Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Alan Ball

It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself. Makes you wonder what else you can do that you've forgotten about.

Alan Ball

It’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain, and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.

Alan Ball

Never underestimate the power of denial.

Alan Ball

Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

Alan Ball

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

Aimee Teegarden

Whatever you do, be happy with you. Don't conform. You are who you are, and you shouldn't change that for anybody.

Donald Tusk

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

Elizabeth Bowen

nothing is more restful than conformity.

John Clarke

If we see to it that wages conform to the final productivity of social labor, we should see to it that trusts do not lower that standard.

Jerry Spinelli

Just because so many conforming kids wake up every morning asking, 'What is everybody else going to wear today?' doesn't mean that they don't wish it were different. Peer pressure is just that: pressure.

Tom Nalen

He's a great player. Any team would be happy to have him. I think he'd do well here. With this locker room, I think he would conform to our standards and fit in well here.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Adam Lambert

Conforming is not cool.

Rebel Wilson

I think that women out there should just be happy with how they look, and they shouldn't really try to conform to any stereotype. Just be happy and, hopefully, healthy.

Gordon Campbell

We know from the past that when these solutions are imposed from the outside they have failed,

Leos Carax

I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.

Steve Alford

Jeff Horner has imposed his will on this tournament.

Michael Jackson

I respect the obligation of confidentiality imposed on all of the parties to the 1993 proceedings,

Adrienne Shelly

Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.

William Cowper

Mortals, whose pleasures are their only care,/ First wish to be imposed on, and then are.

Frederick M. Vinson

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.

Vladimir Putin

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

Walid Jumblatt

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

Chita Rivera

Looking back doesn't have to be painful.

Devon Werkheiser

I love spicy food, love it. But wasabi is just painful.

David Cross

There were a handful of shows that were just painful. Not many, but things where I just said going into it, "Why am I here? What am I doing?"

Dave Barry

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America,

Byron Katie

Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

Betty Williams

But without painful experiences, we dont grow

Beyonce Knowles

If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.

David Brenner

The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.

Benjamin Watson

I'M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I've seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.