Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kid Rock

I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.

Kelly Clarkson

I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.

Margaret Bourke-White

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

Margaret Cho

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.

Margaret Cho

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Leonardo da Vinci

When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only finish one portion of the drawing, just make certain that all the parts hang together, so that the study will be useful to you in the future.

Leonardo da Vinci

O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all.

Leonardo da Vinci

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

Oscar Wilde

What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons ...

Oscar Wilde

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

Paul Gallico

It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties, artificial . . . Christmas trees . . . but future generations in search of their lost Christmases may well remember its innocence; yes, and its beauty, too.

Paris Hilton

If you have a beautiful face you don’t need fake boobs to get anyone’s attention

Lea Michele

You don't need to look like everybody else. Love who you are.

Leigh Hunt

Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,-the vulgar.

Leigh Hunt

There is scarcely a single joy or sorrow within the experience of our fellow-creatures which we have not tasted; yet the belief, in the good and beautiful has never forsaken us. It has been medicine to us in sickness, richness in poverty, and the best part of all that ever delighted us in health and success.

Leigh Hunt

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.

Lafcadio Hearn

In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone.

Pablo Picasso

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

Paul Celan

German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.

Oscar Wilde

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

Oscar Wilde

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

David Rittenhouse

For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.

Imelda Marcos

In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.

Giorgio Vasari

The best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the muscles of the torso, back, legs, arms and knees, with bones underneath.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.

J. M. Coetzee

I am corrupted to the bone with the beauty of this forsaken world.

Munshi Premchand

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

Ken Wilber

Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes?

Ken Wilber

The nondual universe of One Taste arises as a spontaneous gesture of your own true nature.

Julia Ward Howe

It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.

Keri Hilson

I naturally have an athletic build, thick legs yet a lean upper body. I filled out much later than all my classmates, and I thank God for it now. I had to learn to fix what I can and accept what I cannot fix...That's probably the hardest thing.

Ken Thompson

That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.