Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Petty

It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.

Sinead O'Connor

My kids really are my center. They create a beautiful chaos. It's always a nice chaos with them.

Sinead O'Connor

Islam - a religion horribly misrepresented by terrorists, which is like the IRA saying they represented Irish people. Islam is a BEAUTIFUL religion. would make you cry it's so beautiful... and gentle.

Simone Elkeles

Look at me, chica." When she does, I repeat, "Eres hermosa." "What does it mean?" "You're beautiful.

Simone Elkeles

Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love.

Simone Elkeles

It’s not Brittney’s face, not her smile, not even her eyes. All of that surface stuff made the world see her as beautiful, but it was the deeper stuff that made her different.

Simone de Beauvoir

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.

Simone Weil

Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.

Simone Weil

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

Simone Weil

The poet produces the beautiful by fixing his attention on something real.

Simone Weil

Fortunately the sky is beautiful everywhere.

Simone Weil

The beautiful is the experimental proof that the incarnation is possible.

Simone Weil

In reality nothing is so beautiful as the good, nothing is so monotonous and boring as evil.

Simone Weil

The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from fruit trees in blossom. To know that what is most precious is not rooted in existence - that is beautiful.

Simone Weil

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Simone Weil

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.

Simon Sinek

Leave America and you'll find that the consumers in many other countries enjoy watching advertising. Not because the products are better, but because the ads are produced to be entertaining. Sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they are dramatic. Sometimes they are just beautiful.

Simon Sinek

Sometimes we give too much too soon. Sometimes we hold back for too long. This is our beautiful dance. Our imperfect dance. This is the dance that makes us human.

Jules Massenet

If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.

Jules Renard

A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

Jules Renard

Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.

Joshua Slocum

I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

Joshua Johnson

To the designer, great design is beautiful design. A significant amount of effort must be placed into making the product attractive. To the client, great design is effective. It must bring in customers and meet the goals put forth to the designer in the original brief. To the user, great design is functional. It’s easy to read, easy to use and easy to get out of it what was promised Truly great design, then, is when these three perspectives are considered and implemented equally to create a final product that is beautiful, effective and functional.

Joshua Jackson

Uma Thurman is one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen. She has those wicked eyes - it looks like there is such a brain behind those eyes.

Joshua Jackson

I think Uma Thurman is one of God's creatures, one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen.

Karl Barth

Grace creates liberated laughter. The grace of God...is beautiful, and it radiates joy and awakens humor.

Karl Kraus

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

Karl Kraus

What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?

Karl Lagerfeld

Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

Karl Lagerfeld

Beauty—or the desire to be beautiful—is in itself a dangerous motivation. Someone (I forgot who) once said, ‘Does the person who loves someone for their beauty really love them?’ So don’t focus on beauty ... a respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul. It is the sum of our experiences that makes us interesting, and having been through a time in your life in which you were in a bad place (or what you perceived as a bad place) physically, can be useful. It can even be necessary.

Karl Lagerfeld

Adele is another problem. I never said that she was fat. I said that she was a little roundish; a little roundish is not fat. But for such a beautiful girl... after that she lost eight kilos [17.6 pounds] so I think the message was not that bad.

Karl Lagerfeld

I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

Karl Lagerfeld

Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.