Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Rivers

The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

Joan Rivers

I have so little sex appeal that my gynecologist calls me 'sir'.

Garry Shandling

I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.

Garrison Keillor

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor

Frank Lloyd Wright

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

Eckhart Tolle

Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one of those present, a monk called Mahakasyapa, began to smile. He is said to have been the only one who had understood the sermon. According to legend, that smile (that is to say, realization) was handed down by twenty-eight successive masters and much later became the origin of Zen.

Aristotle

The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

John Keats

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

Kevyn Aucoin

While traveling around the world, I've had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I've learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Holly Black

Clever as the Devil and twice as pretty.

Hermann Weyl

Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we have succeeded in unraveling fully the natural laws which govern reality, we find them to be expressible by mathematical relations of surprising simplicity and architectonic perfection. It seems to me to be one of the chief objects of mathematical instruction to develop the faculty of perceiving this simplicity and harmony.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.

Joseph Addison

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Jorge Luis Borges

For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.

Kevin Spacey

It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World

Kenneth Clark

The nude does not simply represent the body, but relates it, by analogy, to all structures that have become part of our imaginative experience.

Kevyn Aucoin

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

Kevyn Aucoin

Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul, and sometimes even in myself.

Khalil Gibran

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

Khalil Gibran

When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.

Khalil Gibran

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting

Khalil Gibran

Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.

Khalil Gibran

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.

Khalil Gibran

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.

Jonathan Swift

For though, in nature, depth and height Are equally held infinite: In poetry, the height we know; 'Tis only infinite below.

Jonathan Swift

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms ...

Lyndon B. Johnson

In the last few decades entire new categories of waste have come to plague and menace the American scene. Pollution is growing at a rapid rate. Pollution destroys beauty and menaces health. It cuts down on efficiency, reduces property values and raises taxes. Almost all these wastes and pollutions are the result of activities carried on for the benefit of man. A prime national goal must be an environment that is pleasing to the senses and healthy to live in. Our Government is already doing much in this field. We have made significant progress. But more must be done.

Loretta Young

Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.

Loretta Young

There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.

Lord Byron

Fills The air around with beauty.

Lord Byron

Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty.