Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel de Montaigne

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

Michel de Montaigne

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Michel de Montaigne

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

Mark Twain

There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

Marilyn Monroe

Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life.

Mark Batterson

Faith is the willingness to look foolish.

Mike Brady

Them who don't look, sometimes get took.

Nicholas A. Christakis

It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.

Naomi Campbell

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

Nadine Gordimer

Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

Publilius Syrus

Look for a tough wedge for a tough log.

Publilius Syrus

It is vain to look for a defense against lightning.

Prabal Gurung

Nails are the period at the end of the sentence. They complete the look

Preneet Kaur

I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as women politicians.

Pierre Schaeffer

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

Kristen Wiig

I always say I want to look haunted.

Kristen Wiig

When you're a woman in your thirties, and maybe you don't really know what you want to do with your life, but it seems like everyone else does, and your best friend gets married, and it forces you to look at yourself. I don't know if I described that in a very funny way.

Oprah Winfrey

I'm easy to look at, but so hard to see.

Odeya Rush

I become obsessed with one thing or one look, a Bohemian look for instance, and then I wear that for a while.

Margaret Atwood

All fat women look the same; they all look 42.

Marcel Carne

Well, you know, I'm much older than I look.

Kiana Tom

It's not being superficial, but looks do attract me from across the gym.

Ken Robinson

Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings.

Kelly Brook

Women in the 1950s were so much sexier. That's what I aspire to look like.

Kathryn Bigelow

I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

Margaret Cho

I'm always too fat. And I always look terrible. But I love the theater of the red carpet.

Margaret Cho

Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.

Patrick Ness

Francia don’t look too convinced. I never seen arms so crossed.

Patrick Ness

They open up the world. Because knowledge is useless if you don’t know how to find it, if you don’t even know where to begin to look. - on librarians

Patrick Ness

There's always beauty, if you know where to look.

Patrick Rothfuss

When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.

Paris Hilton

You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.

Paloma Faith

I stay true to my lyrics. If I go back and look at them in hindsight, the emotions I had when I wrote them have passed. It feels unjustified to change them.