Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau

Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.

Henry David Thoreau

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

Henry David Thoreau

The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds them, more than to the gardens of men. There is something indescribably inspiriting and beautiful in the aspect of the forest skirting and occasionally jutting into the midst of new towns, which, like the sand-heaps of fresh fox-burrows, have sprung up in their midst. The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.

Henry Ford

I am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of character in each personality. But I don't know what spirit is, nor matter either. I suspect they are forms of the same thing. I never could see anything in this reputed antagonism between spirit and matter. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life.

Henry Ford

To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things.

Manny Farber

The cold, mean 'Sunset Boulevard' - a beautiful title, though I suspect it was shot on another boulevard - is further proof of the resurgence of art in the Hollywood of super-craftsmen with insuperable taste.

Manfred von Richthofen

I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.

Mandy Patinkin

I FEEL THE MOST ALIVE WHEN I'M SINGING. I ALSO GET TO BE THE MAIL MAN FOR SOME OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LYRICS EVER WRITTEN.

Mandy Moore

When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.

Malcolm Mclaren

The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.

Malin Akerman

I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

Malin Akerman

Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

Malcolm Muggeridge

[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.

Malcolm X

If Africa wasn't beautiful the white man wouldn't want it.

Malcolm X

The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing.

Malcolm Gladwell

A lot of what is most beautiful about the world arises from struggle.

Mahatma Gandhi

I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

Harvey Keitel

Well, it's such an intricate, beautiful script about eight professional robbers pulling a heist, and it deals with elements of betrayal, trust, instinct, and need for relationships.

Harvey Keitel

All actors do that. Should do that and do that. For the most part. I say all actors. I'm exaggerating, but you know who does and who doesn't. Vince is a wonderful young actor who knows his work and did a beautiful job on this film.

Harvey Keitel

To create characters, one must build background. And one of the tools we use is improvisation

And it would open up a beautiful part of North Dakota to the whole public.

Hunter S. Thompson

And that, I think was the handle-that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply Prevail. There was no point in fighting-on our side or theirs, We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave..

Bill Conti

All you have to do is open up a little bit and then you'll be experiencing a part of that person's soul. It's just there -- in the presence of a beautiful painting, a creation, something created by someone else. This is insight into not who they are physically, but who they are on this other plane, so, what makes it magic, always, is to hear music performed live.

The girls played a beautiful game together. Our defensive unit was probably the best it played as a team all season.

Giorgio Armani

The glimpse of a young woman's beautiful breast is a pleasure,

The devotees look beautiful in the True Court; night and day, they are happy. They are imbued with the Love of the Transcendent Lord; servant Nanak is a sacrifice to them.

Rudy Giuliani

The first thing that has to be accomplished by this design is to properly and in a beautiful and compelling way capture the significance of what happened at this place,

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.