Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyra Banks

It was really hurtful to me. I get so much mail from young girls who say, 'I look up to you, you're not as skinny as everyone else, I think you're beautiful.' So when they say that my body is 'ugly' and 'disgusting,' what does that make those girls feel like?

Tyra Banks

Paris is one of the most beautiful places in all the world. Unfortunately, I was so homesick I couldn't appreciate its beauty.

Tyra Banks

Girls of all kinds can be beautiful...

Tyra Banks

Perfect is boring, human is beautiful

Twiggy

Being a grown-up woman doesn't mean you can't look beautiful, individual and different.

William H. Gass

Words [are] more beautiful than a found fall leaf.

William Goldman

Everyone had told her, since she became a princess-in-training, that she was very likely the most beautiful woman in the world. Now she was going to be the richest and the most powerful as well. Don't expect too much from life, Buttercup told herself as she rode along. Learn to be satisfied with what you have.

William Goldman

you were already more beautiful than anything I dared to dream. In our years apart, my imaginings did their best to improve on you perfection. At night, your face was forever behind my eyes. And now I see that that vision who kept me company in my loneliness was a hag compared to the beauty now before me.” –Westley Enough about my beauty.” Buttercup said. “Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I’ve got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

William Goldman

Enough about my beauty," Buttercup said. "Everybody always talks about how beautiful I am. I've got a mind, Westley. Talk about that.

William Beebe

Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.

William Barnes

The beautiful in nature is the unmarred result of God's first creative or forming will,and ..the beautiful in art is the result of an unmistaken working of man in accordance with the beautiful in nature.

William Arthur Ward

The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence

Wayne Allard

I think most Coloradans would agree that our state is the most beautiful in the nation, and the water flowing through our borders is its life blood.

W. Somerset Maugham

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.

W. Somerset Maugham

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.

W. Somerset Maugham

It was such a beautiful day I decided to stay in bed.

W. Somerset Maugham

People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force; and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon; and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Marco Polo tells the tale of The Old Man in the Mountains and how he recruits new members to his Band of Assassins by means of drugs, beautiful women, lush gardens, and religious promises. The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

W. Somerset Maugham

She’s wonderful. Tell her I’ve never seen such beautiful hands. I wonder what she sees in you.” Waddington, smiling, translated the question. “She says I’m good.” “As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue,” Kitty mocked.

W. Somerset Maugham

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Vladimir Nabokov

but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her seaside limbs and ardent tongue haunted me ever since." "this then is my story. i have reread it. it has bits of marrow sticking to it, and blood, and beautiful bright-green flies. at this or that twist of it i feel my slippery self eluding me, gliding into deeper and darker waters than i care to probe.

Vladimir Nabokov

Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.

Yoko Ono

We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.

Yoko Ono

Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so careless.

Yoko Ono

Dance in your dream. Go out into the street and hug everyone you meet. Tell them how beautiful they are. Dance together.

Yoko Ono

What a beautiful future it will be! Don't worry about life being boring. It will never be.

Yoko Ono

Look at yourself in the mirror and don't be afraid to notice how beautiful you are.

Yoko Ono

You are beautiful. Don't ever think you are not. It may be such a compliment that does not come from a man too often. They are shy, proud, and rude. Give yourself some love. And walk as what you are - a beautiful woman. All your life.

Yoko Ono

Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

Yoko Ono

To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

Yoko Ono

I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable.

Yoko Ono

I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

Yoko Ono

There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.