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“Marcia: I appreciated the simplicity and when you just stand there and people hear your voice it's beautiful.”
Hayley Jensen (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dicko: You looked beautiful and I enjoyed that. I didn’t think that you over thought that at all.”
Hayley Jensen (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mark: I would say that you are the nuclear power puff girl, you are indestructible. You've asked for positive assistance in guidance and what I'd say is when you're phrasing things you don’t need to end each line the same way, it's about what you don’t do rather than what you do do... And you do look beautiful.”
Hayley Jensen (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“George: Gracie, those are beautiful flowers. Where did they come from? Gracie: Don't you remember, George? You said that if I went to visit Clara Bagley in the hospital I should be sure to take her flowers. So, when she wasn't looking, I did.”
Gracie Allen (1895–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Comedic routine, quoted in American Radio Networks : A History (2009) by Jim Cox, p. 144
“As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself…. Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will see Truth.”
Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) said by 1902 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hate dreaming. Because when you wanna sleep, you wanna sleep. Dreaming is work, you know? Like, there I am, laying in my comfortable bed in my hotel room. It’s beautiful. Next thing you know, I have to build a go-kart with my ex-landlord.”
Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We separate. We oppose. We dramatize. We exaggerate. We add colors. We make it beautiful. We make it ugly. We separate.”
“For many years I had been hearing the comment that fractals make beautiful pictures, but are pretty useless. I was irritated because important applications always take some time to be revealed. For fractals, it turned out that we didn't have to wait very long. In pure science, fads come and go. To influence basic big-budget industry takes longer, but hopefully also lasts longer.”
Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a pretty structure isn’t it? It makes you think of something solid, stable, well-linked. In fact it happens also in chemistry as in architecture that “beautiful” edifices, that is, symmetrical and simple, are also the most sturdy: in short, the same thing happens with molecules as with the cupolas of cathedrals of the arches of bridges.”
Primo Levi (1919–1987) said by 1987 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.”
Diane Ackerman (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“His early papers are paralyzingly beautiful but they are thoroughly corrupt with errors, and this has delayed the publication of his collected works for almost ten years. A man whose errors can take that long to correct is quite a man.”
Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Memorial lecture delivered on 13 December 1965 at UNESCO headquarters to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Albert Einstein's death, as quoted in Silvan S. Schweber, Einstein and Oppenheimer: The Meaning of Genius (Ca…
“Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.”
Robert Oppenheimer (1904–1967) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Last published words With Oppenheimer on an Autumn Day, Look, Vol. 30, No. 26 (19 December 1966)
“Have you ever been experienced? Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful.”
Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Eight inches strong, it is my favourite thing; If I'm alone at night, I embrace it fully - A beautiful woman hasn't touched it for ages. Within my fundoshi there is an entire universe!”
Ikkyū (1394–1481) said by 1481 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Man's Root" as quoted in Mishima's Sword : Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend (2007) by Christopher Ross, p. 195.
“What a beautiful step! I shall never be able to do it.”
Margot Fonteyn (1919–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Encyclopedia of World Biography (1998) edited by Paula Kay Byers and Suzanne Michele Bourgoin, Vol. Hox-Kie, p. 504
“i pray inside of me that one day you can be forgiven: For murdering the beautiful world in we used to live in”
Immortal Technique (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The waitress took a bar rag, and she wiped it across her eyes. And as she spoke her voice came out as something like a sigh. She said "I wish that I was beautiful, or that you were halfway blind. And I wish I weren't so dog-gone fat, I wish that you were mine. And I wish that you'd come with me, when I leave for home. For we both know all about loneliness, and livin' all alone.”
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sound was essentially background sound, myself, and Carl, Dennis and Al Jardine, Mike was our lead singer. The four of us put our voices together. We had done it really beautifully. We had a beautiful blend. We really did.”
Brian Wilson (1942–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This next song is only dedicated to beautiful people here tonight. That means all of you. Thank you for coming along... and making this a great occasion.”
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Source: Live Aid, 1985/07/13 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A22oy8dFjqc?t=12m5s
“People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and say "I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.”
Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Look, I understand that for a lot of people, the US is superior to their country of residence in myriad ways, but I'm Australian. We have it all: the weather, the beautiful cities, the brand of football that involves neither padding yourself up like Santa Claus nor standing in a line in front of goal and covering your testicles.”
Max Barry (born 1973) first seen 1038 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Great Writing interviewhttp://www.greatwriting.co.uk/content/view/1038/
“The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same difference between a beautiful and a plain woman — a matter of millimetres.”
Ian Fleming (1908–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”
Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My wife is a beautiful girl. To hear her describe herself, it sounds like "The Bearded Goat Woman from Hell". If she looked like that, I'd never let her out of the house! I'd chain her up in the backyard, charge 5 bucks for people to look at her. "Alright, now this is some scary shit. I mean it, stand back!" [mimes opening a gate, makes deformed faces and mimes closing the gate] That is my wife!”
Jeff Foxworthy (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the mystery and wisdom of the Masters, when it’s out in the daylight, doesn’t amount to so much, you know. Tricks of the trade—wonderful illusions. But people don’t want to know that. They want the illusions, the mysteries. Who can blame them? There’s so little in life that’s beautiful or worthy.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way 'trivial' mathematics. However ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves, there is something essential lacking. Chess problems are unimportant. The best mathematics is serious as well as beautiful – important if you like, but the word is very ambiguous, and 'serious' expresses what I mean much better.”
G. H. Hardy (1877–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you've got everybody collaborating on a mass scale; you can't be stopped. You can do anything, man. You can move mountains. If all the kids in this estate were a piecing, can you imagine what a beautiful place it would be?”
“You are a beautiful person, Doctor. Clearheaded. Strong. But you seem always to be dragging your heart along the ground. From now on, little by little, you must prepare yourself to face death. If you devote all of your future energy to living, you will not be able to die well. You must begin to shift gears, a little at a time. Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.”
Haruki Murakami (born 1949) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thailand", from After the Quake (1999)
“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.”
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931–2015) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Arvind Gupta, Mukul Chaturvedi, Akshay Joshi (2004) Security and Diplomacy: Essential Documents. p. 144.
“He once cut one of my nightmares out of paper. I thought it was beautiful, I put it on a record cover.”
Conor Oberst (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Cause a costume can be comfortable It can make you feel more beautiful It can even make you look like someone else But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.”
Conor Oberst (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that my wife is the most beautiful woman in the world.”
Shahrukh Khan (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“More beautiful and soft than any moth With burring furred antennae feeling its huge path Through dusk, the air-liner with shut-off engines Glides over suburbs and the sleeves set trailing tall To point the wind. Gently, broadly, she falls, Scarcely disturbing charted currents of air.”
Stephen Spender (1909–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You wonder about her crime. She was condemned to death for stealing clothes from her employer, from the wife of her employer. She wished to make herself more beautiful. This desire in servants was not legal.”
Margaret Atwood (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He wants only the simple things: a chair, someone to pull off his shoes, someone to watch him while he talks, with admiration and fear, gratitude if possible, someone in whom to plunge himself for rest and renewal. These things can best be had by marrying a woman who has been condemned to death by other men for wishing to be beautiful. There is a wide choice.”
Margaret Atwood (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.”
Margaret Atwood (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: blogs.legacyrecordings.com (February 5, 2008)
“The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: news.bostonherald.com (March 12, 2008)
“The most beautiful things in this country have the flavor of other places. Chinese food. Pizza came from the Italians, but it's an American experience. French fries. There's always some other cultures involved. You don't have to be a hyphenated American, but you can certainly be an American who doesn't forget where they came from.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: quoted in commentary on www.orlandosentinel.com (July 6, 2007)
“I'm signed to release the third book in the series. When they invited me to do the Noelle book I had started on an autobiography, sort of, because I still get a lot of questions about that. I done so much music in my life, and writing is a beautiful outlet to continue to grow.”
Gloria Estefan (born 1957) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reuters (November 17, 2006)
“We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.”
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Marilyn (1973), Ch. 1
“The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.”
Norman Mailer (1923–2007) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Joe DiMaggio's marriage to Marilyn Monroe, in Marilyn (1973)
“You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face And show the world all the love in your heart The people gonna treat you better, You're gonna find, yes you will, That you're beautiful as you feel.”
Carole King (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That’s the words: "So I’m back to the velvet underground"—which is a clothing store in downtown San Francisco, where Janis Joplin got her clothes, and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, it was this little hole in the wall, amazing, beautiful stuff—”back to the floor that I love, to a room with some lace and paper flowers, back to the gypsy that I was.”
Stevie Nicks (born 1948) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: (on the inspiration for "Gypsy") Leah Greenblatt, "Stevie Nicks On Her Favorite Songs: A Music Mix Exclusive", Entertainment Weekly, 31 March 2009
“Now since in so many Things they... agree, what can be more probable than that in others they agree too; and that the other Planets are as beautiful and as well stock'd with Inhabitants as the Earth? Or what shadow of Reason can there be why they should not?”
Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695) said by 1695 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life. Life is — the way God has given it to me was just a platter — a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.”
Johnny Cash (1932–2003) said by 2003 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The beautiful thing that Michael discovered-- and I don't know at what point it was; maybe it was the second year [of Seinfeld]: he was playing Kramer a little slower than the other three characters, a little dumber. And then, he got the idea that he should play it that everyone else is dumber than him. And that was the key to it. Once he got that: then, the character just took off!”
Jerry Seinfeld (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That's one of-- a beautiful thing about having kids, is you reproduce people that you can relate to.”
Jerry Seinfeld (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is not belittling it, because I do think it's a very emotionally and intellectually complicated physical performance, and it's the combination of those things that made it a little unusual, I suppose. But I definitely rate The Insider and A Beautiful Mind above that. I probably rate Romper Stomper above it. And there's a hell of a lot of nuance going on in L.A. Confidential as well.”
Russell Crowe (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source