Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wyclef Jean

Her beauty lies in her work. She looks the most beautiful in the field -- natural, no makeup, nothing.

He ran a beautiful race. Very controlled, strong. All three miles he was under a six-minute pace. He ran super smart.

He played so hard and this entire team came up to shake his hand. I just sat back and watched it happen. Now that was a beautiful thing.

Great Falls is a beautiful place to walk. On the way, you see what Great Falls is doing: houses that are being rehabbed, landscapes in bloom.

Great Falls is a beautiful place to walk,

Isaiah Washington

Everything is not black-and-white . I'm really interested in the gray area - not justifying it, not glorifying it, not condoning it, but at least having people see there's a genesis for every event in our lives. There's some divine order to it, whether it's ugly or beautiful.

I could not understand how people could not like something as beautiful as the aerodrome. But I had lately become convinced that in general people were pretty boring. They liked to moan for hours on end about how hard it was to make ends meet, about the money they owed, the price of food, and other similar worries, but the minute some more brilliant or attractive subject come up, they were struck deaf.

Isla Fisher

I love religions and find them fascinating, and I find Judaism very beautiful. It's enriched my life enormously.

Irvine Welsh

It’s all okay, it’s all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous shite washed up, stranded up in ma body.

Irvine Welsh

There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction...no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.

Imre Kertesz

...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

Imogene Coca

I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.

Imelda Marcos

The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.

Imelda Marcos

They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.

Huston Smith

Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.

Gloria Naylor

black isn't beautiful and it isn't ugly - black is! It's not kinky hair and it's not straight hair - it just is.

Gloria Swanson

Tennessee Williams was a gifted talker with a beautiful accent and we had lots of things in common.

Gloria Steinem

I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly identified as a feminist, I was beautiful. So, many people were really commenting on what they thought feminists looked like.

Gloria Steinem

Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.

Giorgio Vasari

In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature.

Giorgio Vasari

Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model...

Giorgio Vasari

In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them as a model and whose finest and most beautiful aspects they are always striving to imitate and reproduce.

Giordano Bruno

Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.

Geraldine McCaughrean

Not everyone can be strong or clever. Not everyone can be beautiful. But we can ALL be brave!

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing; The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling. What is all this juice and all this joy? A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning In Eden garden.-Have, get, before it cloy...

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;...

Harold Clurman

The stage is life, music, beautiful girls, legs, breasts, not talk or intellectualism or dried-up academics.

Harold Bloom

The most beautiful prose paragraph yet written by any American.

J. M. W. Turner

To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art.

J. M. Coetzee

There is nothing more humanly beautiful than a woman's breasts. Nothing more humanly beautiful, nothing more humanly mysterious than why men should want to caress, over and over again, with paintbrush or chisel or hand, these oddly curved fatty sacs, and nothing more humanly endearing than our complicity (I mean the complicity of women) in their obsession.

J. K. Rowling

It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies.

J. K. Rowling

As the sun fell below the horizon, Sir Luckless emerged from the waters with the glory of his triumph upon him, and flung himself in his rusted armor at the feet of Amata, who was the kindest and most beautiful woman he had ever beheld. Flushed with success, he begged for her hand and her heart, and Amata, no less delighted, realized that she had found a man worthy of them.

J. K. Rowling

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.