Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Leary

After you turn on, don't spend the rest of your life contemplating the inner wonders. Begin immediately expressing your revelation in acts of beauty.

Rumi

Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens.

Rumi

Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.

Vanna Bonta

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

Suzanne Collins

Having an eye for beauty isn't the same thing as a weakness...except possibly when it comes to you.

Suzanne Collins

I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

Steven A. Cohen

As the tall dark and handsome male star, Carey Grant always stands for male beauty and desirability, whether in a 30s screwball, a 40s film noir, or a 50s romantic comedy. He consequently turns around the orthodox gender between the one who looks and so desires, and the one who is looked at, and so is being desired.

Robert Burns

Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!

Robert Browning

O world, as God has made it! All is beauty.

Robert Browning

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

Robbie Williams

I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!

Richard Steele

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

Richard Steele

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

Richard Armour

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

Redd Foxx

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

Susan Sontag

The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

Susan Sontag

Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.

Susan Sontag

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

Industrial societies turn their citizens into image-junkies; it is the most irresistible form of mental pollution. Poignant longings for beauty, for an end to probing below the surface, for a redemption and celebration of the body of the world. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it.

Susan Sontag

What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

Rose Schneiderman

Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.

Raymond Chandler

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Traci Bingham

I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.

Rudyard Kipling

Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

Stevie Smith

As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.

Stevie Smith

Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able Very soon not even to cry pretty And so be delivered entirely from humanity This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty.

Stephen Sondheim

Puzzles are like songs - A good puzzle can give you all the pleasure of being duped that a mystery story can. It has surface innocence, surprise, the revelation of a concealed meaning, and the catharsis of solution.

Stephen Fry

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

Sophia Loren

Beauty is how you feel inside...

Roger Rosenblatt

A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.

W. H. Auden

You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

William Congreve

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

Wayne Dyer

Practice beauty appreciation in as many places as possible. Nature provides a virtual smorgasbord of miracles. See the beauty in all of it.