Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Fielding

I wasn't involved in the casting at that state, but I think it was a good idea. I think she's one of those actresses where you can dress her up or dress her down. She can be very beautiful or very ordinary- looking and I think that's really important with Bridget. And I've heard she's very funny, but I've never met her.

I was not at the first Million Man March, because at that time I didn't see the value in going, ... But over the last 10 years I have listened to people tell me how beautiful the day was and how it changed their lives. The words kept coming: 'I'm going to be one in a million, put my name on the roll and let my story be told.' Now it's personal with me.

Bette Davis

I was never beautiful like Miss Hayworth or Miss Lamarr. I was known as the little brown wren. Who'd want to get me at the end of the picture?

Chris Cuomo

I was never looking to be popular. The trade-off for me in seeking other people's opinions is the potential to help that you get in the media. And we don't always do that, but when we do, it's a beautiful thing.

I would like to see a more beautiful San Antonio. It's important to a city, and to individuals,

My books are comedies; I want to take my readers on a jet-setting romp, make them laugh, make them swoon at the beautiful settings, and maybe even make their mouths water at all the food.

Louise Brooks

Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.

David Bennett

Why wouldn't you live here? We've never done any heavy marketing. We never have enough inventory. Things are bought as fast as we can build them. It's an hour to the airport, a half hour to anything you need, a small town, no crime, beautiful vistas, hiking trails, good schools. It's a lifestyle everybody would like to have if they could.

Fernando Pessoa

Whoever, when he dies, leaves on paper a beautiful line of poetry has left the heavens richer and the earth too.

When the client sat down with us ... she brought us pictures of the most beautiful flower arrangements, and she said, 'These are the colors that we want. This is what I'd like to achieve,' and we started right from there.

It'd be the beautiful solution for both GM and UAW,

I thought it was a beautiful show and I was impressed. Everything in the book that to me is important, or really moved me, is on the stage.

I thought it was a beautiful show and I was impressed.

Tommy Amaker

I thought he had a tremendous floor game. I mentioned to him at halftime that I thought he played a tremendous first half. ... It was beautiful to watch him play that way.

(Judy) had this thing that models have -- this incredible temperament. She got in front of the camera, and she just beamed. She's one of the most beautiful girls I've ever seen,

Yannick Noah

I'm so happy. I'm so happy for him, but also for all of his friends. They deserve it. It's a beautiful story.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I'm so glad you're here. . .it helps me realize how beautiful my world is.

Mary Johnson

Mankind has been creating beautiful music for many centuries. What we call early music tends to be very transparent. You can see all the parts; hear all the parts. It has clarity.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He sat down. I sat down next to him. And after a silence, he spoke again. 'The stars are beautiful because of a flower you don't see...' I answered, 'Yes, of course.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It's useful because it's beautiful.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You're beautiful, but you're empty. No one could die for you.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You are beautiful, but you are empty,” he went on. “One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The flower you single out is a rejection of all other flowers; nevertheless, only on these terms is it beautiful.

Becki Newton

When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.

Bede Griffiths

There is a beautiful expression of this in the Chandogya Upanishad: 'There is this City of Brahman, (that is the body), and in this city there is a shrine, and in that shrine there is a small lotus, and in that lotus there is a small space, (akasa). Now what exists within that small space, that is to be sought, that is to be understood.' This is the great discovery of the Upanishads, this inner shrine, this guha, or cave of the heart, where the inner meaning of life, of all human existence, is to be found.

Bebe Neuwirth

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

Beck

Somebody else is satisfied by five Bentleys. I'm satisfied by a beautiful string arrangement.

Becca Fitzpatrick

We all know you're beautiful, Scott.

Barry Ritholtz

This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.

Barry Manilow

'If I Should Love Again' - I was just so impressed with myself writing something like that. It wasn't a single and people didn't really know about it, but it's a beautiful song and that's part of what I'm loving.

Barry Manilow

When it comes to me, I just write the most beautiful music I can, I do the best work I can, and then I hand it out there.