Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

The sense of ultimate truth is the intellectual counterpart of the esthetic sense of perfect beauty, or the moral sense of perfect good.

George R. R. Martin

We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.

Frederick Law Olmsted

If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such scenes is readily comprehended. . . . The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.

Frank Sinatra

I am a thing of beauty.

George Edward Moore

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

George Eliot

Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.

George Eliot

There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.

Fergie

I have learned more and more to enjoy my body when I have a few extra pounds on, just being more voluptuous. I say, focus on the body part that you feel most comfortable about.

Fay Weldon

Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.

Farrah Fawcett

The reason the all-American boy prefers beauty over brains is that the all-American boy can see better than he can think.

Farrah Fawcett

I thought Marilyn Monroe was the most beautiful woman in the world and Elizabeth Taylor breathtaking. But when I see myself on the screen I say: 'Oh shoot! What are they talking about?'

Eugene Ormandy

Beauty is less important than quality.

Euripides

Delight in splendor is no more than happiness with little for both and have their appeal.

Euripides

Oh, what a vileness human beauty is; corroding, corrupting everything it touches.

Francis Beaumont

There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.

Jeff Vandermeer

I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.

Jean Rostand

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

Goldie Hawn

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

Golda Meir

Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The human heart yearns for the beautiful in all ranks of life. The beautiful things that God makes are His gift to all alike. I know there are many of the poor who have fine feeling and a keen sense of the beautiful, which rusts out and dies because they are too hard pressed to procure it any gratification.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

Halle Berry

Beauty is not just physical. It's about what you stand for, how you live your life.

Halle Berry

We've become obsessed with beauty and the fountain of youth and, frankly, I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

Homer

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

Ian Stewart

...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible picture... Mathematicians are just beginning to understand these basic building blocks of change and to analyze how they combine. The methodology involved has a very different spirit from traditional modeling with differential equations: it is more like chemistry than calculus, requiring careful counterpoint between analysis and synthesis.

Ian Stewart

Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the queen of mathematics." Queens are regal, but they are also largely decorative, and this nuance was not lost on Gauss.

Ian Stewart

Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation. The typical system can exist in a variety of states, some ordered, some chaotic. Instead of two opposed polarities, there is a continuous spectrum. As harmony and discord combine in musical beauty, so order and chaos combine in mathematical [and physical] beauty.

Games we've won this year for the most part we've won with our defense. We've got a lot of players that can run in and out, and the beauty of this group is they're versatile. I can have them play two or three different positions sometimes. They may look at me like I'm crazy, but they go out and do it.

Good taste ruled every detail, ... When the curtain rose, we were drawn out of the everyday world into a world of grace and beauty where charming people with not-too-intense feelings played out unreal situations that never reflected the crude realities of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The grand style arises when beauty wins a victory over the monstrous.