Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Carter

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

John C. Reilly

I know I'm not some matinee idol, but I think we're sold this bill of goods by the media, which says that only the most beautiful and dashing people can become movie stars. So when someone like me sneaks in, they have to redo the calculations.

John Cage

Everyday is a beautiful day, Everything is pleasing

The last two weeks I've met some of the most beautiful people, ever.

The line worked the puck down the ice well, and Hendry made a beautiful pass to me for the goal.

The limestone should be cleaned up to look as it did originally. This building is a beautiful building, but when you look at it closely, it's just not satisfactory.

The London Memorial Garden was a beautiful green spot where residents and visitors could quietly contemplate the terrible tragedies and pay tribute to the dead and injured.

The main goal every week is to get better from the previous week. Everything went smooth. The line did a beautiful job. I give a lot of credit to the line again. The line just had a beautiful surge. They gave me the holes. All I had to do was run straight.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

James Taylor

One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My grandmother, Sarah, was in the next room. I didn't even realise she was there. I was terribly embarrassed.

James Thurber

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

James Patterson

living life was like putting the beach into a jar. The point wasn’t to fit everything in; it was to attend to the most important things first—the big, beautiful rocks—the most valuable people and experiences—and fit the lesser things in around them. Otherwise, the best things might get left out

James Patterson

Oz thinks I'm beautiful," she whispered to the stars.

James Patterson

Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time. What are we but our stories?

James Patterson

You're my best friend, my first and only love, and the most beautiful girl I've ever seen

James Patterson

Why do things this beautiful make me want to cry?" I asked Michael as I leaned into him. It was an unguarded question, one I'd never have asked of Hugh. "I don't know," said Michael. "Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.

James Patterson

Bad stuff happens. Sometimes it makes no sense at all. Sometimes its unfair. Sometimes, it just plain sucks. Bad stuff happens sometimes. Always remember that, but remember that you have to move on somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky, or the ocean, and you move the hell on.

James Patterson

Every other person in the world would have looked at it and thought, Max would hate this. It was girly. It was beautiful. It wasn't made of titanium and black leather with spikes on it. But it seemed exactly right, in a weird, heart-fluttery kind of way. And I really loved it.

James Montgomery

If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!

James Montgomery

The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.

James Mercer

I have no ethics when it comes to art. You just do what you can to make it as beautiful as you can.

James Maslow

All of my fans are beautiful. Some don't know it, & that sucks 'cause every girl deserves to know they are beautiful.

James McAvoy

I've seen beautiful actresses get spat at or just someone trying to get a rise out of them so they can get an extra hundred bucks for a photo. It's really rough.

James Mangold

One of my favourite movies is Billy Wilder's 'The Apartment.' It's shot in super wide screen, and it's beautiful.

James M. Barrie

For when you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the world - it was to open then minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts. And that is the beginning and end of literature.

James M. Barrie

Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.

James M. Barrie

She liked his tears so much that she put out her beautiful finger and let them run over it. Her voice was so low that at first he could not make out what she said. Then he made it out. She was saying that she thought she could get well again if children believed in fairies.

James M. Barrie

Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.

James M. Barrie

She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.

James Laver

The same costume will be Indecent ten years before its time, Shameless five years before its time, Outre (daring) one year before its time, Smart (in its own time), Dowdy one year after its time, Ridiculous twenty years after its time, Amusing thirty years after its time, Quaint fifty years after its time, Charming seventy years after its time, Romantic one-hundred years after its time, Beautiful one-hundred-and-fifty years after its time.

James Laughlin

Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.

Joe Queenan

Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.

Joe Queenan

Books did not need to be beautiful back in the Fifties, because nothing else was beautiful back then. Books were simply there: you read them because they were diverting or illuminating or in some way useful but not because the books themselves were aesthetically appealing.