Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brigitte Bardot

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Juvenal

Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.

Juvenal

Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.]

Laura Mvula

'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.

John Updike

The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.

Keri Hilson

I've learned to duplicate my beauty regimen from drug store products.

Laila Ali

By being an athlete, I have uncovered so many other ways to express my beauty. Being a strong, fearless woman makes me feel beautiful. I love the way I look and feel when I am two hours into my training and my skin is glistening with sweat and my clothes are drenched because I have given it all I've got.

Katharine Graham

In my first year or so at the 'Post,' I began to write with some frequency on the least important issues - so-called light editorials. The titles themselves are revealing of just how light: 'On Being a Horse,' 'Brains and Beauty,' 'Mixed Drinks,' 'Lou Gehrig,' and 'Spotted Fever.'

George William Russell

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

Lea Thompson

My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.

Kourtney Kardashian

Now that I have a daughter, I've been thinking about how I'll define beauty to her. I watched a video of Kendall when she was three, and she was putting on makeup. I don't know how I feel about that. But my daughter already watches me do it. When do you let them start wearing it? I don't know yet.

Eduardo Galeano

The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.

Ellen Gilchrist

In the schools of small Midwestern towns, the only aristocracies are of beauty, intelligence, and athletic prowess.

I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calculus instructor, Francis Piersa, who opened my eyes to the striking beauty of mathematics.

Eric Christian Olsen

You pursue what you love, and if you find beauty or truth, you go with that.

There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.

Edward Herrmann

Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I'm sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile's engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing.

Cameron Russell

For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.

Blaise Pascal

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

Blaise Pascal

As we speak of poetical beauty, so ought we to speak of mathematical beauty and medical beauty. But we do not do so; and that reason is that we know well what is the object of mathematics, and that it consists in proofs, and what is the object of medicine, and that it consists in healing. But we do not know in what grace consists, which is the object of poetry.

Blaise Pascal

There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste.

When I look at you I see flawless perfection-I know somedays you think my eye needs more training- but it doesnt-I know what I see-you are a flawless beauty and time only serves to prove this right.You are my one true love-the one I have prayed for-the one I struggled and fought to believe could ever exist-and you are here.It was worth it-waiting for you has been worth it-fighting for you has been worth it.You have redefined happiness for me-I am overjoyed that you chose me.I love you.

When I look at the Hudson River, I can't help but feel overwhelmed by its beauty and responsible for its protection.

Douglas Booth

External beauty is a bizarre thing to me.

Tyra Banks

We are often told we can't have brains and beauty, and I really hope that my message is that you can put on that red lip and curl your hair and put on that power dress - you don't have to sacrifice one for the other.

Denis Johnson

Death is the mother of beauty.

Dean Koontz

...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214

Dan Barker

People are always asking, "What's the purpose of life?" That's easy. Relieve suffering. Create beauty. Make gardens.

Craig Ferguson

The queen banishes Snow White because of her beauty. But the dwarves help Snow White because they're smitten by that very beauty. It teaches kids an important lesson: Nothing matters except for your looks.

Coco Chanel

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Coco Chanel

The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.

Coco Chanel

Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.