Beauty Quotes
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There are beauty icons that I can never be like, sorta like a Gena Rowlands - I'll never have that look. I love Giulietta Masina, the great Fellini actress. But I'm probably more Seymour Cassel. Or somewhere between Lou Reed and Nora Ephron?
Natasha Lyonne
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Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.
Van Morrison
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I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
Wallace Stevens
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There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.
Carine Roitfeld
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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
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Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
Camille Paglia
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We can achieve happiness only then when we have a beauty; and we have a beauty thanks to philosophy. The truth is that only because of philosophy we can achieve happiness.
Al-Farabi
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I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.
A. L. Rowse
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Beauty is a form of Genius — is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.
Oscar Wilde
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You can sustain visual beauty and innovative visual ideas for a certain length of time, but in a two-hour experience, which is really what movies are, usually audiences - whether they know it or not - most want an emotional connection to character.
Gavid Hood
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The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.
Bayard Taylor
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We traveled so far and your friendship meant everything. It was very difficult, but there were moments of beauty. Everything ends. I am not afraid.
Emily St. John Mandel
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A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.
Stevie Wonder
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we are touched by the beauty and poetry and mystery that fill our world.
Tara Brach
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The Steinway piano - with its beauty and power - is the perfect medium for expressing the performer's art, drama and poetry.
Van Cliburn
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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil
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You have to get over the color green; you have to quit associating beauty with gardens and lawns; you have to get used to an inhuman scale; you have to understand geological time.
Wallace Stegner
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No matter how irrelevant social class now is, even the most eager egalitarian must be quietly proud that the posh English rose is still an industry standard for peerlessly sophisticated beauty.
Kate Reardon
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A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe.
Gabriela Mistral
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Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.
Damian Loeb
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
Plotinus
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I'm not bad-looking, but I'm not a beauty, either.
Carine Roitfeld