Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Smedley

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

Agnes Martin

What I say is that we're capable of a transcendent response, and I think it makes us happy. And I do think beauty produces a transcendent response.

Charlie Chaplin

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Charlie Chaplin

Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no beauty like that which was spoiled by an accident; no accomplishments and graces are so to be envied as those that circumstances rudely hindered the development of.

Charles Caleb Colton

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Toba Beta

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I watched Muhammad Ali, how when he would speak, how it was such a thing of beauty. It sounded so wonderful. And I wanted to be like him.

Theodore Bikel

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

Dave Leonard

We want to stay in Cottage Grove. Ninety-nine percent of our customers come from the western side (of U.S. 61). It's not an option to move it to (the eastern) side.

Charlie Sheen

It's definitely safer to be single, especially with this cottage industry that's devoted to extorting celebrities.

C. S. Lewis

You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself

Barry Sternlicht

I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

Les Finkelstein

When we started, we were renting office space in a garage in West Port. There was no room for manufacturing. I sold the products, mainly custom window coverings. In those days, there was a huge network of people sewing from their homes in St. Louis. It was a cottage industry.

Steve James

He has been known to frequently donate them to fundraisers. In the last few years, this one-man cottage industry has raised and donated $65,000 to a scholarship fund to a Methodist seminary in Moscow that trains new ministers.

Scott Cardwell

He finished first at the 25-team invitational in Cottage Grove. He is excited and can't wait. He is pumped.

Martin Short

I always do my life around the school year. Around the middle of June, the kids are out of school and we go up to our cottage in Canada.

Joanna Lumley

Our cottage is high in the hills, not another house in sight, just some sheep, buzzards, running water and meadows of flowers. It's lovely.

Thomas Gray

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.

Thomas Middleton

A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.

Thomas Middleton

Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.

Elizabeth Jennings

For me, poetry is always a search for order.

Ernest Dowson

And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.

Geoffrey Chaucer

He was as fresh as is the month of May.

Leigh Hunt

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

Alice Meynell

Let a man turn to his own childhood - no further - if he will renew his sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.

Laurie Lee

I was reminding them of their lives and I think that was why it was read so much, but this was quite unintentional and unpredictable.