Beauty Quotes

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
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
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
The very definition of 'beauty' is outside.
– Adam Carolla
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
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
– Sarah Bernhardt
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
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.
– Roy Ayers
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
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
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
– Charles Baudelaire
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.
– Tom Udall
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
The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
– Farrah Fawcett
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
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
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
– A. J. Liebling
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
– Susan Sontag
The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.
– Imelda Marcos
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.
– Robert Caro
The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.
– Helena Christensen
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
– George Santayana
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
– Alexis Carrel
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
– Edward Tufte
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
– Ruby Dee
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
– Friedrich Schiller
The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
– Ninon de L'Enclos
The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.
– Victor Hugo
The game in beauty is changing so much, if your product isn't high tech or can't make a unique performance claim - plump your lips, reduce your lines, look glossy, and stay on for 24 hours - you can't go to market today. I'm not just talking about a $20 lipstick, but a $5 lipstick!
– Andrea Jung
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The first show I ever did, singing and dancing, was 'Beauty and the Beast.' I was playing Gaston. Gaston has red tights, knee high boots, and it's very physical. I had headaches every day for two months.
– Hugh Jackman
The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.
– Fritz Todt
The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.
– David Gower
The cottage garden most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.
– Charlotte Smith
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
– Gustav Stresemann
The closest thing I use to beauty products is the grease on the pizza from John's Pizzeria.
– Mark Feuerstein
The best beauty advice I ever received is to keep skin hydrated and limit harsh exposure to the sun. If you are set on the tanned look, there are plenty of great creams that will give you a healthy-looking glow.
– Erica Durance
The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.
– Richard Le Gallienne
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
– George Sand
The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.
– Lee Scott
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
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
– Margaret Bourke-White
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
– Pat Metheny
The beauty of having short hair is that I actually can wash and style it at home!
– Meagan Good
The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.
– John Lone
The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.
– Ally Condie
The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.
– Sheryl Crow
The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.
– Mike Weir
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
– Audrey Hepburn
The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.
– Michel Gondry
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.
– Audrey Hepburn
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
– Audrey Hepburn
The beauty of a main title is that you establish your main theme and maybe a bit of your secondary theme. You plant the seed that you're going to go water later in the score. And so, having that removed just made it so much more difficult.
– Danny Elfman
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
– George H. Mead
The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don't know they are.
– Kathy Griffin
The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.
– Karolina Kurkova
The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.
– Conan O'Brien
The beauty of 'The Walking Dead' and the beauty of being on a television show for a while, is that, it's your backstory, it's part of what you are, it's what you carry with you every day.
– Laurie Holden
The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods.
– John Foster
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.
– Gordon Gee
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.
– Kevyn Aucoin
That's the beauty of music. You can take a theme from a Bach sacred chorale and improvise. It doesn't make any difference where the theme comes from the treatment of it can be jazz.
– Dave Brubeck
That's the beauty of being a comedian - it's the one job you're allowed to do that. We're lucky. We're really lucky.
– Colin Quinn
That's one of the nice things. I mean, part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million, I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you, that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.
– Donald Trump
That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
– Ken Thompson
Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.
– Beth Ditto
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
– Marguerite Gardiner
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.
– Rose Schneiderman
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
– Walter Pater
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
– Henry Drummond
Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.
– Brad Meltzer
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
– Martha Beck
Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.
– Kevyn Aucoin
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.
– Ani Difranco
Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.
– Karen Thompson Walker
Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings.
– Janelle Monae
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
– Thomas Mann
Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.
– Liv Tyler
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
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
– Rowan D. Williams
So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.
– Michael K. Powell
Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.
– Rashida Jones
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
– Saint Augustine
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty pageant. To my surprise, I won - and was sent to New York City to compete nationally.
– Donna Rice
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
– Groucho Marx
Shame, like beauty, is often in the eye of the beholder.
– Julie Burchill
Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.
– Bryant McGill
Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.
– Francesca da Rimini
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.
– Polykarp Kusch
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
– Oliver Goldsmith
Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty.
– John Philip Sousa
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
– David Byrne
Power and beauty come from a very deep place.
– Brooke Burke
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
– James Russell Lowell
Poetry a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
– Matthew Arnold
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.
– Edward Steichen