Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Battelle

We all know the future is mobile, right? And the iPhone and iPad are Perfect Expressions of Beauty, Ideal Combinations of Form and Function. Except they're Not.

Linda Evangelista

On days when I do not work, I am working on my image. I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

Alexander Pope

'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

Alexander Pope

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Alexander Pope

Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Alexander Pope

There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change.

E. M. Forster

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Drew Barrymore

I swear to god; happiness is the best makeup.

Drew Barrymore

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

Douglas Sirk

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

Duke Ellington

A Satin Doll is a woman who is as pretty on the inside as she is on the outside.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the splendor of palace-like railway stations and hotels. Our national tympanum is so deafened by that blare of sumptuousness that we have no ears for the still, small voice of beauty.

Dorothy L. Sayers

If it ever occurs to people to value the honour of the mind equally with the honour of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort.

Dodie Smith

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Dolly Parton

I'm in the public eye, so I don't care who knows what I get done. If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I get it sucked, tucked, or plucked.

Dolly Parton

I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

Desmond Tutu

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.

Dave Sim

Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality!

Daisaku Ikeda

If we look at the world with a love of life, the world will reveal its beauty to us.

Colin Firth

I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.

Dante Alighieri

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

Dante Alighieri

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Cliff Richard

Once in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ... Until it does, I'd like to do this one.

David Hasselhoff

I'm six foot four, an all-American guy, and handsome and talented as well!

Curt Siodmak

Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.

Confucius

It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

Cybill Shepherd

If you're considered a beauty, it's hard to be accepted doing anything but standing around.

David Byrne

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

Debbie Gibson

I'm kind of a quirky dresser usually. Like today, I'm actually pretty put together, but I dress kind of off sometimes, but that's just part of my personality.

Amber Riley

I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2.

Anna Pavlova

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

Anna Quindlen

There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.