Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Pasteur

The Greeks bequeathed to us one of the most beautiful words in our language--the word 'enthusiasm'--en theos--a god within. The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, and who obeys it.

Lord Byron

My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!

John Coltrane

There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself... I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.

John Clare

For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude.

M. Scott Peck

God creates each soul differently, so that when all the mud is finally cleared away, His light will shine through it in a beautiful, colorful, totally new pattern.

Luther Allison

I don't want to be in some big beautiful place that nobody want me, because I play the blues.

Lurlene McDaniel

Because I want you to know that your're the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. And I thought I should introduce myself. I mean, we should get to know each other. Since you're the girl I intend to marry. ~Mark Gianni

Lupita Nyong'o

[My mother] always said I was beautiful and I finally believed her at some point.

Lupita Nyong'o

I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty. Beautiful people have many advantages, but so do friendly people...I think beauty is an expression of love.

Lupita Nyong'o

I've worked hard to feel beautiful in my natural skin. Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.

Lupita Nyong'o

That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade to that beauty.

Lupita Nyong'o

What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion: for yourself and for those around you.

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.