Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bonnie Raitt

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.

Loretta Young

There are no ugly ducklings.

Hans Christian Andersen

I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the Ugly Duckling!

Eva Green

In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.

Nana Mouskouri

When I was very young I was the ugly duckling. I had a lot of complexes. My sister was wonderful and I was nothing.

Nicollette Sheridan

I grew up feeling like the ugly duckling, and things have not changed that much.

Tanya Roberts

I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

Ben Jonson

She is Venus when she smiles; / But she's Juno when she walks, / And Minerva when she talks.

Edgar Allan Poe

By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Alas, alas, that ever love was sin! I ever followed natural inclination Under the power of my constellation And was unable to deny, in truth, My chamber of Venus to a likely youth.

Ovid

Venus favors the bold.

Mary Pickford

[Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.

Ovid

Venus is kind to creatures as young as we;We know not what we do, and while we're youngWe have the right to live and love like gods.

Serena Williams

A lifetime with Venus Williams will not be enough.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle.

Jacque Fresco

The Venus Project is a concept that could happen today but it is not up to me, it depends on what others do to help bring it about.