this lake.

Andrew Motion

Broodingly suggestive of Donne's intellectual figure as well as his witty sensuality, it is also a picture of great intrinsic beauty and the bewitching evocation of an age. The National Portrait Gallery is its natural home. The picture is cheap at the price, and if we don't buy it someone else will.

Bowdoin College leads the pack for culinary cachet with its students: 'The food makes Bowdoin feel like home,' they say. Even though 'rumor is that the dining budget was cut this year,' for many prospectives considering this small Maine school, 'the campus's beauty and food sealed the deal.'

Delta Burke

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

Anne Hathaway

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

Blake Lively

My mom taught me this really great beauty tip. She used to put oil or mayonnaise on the bottom half of her hair before she would shower.

Julie Burchill

Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

Oscar Wilde

You are young. No hungry generations tread you down.... The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost...

You can't capture the true beauty on film.

We all believe that he's with God. He was a spiritual person. He saw the beauty of life, and I have no doubt in my mind that he knew God in only a way that he could.

Every state has its own type of beauty.

Julianne Moore

Every modern woman shops everywhere for beauty, but for me it's mostly the airport or the drugstore.