Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?

Charles Bukowski

Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.

E. P. Thompson

We have plenty of snow. We have really been blessed this year with beautiful snow.

Steve Almond

The craziest Peep-related candy I've ever gotten is a chocolate egg with a Peep inside it. Someone went to a lot of trouble to make that, which strikes me as both beautiful and pathetic.

The facilities are magnificent, the campus is beautiful - I even like living four days a week in Providence, which I never thought I was going to do,

Bernie Siegel

Feelings aroused by the touch of someones hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.

Bruce Nauman

I'm surprised when the work appears beautiful, and very pleased. And I think work can be very good and very successful without being able to call it beautiful, although I'm not clear about that. The work is good when it has a certain completeness, and when it's got a certain completeness, then it's beautiful.

Bruce Springsteen

Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.

Bruce Springsteen

If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.

Bruce Springsteen

All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records, but if you were a kid, you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.

Bruce Springsteen

She went away, she cut me like a knife Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life In just a glance, down here on magic street Loves a fool's dance And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.

Brian Johnson

I have my 1973 Citroen DS 23 Pallas. I drive it all the time. It's still the most beautiful shape in the world.

Brian Jacques

All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.

Brian Austin Green

I've just had some of the worst situations with the most beautiful girls, who I just could not stand talking to anymore. The physical only lasts for so long.

Brian Andreas

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

Brendan Fraser

Elizabeth Hurley and I had a lot of fun together. She's a very beautiful, confident woman

Brendan Fraser

I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know.

Brad Pitt

When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.

Brad Pitt

I embrace the messiness of life, I find it so beautiful actually.

Jan Morris

I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one sex or another, and that the infinite subtlety of the shading from one extreme to the other was one of the most beautiful of nature's phenomena.

Jamie Farr

Vancouver is a beautiful area, I don't care what time of the year you're there. Vancouver and Calgary. Great places in Canada.

Jamie Farr

You know what's nice about Montreal? Not only is it a beautiful city, but you have Cuban cigars.

Jamie Foxx

Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

James Whistler

Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony

We are going to make each hotel obscenely rich and obscenely beautiful and position them at the top off their markets.

Steve Jobs

We are going to make a great computer even better. The new iMac is far more beautiful and thinner.

Steve Jobs

We are going to make a great computer even better, ... The new iMac is far more beautiful and thinner.

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.