Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
~By Imelda Marcos ~
As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul.
~By Rachel Weisz ~
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!
~By Joel McHale ~
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
It is now time to reverse the trend we have seen developing over the years, that of beauty at all costs and health will take care of itself.
~By Bill Munson ~
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
~By David Hume ~
All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.
~By Michael Franti ~
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
~By John Donne ~
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
~By Phyllis Diller ~
Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.
~By Colleen Atwood ~
I'm only wanted by directors for the image I give off, and it makes me angry. I always wanted to be an actor and not a beauty pageant winner.
~By Jude Law ~
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
~By William Hazlitt ~
People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
~By Candice Bergen ~
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
~By Christian Dior ~
We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
~By David Amram ~
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
~By Albert Camus ~
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
~By Gabrielle Union ~
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
Exuberance is beauty.
~By William Blake ~
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
~By Charles Lamb ~
When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
~By Helen Rowland ~
Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.
~By Emily Prager ~
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
~By Nikos Kazantzakis ~
But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.
~By Edward Witten ~
Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.
~By Richard Armour ~
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.
~By William Allen Butler ~
It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
~By John Ruskin ~
Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
~By Gerard Manley Hopkins ~
One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness.
~By Miriam Beard ~
The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.
~By John Lone ~
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.
~By Rose Schneiderman ~
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
~By Douglas Horton ~
My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.
~By Roberto Benigni ~
Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
~By Edward Gibbon ~
I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.
~By Robert Caro ~
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.
~By Polykarp Kusch ~
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
~By Sara Teasdale ~
Because, if one is writing novels today, concentrating on the beauty of the prose is right up there with concentrating on your semi-colons, for wasted effort.
~By Neil Gaiman ~
I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.
~By Mariel Hemingway ~
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
~By Paul Getty ~
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
~By Edwin Way Teale ~
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
~By Margaret Bourke-White ~
Beauty has a lot to do with character.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.
~By Pam Grier ~
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.
~By John Millington Synge ~
You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
~By Boris Pasternak ~
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
~By Socrates ~
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
~By Claude Debussy ~
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
~By Henry Ellis ~
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.
~By John Clayton ~
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
~By William Congreve ~
This was meaningful that at almost 41 years old, I could be getting my first beauty campaign.
~By Teri Hatcher ~
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
~By Jean Kerr ~
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
~By Salvador Dali ~
One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty.
~By Edward Witten ~
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
~By Edward Steichen ~
One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.
~By Ed Rendell ~
I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
~By Peggy Fleming ~
The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
~By Murray Kempton ~
I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.
~By Anne Heche ~
Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
~By Vladimir Kramnik ~
Beauty is less important than quality.
~By Eugene Ormandy ~
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
~By Albrecht Durer ~
I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty.
~By Zoe Saldana ~
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
~By Samuel Daniel ~
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
~By Lew Wallace ~
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.
~By June Jordan ~
I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.
~By Jung Chang ~
The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.
~By Mike Weir ~
Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.
~By Thomas Nash ~
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
~By Fanny Brice ~
Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.
~By Stephen Collins ~
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
Beauty magazines make my girlfriend feel ugly.
~By James De La Vega ~
It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.
~By Paul Dirac ~
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
~By Langston Hughes ~
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.
~By Anna Katharine Green ~
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.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from.
~By Daphne Zuniga ~
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
~By George Meredith ~
All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
~By Evelyn Underhill ~
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
We're here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That's what art forms are about.
~By Charlie Haden ~
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
~By Anne Roiphe ~
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