Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edith Schaeffer

It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!

Edith Schaeffer

I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of ‘art’ (p. 213).

Edith Schaeffer

If you have been afraid that your love of beautiful flowers and the flickering flame of the candle is somehow less spiritual than living in starkness and ugliness, remember that He who created you to be creative gave you the things with which to make beauty and the sensitivity to appreciate and respond to His creation.

Edmond Rostand

How obvious it is now--the gift you gave him. All those letters, they were you... All those beautiful powerful words, they were you!.. The voice from the shadows, that was you... You always loved me!" Roxanne

Edmond Rostand

Roxane: His face is like yours, burning with spirit and imagination. He is proud and noble and young and fearless and beautiful- Cyrano:(losing all his colour.) Beautiful! Roxane: Yes. What's wrong? Cyrano: With me? Nothing. It's only... only... (Displaying his bandaged hand, with a little smile.) This fatal wound.

Edith Sitwell

Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.

Edith Wharton

It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.

Edith Wharton

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

Edith Wharton

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

Eddie Murphy

After all these years, I've done well and I'm cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I've saved some paper, everybody's healthy, my kids are beautiful and smart, doing different things, it's all good.

Ed Asner

I regard myself as a beautiful musical instrument, and my role is to contribute that instrument to scripts worthy of it.

Dean Cain

A lot of beautiful people are stupid. There are a tremendous number of idiots who look so good. It's frightening.

David Remnick

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

David Henry Hwang

Consider it this way: what would you say if a blond homecoming queen fell in love with a short Japanese businessman? He treats her cruelly, then goes home for three years, during which time she prays to his picture and turns down marriage from a young Kennedy. Then, when she learns he has remarried, she kills herself. Now I believe you should consider this girl to be a deranged idiot, correct? But because it's an Oriental who kills herself for a Westerner–ah!–you find it beautiful.

David Heyman

I got a few things, because I think the props are so beautiful as much as anything else. The detail of the work is something that one has no idea of.

David Hockney

West Yorkshire is quite dramatic and beautiful, the crags and things.

David Hockney

There's no-one up there in Northern Norway , food's terrible, but it's very, very beautiful to look at, if you've got eyes, and enjoy looking.

David Hockney

I believe that the very process of looking can make a thing beautiful.

David Hockney

I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light.

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.