Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

George Bernard Shaw

There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

Gena Showalter

If only Paris and the Harpies had gotten along. But Promiscuity had taken one look at the beautiful women and deemed them “too much effort.

Gena Showalter

From the first, you enchanted me. You are more than beautiful. You are smart and strong and determined. When I'm with you. I want to be a better man. I want to be worthy of you. I want to provide for you I want to give you the life you deserve. One day, I will. Because I know, deep in my soul, that to part is to die. - Gideon to Scarlet (wedding vows)

Gena Showalter

Her hand fluttered over her heart. "Did you just say the word shopping without flinching?" "I did. So?" "So, that's gotta be a record. It's a worldwide fact men hate shopping." "How can I hate it when I've never done it?" Her lips curled into a slow, beautiful smile. "If you weren't already an angel, I'd dub you a saint. Poor guy. You have no idea what you're in for.

Gena Showalter

Legion hissed like a startled cat, the noise scraping at Reyes’s skin. “Me no boy. You think me a boy?” Everyone stopped, stared. Even Aeron. Reyes was the first to find his voice. “You’re a…girl?” A nod. “Me pretty.” “Yes, you are.” Reyes exchanged a glance with Lucien. “Beautiful.

Gary Lightbody

I'm not saying there's not darkness in there still, but it's happening from outward factors more than inward. Maybe things are terrifying, but they're beautiful, too. The world is extremely surprising.

Gary Larson

Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.

Gary Larson

A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.

Galileo Galilei

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

Frederick William Robertson

What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.

Freeman Dyson

That's, of course, the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

Freeman Dyson

If you go to London now, not everything is beautiful, but it's amazingly better than it was. And the Thames is certainly a lot better: There are fish in the Thames.

Fred Couples

Always count your blessings. Be thankful you are able to be out on a beautiful course. Most people in the world don't have that opportunity.

Franz Kafka

There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me. I feel that they were calm and beautiful. It must be so, for I often hear people talking about them as though they were.

Even some of the industry's most beautiful celebrities shouldn't be wearing (Daisy Dukes). You have to remember, Jessica even trained every day, with a trainer, and was on a strict diet, really just to look good in those shorts.

Even though it is snowing out, people can come and get into the spring spirit. The pieces are upbeat and so moving. The overall spring look of the performers is spectacular, it's going to be a beautiful and eloquent spring Mozart performance.

Everybody here knows what today is and everybody's giving thanks for that day. It's beautiful to see the people come out and see the sunrise.

Everyone that came through our farm said what a beautiful farm it was. It's a big cleanup job, but I don't give up that easy I'll start again.

Sarah Susanka

Every room -- indeed, every square foot . . . has been designed as everyday living space, ... and the money saved by reducing the volume of space has been invested instead in tailoring to fit its owners to a T: on beautiful design and craftsmanship, on healthy and resource-efficient materials, and on better building practices.

Beautiful words on international solidarity don't mean a thing if we would quit after the smallest setback.

Beautiful views of Mount Etna, beautiful people, beautiful gardens and very close to the Greek theater. Bellissimo.

Oscar Wilde

Beautiful things like beautiful sins belong to the rich,

Donna Karan

beautiful studies of new whites -- whites that are not really white. They're sort of alabaster and ice tones and gray tones.

Fred Anderson

Beautiful places, they were. They had porches in front, high ceilings in the apartments. You could watch the West Albany fireworks. But that was long before your time.

Robert Bridges

Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come, / And bright in the fruitful valleys the streams, wherefrom / Ye learn your song.

Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.

Edward Tufte

Beautiful Evidence follows a growing concern in my work: assessing the quality of evidence and of finding out the truth.

Beautiful area, great facility. We've got a great group of guys at Don Schumacher Racing. He gives us incredible resources to work with. He gives you everything you need to get the job done. Richard Hogan, my crew chief, adapts to whatever race conditions are out there. I'm excited about the next few races. Can't wait to get back into the car.

Somebody pinch me, it's real. This is going to be the beginning of a beautiful start. It really is.

Susan Brown

Some places will have a beautiful fireplace that is blocked by a couch. We want to highlight the focal points of the room by working with what we have.

M. Night Shyamalan

So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.

So when I say it I mean it, and it is not a hypothesis. I have experienced It that way. The mind can be used and can be put aside. It is an instrument, a very beautiful instrument; no need to be so obsessed with it. No need to be so fixed, fixated with it. Then it becomes a disease.