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“It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, "I am terribly sorry. I'm tired.”
Paul Newman (1925–2008) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Upon winning the 1986 Academy Award for Best Actor, (in The Color of Money), after having being nominated seven times; quoted in Tom O'Neil, "Gold Derby,", Los Angeles Times (3 September 2006)
“Never again to wiggle your toes. What a hell of a thing, what a wonderful, beautiful thing, to wiggle your toes.”
Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I must stop to lament, that we cannot evince an admiring gratitude towards other excellent things by a like readiness of quotation: that we cannot, for instance, quote a star that we have been watching; or a hue of sunset; or a friend's voice, and his shake of the hand (I had almost said heart); or a beautiful picture—a Claude or Titian, for example.”
Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The conception of life as constructive rather than antagonistic effort finds beautiful illustration in every approach that we make toward true civilization. You measure the quality and the value of the civilization of individuals or peoples, not by the houses which they live in or the clothes which they wear, but by the width and power of their sympathy.”
Charles Fletcher Dole (1845–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit’s yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes,— These things can never die.”
Sarah Doudney (1841–1926) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poem: Things that never die, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Why thus longing, thus forever sighing For the far-off, unattained, and dim, While the beautiful all round thee lying Offers up its low, perpetual hymn?”
Harriet Winslow Sewall (1819–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why thus longing?, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“How beautiful they are, The lordly ones Who dwell in the hills, In the hollow hills.”
William Sharp (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is a beautiful dream.”
William Sharp (writer) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cor Cordium, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!”
James Montgomery (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: James Montgomery
“The theory (propounded by Vedanta) [is] refined, abstruse, ingenious and beautiful.”
James Mackintosh (1765–1832) said by 1832 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted from Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture. New Delhi: Pragun Publication.
“Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.”
Louise Brooks (1906–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.jimcarrollsblog.com/blog/2021/4/28/louise-brooksnbspif-i-ever-bore-you-itll-be-with-a-knife
“All appeared new, and strange at first, inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful. I was a little stranger, which at my entrance into the world was saluted and surrounded with innumerable joys. My knowledge was Divine. I knew by intuition those things which since my Apostasy, I collected again by the highest reason.”
Thomas Traherne (1636–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At present I'm re-reading Traherne's Centuries of Meditations which I think almost the most beautiful book (in prose, I mean, excluding poets) in English.”
Thomas Traherne (1636–1674) said by 1674 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: C. S. Lewis, letter to Arthur Greeves in December 1941.
“The things we meet in life constitute the raw material from which we may build a larger life and a greater destiny Whatever you meet, be it pleasing or otherwise, remember it is raw material. You can take that material and turn it to excellent use in the creating of a stronger personality, a more brilliant mind and a more beautiful soul.”
Christian D. Larson (1874–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In my sleep, which is the song of the tombs, I have just seen her again, as beautiful as in her youth.”
Albert Cohen (1895–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lesson one: If you're ever in a beautiful cathedral, take your hat off!”
Ben Kowalewicz (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fingers feel the lines, they prod the space - your ageing face, The face that was once so beautiful, is still there but unrecognisable...”
Paul Weller (singer) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Private Hell, from Setting Sons (1979)
“The best-selling magazines to men are Playboy and Penthouse. These represent men’s primary fantasy: access to as many beautiful women as desired without risk of rejection. The best-selling magazines to women are Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle, representing the female primary fantasy: better homes and gardens and a family circle.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cosmopolitan is the best-selling magazine to single women. Cosmo tells single women how they can get a man to commit and achieve her primary fantasy of better homes and gardens. It’s the single female’s version of Playboy. Pornography is the male primary fantasy--access to as many beautiful women as desired without risk of rejection--at a price he can afford!”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“deprivation of the beautiful woman and sex with her until the man guarantees economic security in return; (...)”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[H]umans tend to start the process of change by acknowledging themselves—thus blacks asserted black pride and black is beautiful; women declared I am woman, I am strong ; men are saying I am man, I am okay. After a quarter of a century of male bashing, that’s not a bad start.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No legend told its children of beautiful princesses falling in love with conscientious objectors.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“However strong or beautiful this body may be, its culmination is in those three pounds of ashes. And still people are so attached to it. Glory be to God.”
Sarada Devi (1853–1920) said by 1920 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Not Jove or Nature, should they both agree To make a woman of the firmament, Of his mix'd purity could not invent A sky-born form so beautiful as she.”
Robert Greene (dramatist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.”
Aravind Adiga (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You fail, Death-Lord! You destroy the instrument, but not its music. With all your power you have gained only a broken shell." In that moment, when the harp had been silenced, arose the songs of birds, the chiming of brooks, the humming of wind through grass and leaves; and all these voices took up the strands of melody, more beautiful than before. And the Lord of Death fled in terror of life.”
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.”
George Linley (1797–1865) said by 1865 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thou art gone, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“To die is to become like a child, at last one knows nothing, nothing of death and nothing of life, only that all distances are equally long and all words unintelligible but beautiful. (p. 251)”
Stig Dagerman (1923–1954) said by 1954 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic, and the true, by whose light it surveys and shapes their opposites. It is an humane influence, softening with mirth the ragged inequalities of existence, promoting tolerant views of life, bridging over the spaces which separate the lofty from the lowly, the great from the humble.”
Edwin Percy Whipple (1819–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We did it by playing football. Pure, beautiful, inventive football.”
Jock Stein (1922–1985) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lisbon, 1967 (after winning the European Cup)
“The scene was more beautiful far to the eye Than if day in its pride had arrayed it.”
Paul Moon James (1780–1854) said by 1854 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Beacon, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“By the waters of Life we sat together, Hand in hand, in the golden days Of the beautiful early summer weather, When skies were purple and breath was praise.”
Thomas Noel (poet) first seen 1919 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An old Man’s Idyll, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Dating Julia Roberts had been too much for me. I had been constantly certain that she was going to break up with me. Why would she not? I was not enough; I could never be enough; I was broken, bent, unloveable. So instead of facing the inevitable agony of losing her, I broke up with the beautiful and brilliant Julia Roberts.”
Matthew Perry (1969–2023) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Matthew Perry on Dating Julia Roberts in the '90s: It 'Had Been Too Much for Me'". People. 24 October 2022
“Remember what things make you special and embrace those because there are so many things that aren’t on the outside that are so important and people find so beautiful.”
Miley Cyrus (born 1992) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Inquirer.net (November 20, 2008)
“It fascinates me to create beautiful paintings with the simplest means.”
James Rosenquist (1933–2017) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On refusing to mesh his work with technology or the Internet; quoted in Brian Sherwin, "Art Space Talk: James Rosenquist," preschoolprepco.com (2008-04-04)
“You touch her skin And then you think That she is beautiful But she don't mean a thing to me”
Ben Gibbard (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Women are beautiful in the light of the day, but are even more so in the shadows of the night.”
Andrzej Majewski (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has become this really beautiful network of people, both professional and amateur, that just come together to have a good time depending on what city we're in.”
Brian Viglione (born 1979) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: October 2005 - Recoil Interview
“I don’t consider my own clothing to be outrageous... The truth is that people just don’t have the same references that I do. To me it’s very beautiful and it’s art, and to them it’s outrageous and crazy.”
“I'm beautiful in my way 'cause god makes no mistakes. I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way. Don't hide yourself in regret, Just love yourself and you're set. I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way.”
“These universal means of expression were discovered in modern painting by a logical and gradual progress toward ever more abstract form and color. Once the solution was discovered, there followed the exact representation of relations alone, that is to say, of the essential and fundamental element in any plastic emotion of the beautiful.”
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) said by 1944 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Paris, as modern city] is beautiful in its perfection, but perfection means death and decay. Thus interfering with the process of dying is a crime against perfection: it stands in the way of a higher perfection.”
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote of Mondrian in 'Natuurlijke en abstracte realiteit', Piet Mondriaan, in 'De Stijl' III, 1920, p. 75
“It may be noted that in Neo-Plastic art the crucial thing is the right angel, that is, the right-angle lines. And not whether the position of the lines is vertical or horizontal.. .So it is possible to make very beautiful things while placing the lines in a diagonal position.”
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) first seen 1927 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In 'Neo-Plasticism: Home – Street – City', Piet Mondriaan, 'i 10', Jan. 1927
“The spiraling shapes, and the beautiful contrasts of yellow and blue, that are intuitively felt one evening while living the movements of a girl dancing may be found again later, through a process of plastic preferences or aversions, or through combination of both, in the concentric circling of an aeroplane or in the onrush of an express train”
Gino Severini (1883–1966) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 'The Plastic Analogies of Dynamism', c. 1914; as quoted in Inventing Futurism: The Art and Politics of Artificial Optimism, by Christine Poggi, Princeton University Press, 2009, p. 218
“I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it's important to embrace it and get down! The female body is something that's so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not dis other women for being proud of theirs!”
Christina Aguilera (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm really happy when I meet a beautiful girl with whom I can have a good conversation. And I can feel attracted to her after a while, but that's not love! It takes time to develop an intense feeling like love. When you start a relationship with someone, it means you have to work hard. Love is a gift that needs to be looked after and cared for.”
Daniel Radcliffe (born 1989) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Bravo Magazine 2007
“The one piece of advice I would give to any actor is, if you want to go out on the street without being recognised, without even being looked at, go out with a 6ft 8in beautiful transsexual. No one gives you a second glance. Especially when you're 5ft 5in.”
Daniel Radcliffe (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is something beautiful about virtue, Captain. But I am just a poor guy.”
Georg Büchner (1813–1837) said by 1837 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By making this chair five times as expensive, three times heavier, half as comfortable, and only a fraction as beautiful, an architect can make a good name for himself.”
Poul Henningsen (1894–1967) said by 1967 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: cited in: Eric Reiss (2012), Usable Usability: Simple Steps for Making Stuff Better, p. 17: About the iconic chair from Thonet.
“Nowhere on earth does the rose of happiness blossom without thorns; but what bursts forth out of these thorns is everywhere and in various guises the transient, yet beautiful rose of man's joy in living.”
Johann Gottfried Herder (1744–1803) said by 1803 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind, Bk. 8, Ch. 5; as quoted in Johann Gottfried Herder: Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings (2004), edited and translated by Ioannis D. Evrigenis …