925 private quotes tagged beauty

“And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.” — William Allen Butler

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“If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.” — Peter York

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“Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.” — Laurette Taylor

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“What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.” — Dame Edith Evans

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“I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion.” — Isaac Albeniz

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“Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.” — L. Wolfe Gilbert

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“The flowers anew, returning seasons bring but beauty faded has no second spring.” — Ambrose Philips

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“I feel by posing for Playboy I've discovered my own sexuality and beauty, and I feel more confident than ever.” — Heather Kozar

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“Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.” — Emily Prager

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“Design is not making beauty; beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.” — Louis Kahn

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“A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.” — Rudolf Otto

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“I envy the sensibility in Europe, appreciating beauty in women as they age. I'm going to go that way. I might dye my gray hair for a bit, but beyond that the buck stops. I'm not having any work done.” — Rachel Bilson

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“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

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“What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!” — Alexander Herzen

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“You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.” — Helmut Jahn

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“I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?” — James Thomson

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“Doors open because you're beautiful, but I wouldn't cultivate beauty to the exclusion of brains.” — Tia Carrere

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“'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.” — Richard Chamberlain

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“Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.” — Jonathan Sacks

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“I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.” — Theodore Bikel

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“So, we just kind of created our own thing and that's part of the beauty of Athens: is that it's so off the map and there's no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.” — Michael Stipe

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“The beauty of voice-over work is that maybe you come in and record once every two weeks for a couple of hours and do a couple episodes a session. It's awesome! You spend an afternoon playing in the booth, and there you have it. It doesn't interfere with much.” — Emmanuelle Chriqui

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“I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.” — Tila Tequila

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“Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.” — Ron Ben-Israel

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“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

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