Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Fried

The main thing that drew me to him was that he was a beautiful writer, not just the clarity but the aptness of expression.

Audrey Hepburn

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Tyra Banks

The judges think, 'Beautiful girl, Beautiful pictures,' but a lot of them don't see a model in front of them.

Tyra Banks

The judges look at you and every week you are the most beautiful girl to them, but we still haven't seen that in your pictures.

Adam Grant

These flies hatch in the early spring and late fall. It's a dry fly that is usually fished pretty small. They're really beautiful bugs.

Gary Smith

This is nice. This is a beautiful bridge.

This is a guy who studies the game and works at his trade. He's all about winning. When we talked, the money had nothing to do with it. He wanted to know what our plan was about winning. He came in well informed and made a good decision for himself. I think this is going to be a beautiful marriage for us.

All I'm going to say is that I had a beautiful wife. She was a lovely woman. Think of the worst horror movie you can think of and then put that on your wife for Halloween. That's what I had to look at.

Elle Macpherson

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.

Elle Macpherson

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

Eric Lander

Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.

Missy Franklin

Sometimes we complain, but there is something beautiful about waking up before everyone to get better at what we love.

Missy Elliot

Every day is not a beautiful day for anybody, but I try to treat all my fans nice and all the interviewers nice.

Paulo Freire

When we live our lives with the authenticity demanded by the practice of teaching that is also learning and learning that is also teaching, we are participating in a total experience.... In this experience the beautiful, the decent, and the serious form a circle with hands joined.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

For me, acting is torturous, and it's torturous because you know it's a beautiful thing. I was young once, and I said, that's beautiful and I want that. Wanting it is easy, but trying to be great - well, that's absolutely torturous.

Philip Sidney

Ambition thinks no face so beautiful as that which looks from under a crown.

Philip Roth

I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was thrown. Forgive me.

Philip Johnson

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

Philip James Bailey

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

Petra Nemcova

I love to dance. I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

Peyton Manning

In life and in sports we know that nothing lasts forever. The same year the greatest physical gift (football) the Lord gave me was taken away from me, I was blessed with the greatest gift any of us could have in two beautiful children. I’d take that trade every day of the week.

Pharrell Williams

You are one of one. None before and none to come. That what makes you different, makes you beautiful.

Peter Criss

I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much.

Peter Diamandis

My goal is there's a new generation of cars. And people can say we're living in a new day and age. A new day and age of cars that are beautiful, affordable, safe, and of course every car gets over 100 mpg, why wouldn't it.

Peter Diamandis

The paradigm I want to change is that, you can have a car that is beautiful, manufacturable, affordable, safe, fast, and oh, by the way, does 100 mpg, or its energy equivalent. Why wouldn't you?

Peter Benchley

Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful as any bird. They're as mysterious as any animal on earth. No one knows for sure how long they live or what impulses―except for hunger―they respond to. There are more than two hundred and fifty species of shark, and everyone is different from every other one.

Penelope Lively

I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.

Penn Jillette

The cliche of the nerdy kid who doesn't go outside and just plays games is completely untrue. And it's also true for the nerdy kid who studies comic books and turns into this genius, and it is also true for the nerdy kid who listens to every nerdy thing that Led Zeppelin put out. That kind of obsession in a 16-year-old is not ugly. It's beautiful.

Penn Jillette

But it's much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But it's more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen.

Penn Jillette

Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.

Peggy Noonan

Naps are nature's way of reminding you that life is nice, like a beautiful swinging hammock strung between birth and infinity.

Paulo Coelho

The soul loves all things beautiful and deep.

Paulo Coelho

Our souls are prisoners of the terror of death, and the day is beautiful.