Beautiful Quotes - page 17

I get so much mail from young girls who say, 'I look up to you, you're not as skinny as everyone else, I think you're beautiful' ... So when they say that my body is 'ugly' and 'disgusting,' what does that make those girls feel like? (Tyra Banks)
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
If numbers aren't beautiful, I don't know what is. View quote
Paul Erdős
Things are beautiful if you love them. View quote
Jean Anouilh
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. Mathematics is as old as Man. View quote
Stefan Banach
I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful. View quote
Lenny Kravitz
We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards. View quote
Norman Mailer
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it. View quote
Herbert Simon
We CREATORS are builders. We are dedicated to the idea of building a beautiful world so different and so superior to the present one that we CREATORS of this generation will go down in history as the revolutionaries who ushered in the Golden Age of Mankind. View quote
Ben Klassen
Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization. (William Morris)
If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. View quote
William Morris
I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets. View quote
John Glenn
Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all. View quote
Ramakrishna
Reptiles and amphibians are sometimes thought of as primitive, dull and dimwitted. In fact, of course, they can be lethally fast, spectacularly beautiful, surprisingly affectionate and very sophisticated. View quote
David Attenborough
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. View quote
Margaret Atwood
After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is. View quote
Margaret Atwood
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. View quote
G. H. Hardy
Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion! View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Betrayal is beautiful. View quote
Jean Genet
The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything. (Gloria Estefan)
The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland. View quote
Gloria Estefan
He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us. View quote
Antonin Artaud
I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs. View quote
Zelda Fitzgerald