Famous Quotes & Sayings

I purchased the place due to its beauty and history. I am very sad about the loss. It could not be replaced.

In your light I learn how to love.In your beauty, how to make poems.You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you.

Romesh Gunesekera

In writing, I try to find the right balance between momentum and infinity, truth and beauty.

Sarah Silverman

In terms of television and movies, I've been really interested in seeing the partnership of comedy and beauty and heart. I think they can go together really well and really thoughtfully. But, I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch.

Brian Molko

In photographs, you'll see that my beauty spot moves around my face quite a bit, depending on where the largest zit is.

Alex Honnold

I generally don't climb something if it makes me feel fear. The beauty of soloing is that there's no pressure - no one's telling me to do it. So if something seems scary, I don't have any obligation to do it. I can prepare further or just walk away entirely.

I never thought of celebrity. I'm just happy it found a home and that maybe people will find beauty and grace in it. ... I hope that it somehow touches them and gives them something they can take away with them. That's the goal of an artist.

In a good paining, each stroke is uniquely required yet it relates to all others in forming the total beauty

Candice Bergen

Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.

Janet Fitch

What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.

Jane Porter

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

Ernest Renan

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Erika Slezak

And at five o'clock in the morning we left to drive to Old Tucson, and I sat with my mouth open in the van. I was stunned by the beauty of that country.

Caroline Knapp

What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she's wearing or the food she's not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn't think about body image, ever?

James Blunt

I relax by catching up with my friends and family. When I am at home in Ibiza, I find the contrast of living on a divided island relaxing - with beauty and tranquillity in the north and a sense of fun, shallowness and celebration in the south.

Eva Herzigova

Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.

Frank Zappa

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

H. R. Giger

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

George Herbert

True beauty lives on high. Ours is but a flame borrowed thence.

Jean de la Bruyere

To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

Jean de la Bruyere

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

Jean de la Bruyere

A look of intelligence is what regularity of features is to women: it is a styule of beauty to which the most vain may aspire. [Fr., L'air spirituel est dans les hommes ce que la regularite des traits est dans les femmes: c'est le genre de beaute ou les plus vains puissent aspirer.]

Jean de la Bruyere

How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!

Jean Anouilh

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Jean Anouilh

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

Muriel Spark

It isn't necessarily the great and famous beauty spots we fall in love with. As with people, so with places. Love is unforeseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the less obvious.

Outstanding beauty, like outstanding gifts of any kind, tends to get in the way of normal emotional development, and thus of that particular success in life which we call happiness.

Kirsten Dunst

I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.

Kim Stanley Robinson

How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension?

Kim Stanley Robinson

Beauty was the promise of happiness, not happiness itself; and the anticipated world was often more rich than anything real.

Julia Cameron

At root, a pearl is a 'disturbance' a beauty caused by something that isn't supposed to be there, about which something needs to be done. It is the interruption of equilibrium that creates beauty. Beauty is a response to provocation, to intrusion. ... The pearl's beauty is made as a result of insult......

Joseph Joubert

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

Joseph Joubert

Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.