Famous Quotes
- The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
- Joan Collins on Beauty
- The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
- Northrop Frye on Beauty
- The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein on Beauty
- The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
- Vince Gill on Beauty
- The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
- Ruth St. Denis on Beauty
- The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
- Katherine Anne Porter on Beauty
- The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
- Farrah Fawcett on Beauty
- The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe on Beauty
- The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
- James Baldwin on Beauty
- The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.
- The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
- Charles Baudelaire on Beauty
- The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
- Salvador Dali on Beauty
- The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.
- Robert Musil on Beauty
- The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
- Harrison Ford on Beauty
- The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
- The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.
- Julie Burchill on Beauty
- The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
- Sarah Bernhardt on Beauty
- The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.
- Daniel Hannan on Beauty
- The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.
- Adam Carolla on Beauty
- The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique.
- Minna Antrim on Beauty
- The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
- Clifford Geertz on Beauty
- The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.
- David Remnick on Beauty
- The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
- There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
- Charles Baudelaire on Beauty
- There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
- Gustav Stickley on Beauty
- There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
- Arthur Helps on Beauty
- There are two kinds of artists in this world those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
- Anna Katharine Green on Beauty
- There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
- June Jordan on Beauty
- There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
- Conrad Hall on Beauty
- There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
- Tadao Ando on Beauty
- There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
- Vera Brittain on Beauty
- There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.
- Jonathan Ive on Beauty
- There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
- John Kenneth Galbraith on Beauty
- There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
- Christian Nestell Bovee on Beauty
- There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
- H. R. Giger on Beauty
- There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
- William Congreve on Beauty
- There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.
- Anna Quindlen on Beauty
- There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
- Maria Mitchell on Beauty
- There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Francis Bacon on Beauty
- There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
- Loretta Young on Beauty
- There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.
- John Clayton on Beauty
- There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.
- Gertrude Jekyll on Beauty
- There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
- Joseph Addison on Beauty
- There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
- Oscar Wilde on Beauty
- There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.
- Helena Christensen on Beauty
- There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.
- Scott Weiland on Beauty
- There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
- There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
- John Erskine on Beauty
- There's a sadness to the human condition that I think music is good for. It gives a counterpoint to the visual beauty, and adds depth to pictures that they wouldn't have if the music wasn't there.
- Mike Figgis on Beauty
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