Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clint Hurdle

I told him the beauty to this game is when you do well you don't go up. You stay around until you do lousy and then figure out how to do well again.

I want to know, for example, why beauty exists," she said, "why nature continues to contrive it, and what is the link between the life of a lightning storm with the feelings these things inspire in us? If God does not exist, if these things are not unified into one metaphorical system, then why do they retain for us such symbolic power? Lestat calls it the Savage Garden, but for me that is not enough.

Jennifer Sky

I want to be treated like the girl in American Beauty , minus the old guy drooling over me. I want to be the princess in the rose-petal bath. That's one way to win me over. I would fall deeply in love automatically. And I'd never, ever cheat on him. Promise.

The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day

Rachel Carson

They'll save their own habitat and save the beauty of our natural areas.

Luke Jensen

It's fun to give kids high fives. Dads can tell their kids, 'That's Luke Jensen, he serves with both hands.' My dad used to talk to me about Rod Laver and Pancho Segura. The beauty of sports is that it crosses all generations and genders.

George Bernard Shaw

Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty

Angela Ruggiero

It's taken away from hockey. That wasn't hockey today, in my opinion. That was power play and penalty kill. And it brought me back to last Olympics, when it was no rhythm. It was power play and penalty kill. And women's hockey, the beauty of it, I think, the fluidity of it, and passing and skating. When you have power play and penalty kill, that's all systems ... so we haven't had that much opportunity to work that.

David Cronenberg

It's the perfect car, the dream ... a combination of beauty and technology,

Sophia Amoruso

It's the beauty of the Web. You can pretend to be anything you want. But people figure out pretty quick if you don't live up to it.

It's more than just the beauty of the place. It's got the potential to be a very dangerous thing.

Henry Kravis

It's a lucky find, ... When I first saw the painting I was overwhelmed by its beauty and its condition.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

Manuel Puig

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

Louise Bogan

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

Louisa May Alcott

When Emerson's library was burning at Concord, I went to him as he stood with the firelight on his strong, sweet face, and endeavored to express my sympathy for the loss of his most valued possessions, but he answered cheerily, 'Never mind, Louisa, see what a beautiful blaze they make! We will enjoy that now.' The lesson was one never forgotten and in the varied lessons that have come to me I have learned to look for something beautiful and bright.

John Green

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

John F. Kennedy

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

Joyce Carol Oates

There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty

Kate Upton

I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.

For converse among men, beautiful persons have less need of the mind's commending qualities. Beauty in itself is such a silent orator, that it is ever pleading for respect and liking, and by the eyes of others is ever sending, to their hearts for love.

Ovid

A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

Ovid

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

Ovid

Beauty is heaven's gift, and how few can boast of beauty.

Ovid

Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.

Ovid

Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day.

Ovid

Beauty is a fragile gift.

Oscar Hammerstein II

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

Peter Garrett

I have always had, as I know many people have, a singular passion for Australia. I do love the sunburnt country, its ancient landscapes, its exhilarating reaches of sand and sea.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Spirit of BEAUTY, that dost consecrate With thine own hues all thou dost shine upon Of human thought or form, where art thou gone? Why dost thou pass away and leave our state, This dim vast vale of tears, vacant and desolate? Ask why the sunlight not for ever Weaves rainbows o'er yon mountain-river, Why aught should fail and fade that once is shown, Why fear and dream and death and birth Cast on the daylight of this earth Such gloom, why man has such a scope For love and hate, despondency and hope?