Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lupita Nyong'o

You can't eat beauty, it doesn't sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty inflamed the heart and merchants the soul.

Lupe Fiasco

You ain't got to change the whole world. You just alter it a little bit and you redefine it into something beautiful.

Luise Rainer

Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost.

Louise Brooks

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

John Cheever

Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.

John Cheever

Our country is the best country in the world. We are swimming in prosperity and our President is the best president in the world. We have larger apples and better cotton and faster and more beautiful machines. This makes us the greatest country in the world. Unemployment is a myth. Dissatisfaction is a fable. In preparatory school America is beautiful. It is the gem of the ocean and it is too bad. It is bad because people believe it all. Because they become indifferent. Because they marry and reproduce and vote and they know nothing.

John Archibald Wheeler

It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

John Archibald Wheeler

Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a century, or a millennium - we will all say to each other, how could it have been otherwise? How could we have been so stupid?

John Armstrong

The most beautiful form of compromise is forgiveness.

You can't turn on Entertainment Television without seeing Angelina Jolie. She has such gorgeous, beautiful lips.

Very little bothers me more than seeing or hearing something so astoundingly beautiful that I am unable to put it into words.

Orson Scott Card

If human beings are all monsters, why should I sacrifice anything for them?" "Because they are beautiful monsters..., And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.

Orson Scott Card

He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.

You feel the electricity and the energy. We are giving something to them -- our gifts -- and they are giving something back to us -- their appreciation. And it's a beautiful exchange. That's why I'm a performer.

Robert Kiyosaki

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

Masiela Lusha

I often feel like a pretender when wearing makeup. The most beautiful features in a woman are her character and her experiences. Why hide that?

You can't really describe what you're feeling when you score a goal like that. It was a beautiful moment.

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.

It's an excellent course and a nice freeway and on a beautiful day too.

It looked like a piece of art. It was one of the most beautiful goals I saw in high school.

It's great. It's a great management tool because we can create these little pictures of polygons as we call them and create a beautiful map.

It's hard being a beautiful celebrity. I wouldn't know, but I've got to imagine it has to be very difficult.

This is sure a beautiful piece of hardware.

Taylor Swift

Never never never compare yourself to the beautiful girls. There's always someone gorgeous who will make you feel like you're not. It's a total confidence buster!

Sophocles

Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can conceal its miseries.

Sophocles

The Most beautiful human deed, is to be useful to others.

Stephen King

There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.

Ellen Pompeo

Happiness is not that easy to achieve, but having a handsome husband, a beautiful baby, and a great job helps.

Ellen Page

It's a beautiful book [Into the Forest], so for those who are thinking about reading it, they absolutely should. First and foremost, I just devoured it, as a story. At that time, and still, it just encompassed a lot of things that I was thinking about, and that the world is thinking about, with society's relationship to the environment, our personal relationship to it, and how disconnected we are from it, myself included.

Ellen Page

I don’t believe in eye-for-an-eye. The most incredible, sustainable, beautiful movements have been non-violent movements of civil disobedience.