Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hockney

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

David Hume

There is nothing, in itself, valuable or despicable, desirable or hateful, beautiful or deformed; but that these attributes arise from the particular constitution and fabric of human sentiment and affection.

David Duchovny

I had to work in one of the most beautiful ski resorts in the world for almost three weeks. Pity me.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My kids just brought home a beautiful pumpkin, but you know what? I'm going to return it because it's a Democratic pumpkin. It has the orange color of John Kerry's tan, and the roundness of Teddy Kennedy.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

All I know is that the first step is to create a vision, because when you see the vision – the beautiful vision – that creates the want power.

Ben Stiller

You're freaked out that you're going to be having a child, and once you're looking after your daughter, it's the most beautiful thing in the world.

Benedict Cumberbatch

New York City is crazy and beautiful and really close to my heart, and I've always had dear friends here - family, actually, I would say.

Beatrix Potter

What we call the highest and the lowest in nature are both equally perfect. A willow bush is as beautiful as the human form divine.

Beatrice Dalle

I do not consider myself beautiful.

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

Formerly it was the fashion to preach the natural; now it is the ideal. People too often forget that these things are profoundly compatible; that in a beautiful work of imagination the natural should be ideal, and the ideal natural.

August Strindberg

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

August Strindberg

Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

Audrey Hepburn

To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.

Audrey Hepburn

I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.

Audrey Hepburn

Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.

Audrey Hepburn

When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman

Audrey Hepburn

A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.

Audrey Hepburn

People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'

Audrey Hepburn

To be beautiful lips - say kind words. To my eyes were beautiful - radiate good. A woman's beauty is not in the clothes, not in its shape or hairstyle. Beauty woman in her eyes, because the eyes - is the gateway to the heart, where love lives.

Audre Lorde

For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut stanchions against our nightmare of weakness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling

Athol Fugard

I think the aloe is one of South Africa's most powerful, beautiful and celebratory symbols. It survives out there in the wild when everything else is dried.

Arthur Rubinstein

What good are vitamins? Eat a lobster, eat a pound of caviar - live! If you are in love with a beautiful blonde with an empty face and no brains at all, don't be afraid. Marry her! Live!

Arthur Rubinstein

It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.

Arne Glimcher

People see owning a gallery as a way to get rich. I never thought that I could get rich in the art world. I wanted a life in art. I wanted to live with artists. I wanted to make beautiful shows.

Armstrong Williams

In short, we cannot grow, we cannot achieve authentic discovery, and our eyes cannot be cleansed to the truly beautiful possibilities of life, if we simply live a neutral existence.

Antony Gormley

Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do.. making life flow more easily.. but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction.. they are completely different.

Antony Garrett Lisi

The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.

Antony Garrett Lisi

Coral is a very beautiful and unusual animal. Each coral head consists of thousand of individual polyps. These polyps are continually budding and branching into genetically identical neighbors.

Antony Garrett Lisi

I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

Antony Sher

As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches and the bird accidentally turns into the wheel rather than away from it. A gentle crunch. The car passes. A shape like a discarded napkin left in the road. Still perfectly white, no red stains, but bearing no relation anymore to the shape of a bird. A trail of white feathers flutter down the road after the car. The suddeness is very upsetting. That gentle crunch.

Antonin Artaud

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.

Antonin Artaud

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.

Diablo Cody

The attitude toward women in this industry is nauseating. There are all sorts of porcine executives who are uncomfortable with a woman doing anything subversive. They want the movie about the beautiful girl who trips and falls, the adorable klutz.