Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernhard Schlink

why does what was beautiful shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths?

Bernhard Schlink

Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?

Bernhard Schlink

Why? Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Why does the memory of years of happy marriage turn to gall when our partner is revealed to have had a lover all those years? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?

Bernhard Schlink

I'm not frightened. I'm not frightened of anything. The more I suffer, the more I love. Danger will only increase my love. It will sharpen it, forgive its vice. I will be the only angel you need. You will leave life even more beautiful than you entered it. Heaven will take you back and look at you and say: Only one thing can make a soul complete and that thing is love.

Bernie Mac

My daughter was a beautiful child.

Edward Hopper

To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.

Edward Hirsch

Often you've read another poem that you think is so beautiful that you'd like to make something like that. And so you try to make a sonnet that works in a certain kind of way, or you try to make something that's songlike, or you create a refrain, or you love the way a poem works in two line stanzas and you try to do that.

Edith Head

Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.

Edith Head

I assure you that even the most beautiful women are not pretty all over. They have merely learned to use clothes deftly enough to give others the impression that they are.

Edith Schaeffer

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

Edith Schaeffer

I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of ‘art’ (p. 213).

Edith Schaeffer

If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.

Edmond Rostand

How obvious it is now--the gift you gave him. All those letters, they were you... All those beautiful powerful words, they were you!.. The voice from the shadows, that was you... You always loved me!" Roxanne

Edmond Rostand

Roxane: His face is like yours, burning with spirit and imagination. He is proud and noble and young and fearless and beautiful- Cyrano:(losing all his colour.) Beautiful! Roxane: Yes. What's wrong? Cyrano: With me? Nothing. It's only... only... (Displaying his bandaged hand, with a little smile.) This fatal wound.

Edith Sitwell

Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.

Edith Wharton

It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.

Edith Wharton

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

Edith Wharton

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

Eddie Murphy

After all these years, I've done well and I'm cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I've saved some paper, everybody's healthy, my kids are beautiful and smart, doing different things, it's all good.

Ed Asner

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

Dean Cain

A lot of beautiful people are stupid. There are a tremendous number of idiots who look so good. It's frightening.

David Remnick

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

David Henry Hwang

Consider it this way: what would you say if a blond homecoming queen fell in love with a short Japanese businessman? He treats her cruelly, then goes home for three years, during which time she prays to his picture and turns down marriage from a young Kennedy. Then, when she learns he has remarried, she kills herself. Now I believe you should consider this girl to be a deranged idiot, correct? But because it's an Oriental who kills herself for a Westerner–ah!–you find it beautiful.

David Heyman

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

David Hockney

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

She had a lot of friends, both men and women. She was the kind of person that people were just drawn to. She was just beautiful and sweet.

She had a beautiful voice. She was a trained concert singer.

She did a beautiful thing. We hope to have her around her for a long time.

She did very well. She's very poised. She's a beautiful girl.

Kelly Hoppen

She has to deal with her tears in public, which makes it hard. But Sienna is a beautiful girl who will get through it. I'm sure they'll get through it.

She handled it very well. She pulled herself together and shot five beautiful shots. We're just so thrilled for her.

She had big beautiful eyes, a beautiful smile, she was an excellent student and loved to help others. She was just someone other young people gravitated to.

She had a wonderful personality and was a beautiful person.