Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maurice Ravel

It is beautiful; it is beautiful after all; I have said nothing; I leave nothing. I have not said what I wanted to say. I have so much more to say.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but has no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not

Saddam Hussein

Just as your beautiful skyscrapers were destroyed and caused your grief, beautiful buildings and precious homes crumbled over their owners in Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq because of American weapons used by the Zionists,

Jermaine was a beautiful boy, end of story. My beautiful boy. My beautiful boy.

Jennifer is going to be one of our kids who really makes it. She's beautiful and she's taking initiative. She's picked up in her classes and she dreams for her future.

Japanese see suicide as tragic, yet beautiful or somehow sincere.

David Eckstein

Last year had a lot of tradition and a lot of history and now we're opening up something new -- and it's beautiful. It's a new era of baseball. You definitely miss the old stadium, but now you have something as beautiful as this. You're kind of torn between them both.

It has a fairyland quality. It's a spectacularly beautiful Garden of Eden.

Christina Kim

I think this is what golf is all about, ... You have the same crowd that you would normally have in a regular LPGA event, but . . . you get some emotions out there that you wouldn't expect to see on the golf course. . . . It's a beautiful thing.

I think this is the most beautiful ugly win we've had in the history of our program.

It is open, free to the public. Come down to view these beautiful snow geese as they are sitting on a reservoir just outside of Delta called Gunnison Bend Reservoir. And we have a big tent set up here and the city has helped us get some nice facilities there and there are booths and crafts and it is fun to come out and see the birds and mingle with the people here.

Marguerite Young

I think that the style is the writing, a beautiful sense of style. And if you don't have it, it doesn't matter what you write, it doesn't really make any difference. I'm not speaking of realistic novels now, but of the pseudo-poetic novel or short story.

I think that was the probably the most beautiful ugly win we've ever had in the history of our program. It was not pretty by any means. It was a war out there. It was a battle. They made us work and we did the same to them, as well.

Laura Bush

I think it is one of the most beautiful Christmas trees I've ever seen.

I think it's a real neat town, ... This is beautiful country.

It is a beautiful sacrifice taking the time to do, when each of us surrenders everything to this one common cause.

It is a beautiful dream, but not one I would be expecting.

Joakim Noah

It hurts when you have so many beautiful girls out there telling you you're ugly.

Mike Huckabee

It hurts to see beautiful homes like this gone,

I think the only necessary conclusion is that we are too beautiful, because being not beautiful at all just doesn't make sense.

David May

It hit all of us like a sledgehammer. The kids were so happy. ... They were wonderful. You just can't imagine going from a beautiful moment to it's all over. It's a tragedy all the way around.

Danny Glover

Playing opposite her was just a dance in sharing -- a beautiful dance in sharing, ... We were like singing a song to each other.

Katharine Hepburn

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.

Picnic Island is probably one of the most beautiful parks in the city. Why would we not want it as part of our boundaries?

Herbie Hancock

Recently I've been listening to Mahler; it's beautiful stuff. I just saw a performance of Mahler's Eighth Symphony on television, and it was awesome. The music was so gorgeous I wasn't just crying tears, I was sobbing.

Patriotism is a beautiful thing - to love your country, your land, and your people and have a deep emotional affinity. But it can be so easily corrupted to polarized thinking, to harming others and ourselves if we don't realize what it is that is beautiful. It is beautiful because it is love.

Particularly, I enjoy strolling in the streets, watching passersby, gazing at the beautiful variety of the dresses and perceiving their joy; their sadness. At home, during the small hours of the night, I'll paint from memory what I have seen in the streets until I am under the impression of being with them again.

Kobe Bryant

I think the biggest change is we have a system that we believe in and we trust, ... It's Phil and the system ? absolutely. It's a beautiful system. When everything's clicking, it's a beautiful thing to watch.

Thorstein Veblen

Labor wants also pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister

Carl Perkins

I was bucking a good-looking cat called Elvis who had beautiful hair, wasn't married, and had all kinds of great moves.

I thought that the goal that we got was a beautiful finish. That was excellent.

I thought she did well. The one that was scored on her was a beautiful goal, and that's one that is going to get scored no matter what you do.

I think we're going back to a beautiful woman, ... Not with the glamour of the '80s -- it's a more beautiful, healthy girl.