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“I know I live a charmed, beautiful life and nobody wants to hear a celebrity whine. The last thing I want to do is complain; I love what I do and I know every job comes with a downside.”
Jennifer Garner (born 1972) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jennifer Garner interview: Still the girl next door". NJ.com. (August 12, 2012).
“There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.”
Joan Rivers (1933–2014) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in L.A. Times (10 May 1974), as reported in The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), p. 638
“Peace may sound simple — one beautiful word — but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.”
Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in U S Congress Congressional Record, V. 151, PT. 6, April 21, 2005 to May 5, 2005, Government Printing Office (2009), p. 7471
“Nigeria, it's a beautiful country with a great potential and I believe that in that part of the continent, Nigeria, once it sorts out its own problems, have a crucial role to play, like South Africa has in the more southern part of our continent.”
F. W. de Klerk (1936–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“... It was (in part) Gross’s excessive enthusiasm for string theory in the mid-80s that drove me (as an impressionable grad student at Princeton) away from theoretical physics (and into astronomy). String theory may have been a beautiful idea, but it made no predictions that could be tested experimentally in the then-foreseeable future. That’s not science.”
Stacy McGaugh (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like Odysseus, Keynes was a successful, not a tragic, hero. He heard the beautiful singing of the Sirens, but took precautions against being shipwrecked, keeping to the course for which his talents and the state of the world predestined him. Artfully, he strove for the best of all worlds, in his life and his work, and miraculously, came close to achieving it.”
Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky (1939–2026) said by 2026 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The beautiful thing is that anybody has the potential for a massive shift in perspective... even if they're a complete mess.”
Adyashanti (born 1962) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whereas the chemico-chemists always find in industry a beautiful field of gold-laden soil, the physico-chemists stand somewhat farther off, especially those who seek only the greatest dilution, for in general there is little to make with watery solutions.”
Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our beautiful planet is indeed worthy of our study; it was once our cradle—it will soon be our grave: between the dawn and the night of life, it is the scene of our busy action, and from it we shall rise to another state of being.”
Gideon Mantell (1790–1852) said by 1852 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“According to HARIVAMSA PARVA (2-59-37) part of mahabharat, When Krishna saw Goddess Rukmini before marriage with his yogic power. At that time Rukmini was 16 years old. She was of white complexion. Her eyes were long and beautiful. This meant that she was more than 16 years of age at the time of marriage.”
“It was in the kingdom of Vidarbha that Lakshmi Devi took birth as Rukmini during the incarnation of Shri Krishna. To Bhismaka, the King of Vidarbha, five sons beginning with Rukmi, were born. The sixth was a daughter who was named Rukmini. She grew up into a beautiful damsel.”
“Art is a weapon and the weapons can change the world. Good art is irreverent, excessive, controversial, incorrect, irritating, ironic, bad behaving, playful and beautiful or ugly.”
Riiko Sakkinen (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me it was also very special. It was so beautiful with all the children singing. I thought I would be nervous, but I was surprisingly calm. Think it will be like when you know what you want in life, then it is quiet.”
Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sita, stay here in my hermitage, you have found here your father's house in a foreign land, we will care for you as our daughter. Looking at Sita he thought :What a fair woman, how beautiful!”
Valmiki (active around 201 BC) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!”
Selena Gomez (born 1992) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twist magazine (2008), as cited in "11 inspirational Selena Gomez quotes the world needs in a year like 2016", Nick Grimshaw BBC Radio 1 (2016)
“There's no place as beautiful as West Point in the spring, summer and fall and no place as dismal as West Point in January and February. In fact, cadets commonly refer to this time of year at the Academy as "gloom period.”
Martin Dempsey (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gazing at those beautiful stars, Bailey realized that nothing mattered to them. All the achievements of humankind were insignificant. Love and hate, death and life, honor and dishonor, knowledge or ignorance—what did any of that matter in the face of this austere and heartless splendor?”
Pat Murphy (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The flowers inside your body are more beautiful than the flowers outside - full with fragrance and love. They are the sunshine and the medicine of your soul. Oh, the lost one come back to the source. You will be happier than ever before.”
Amit Ray (born 1960) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ray 114 Chakra System: Names Locations and Functions (2018)
“Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love, light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.”
“May Allah give us strength to make love, compassion, modernity, democracy, freedom, everything beautiful and everything Allah loves prevail in the world.”
Adnan Oktar (born 1956) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 20 April 2013.
“Freedom would bring about comfort and abundance. We should protect Jews, we should protect Christians and irreligious people as well. Let us create such a liberal, refreshing, beautiful environment. A very wealthy, sound understanding of religion would prevail in such an environment. Secularity is a system that exists in the essence of religion.”
Adnan Oktar (born 1956) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 21 June 2013.
“The most perfectly constructed object in nature, and also the most beautiful object in nature, is the human form as it approaches perfection. This, then, is the criterion of construction as it is of design. The study of its beauties is the veritable key to art...”
Ernest Flagg (1857–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the human form, as nature tries to make it, every feature is useful and every feature is beautiful. Each member is perfectly adapted to the function it has to perform; nothing is superfluous, yet the whole and every part is supremely decorative.”
Ernest Flagg (1857–1947) said by 1947 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous, and very unhappy.”
Brigitte Bardot (1934–2025) first seen 1984 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said in 1984, when interviewed on the occasion of her 50th birthday — as reported in Vocabulary Dictionary and Workbook (2006) by Mark Phillips, p. 17
“I have a few childhood nicknames. One is "Babygirl". My father gave that to me when I was born. He said, "I have a beautiful baby girl" and that one stuck with me. A lot of people still call me "Babygirl".”
Aaliyah (1979–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We should go and ask the princess for help. She seems very nice, and she’s much too beautiful to be unkind.”
Tanith Lee (1947–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not know why it distressed me so much to see an animal die when human death did not move me. Perhaps because they were more beautiful, and there is no corruption in them, while in the best of men there can always be found some guilt or wickedness which seems to have earned him death.”
Tanith Lee (1947–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I woke in the dawn. The plains of the Wilderness were exploding into light. It was the first hour of day, one of the two most beautiful hours of the desert, where sunrise and sunset are the queen and king.”
Tanith Lee (1947–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Though they were beautiful, so are fires and leopards.”
Tanith Lee (1947–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beautiful women, as experienced men know, Are but darkness wrapped in dazzling light aglow. A life of friv'lous youth and worried age, Its futile course to futile death will flow.”
Al-Mutanabbi (915–965) said by 965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beautiful military equipment don't rule the world, People rule the world. People.”
Mohammad Javad Zarif (born 1960) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview to CNN, January 7, 2020
“Prokofiev’s playing of lyrical music is especially noteworthy. His phrasing can be exquisitely beautiful in its dynamic molding (second theme of the Andante assaifrom Sonata No. 4; the middle section of Vision fugitive,op. 22, no. 11), and his polyphonic voicing can be clear and expressive (Sonatina pastorale, op. 59, no. 3).”
Boris Berman (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You see something faraway & it looks beautiful & very seductive; but as you go closer you realize it's actually bugs crawling over a corpse.”
Frances Bean Cobain (born 1992) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: December 6, 2014
“Even though Kurt died in the most horrific way possible, there is this mythology and romanticism that surrounds him, because he's 27 forever. The shelf life of an artist or musician isn't particularly long. Kurt has gotten to icon status because he will never age. He will always be that relevant in that time and always be beautiful.”
Frances Bean Cobain (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tristam stood and raised his glass. “May life be kind, and friends loyal. Ventures profitable, children plentiful, and age like a slow turning of the leaves in autumn; grand, beautiful and tranquil.”
Sean Russell (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love to see T-shirts or flags with Che Guevara, Diego [Maradona] and Argentina anywhere in the world. It gives me a beautiful feeling.”
Lionel Messi (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For a chicken the most beautiful is chicken.”
Jacek Tylicki (born 1951) first seen 1987 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Commentary on the 1987 project entitled "Chicken & Art", cited in: Leszek Brogowski. "Jacek Tylicki and the new ethos of Art," in Projekt Visual Art Magazine, nr. 202-203, 1995
“The most beautiful home on earth is just a dump compared to the magnificent mansion Jesus is building for you up in heaven.”
Jack T. Chick (1924–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life, like art, is purposeless and unpredictable. That’s what makes it beautiful and rare! In life, we are given the choice between three paths: utopia, illusion or nonsense. The funny thing is, none of us get the joke.”
Gianni A. Sarcone (born 1962) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ESOF (2010).
“This city is a completely female city. Female town. Beijing is male. All rough and politics. Shanghai is more delicate. Money talks. Beautiful. I had enough rough. I need details. Specially because (I am) a lady. I need city.”
Jin Xing (born 1967) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: SanSan Kwan, Kinesthetic City: Dance and Movement in Chinese Urban Spaces, 2013 p. xxx; Talking about Shanghai
“The human brain is evolution’s most magnificent disaster, a beautiful and glorious cesspool of brilliant analytical powers, infinite creativity, and pure madness.”
Guy P. Harrison (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Music is now quite another thing for me than it used to be. How blissful, how full of longing it sounds; it is indescribable ... I could wear myself out now at the piano, my heart is eased by the tones and what sympathy it offers! ... Oh, how beautiful music is; so often it is my consolation when I would like to cry.”
Clara Schumann (1819–1896) first seen 1838 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter from Clara Wieck to Robert Schumann (Aug 1838)
“'But never mind, all the best heroines are beautiful orphans, abandoned to their fate, and the one thing that's certain about my situation is that I'm going to be a heroine when I grow up.' Can I be a hero?' 'Well, I suppose you can try. But you'll have to try very hard.”
Susan Howatch (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'Acquiring carnal knowledge is like swimming in the sea ... The sea's so beautiful to look at, so wonderful to swim in, but you must never bathe unless it's safe. People so often drown in the sea and some coasts are so very dangerous, ... like the Coast of Gower.'”
Susan Howatch (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This country [landscape around Honfleur, where Bazille was painting with Monet, circa 1864] is paradise. Nowhere could you find more lush fields with more beautiful trees. Cows and horses roam freely everywhere.”
Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870) first seen 1864 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to his mother, c. 1864; as quoted in Frédéric Bazille and early Impressionism, Marandel, Daulte et al. p. 166
“Every person in order to respect himself has to see the world as beautiful or good or acceptable.”
Eli Siegel (1902–1978) said by 1978 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oh, If I had been able to realize you with my hand. If the painted canvas was able to give me your dear image. The labor was you ['The Unknown'] the work of art was me – I have kissed your head, I have looked elsewhere.. .You are neither good, nor charitable. You do not know how to love. – You are only great and beautiful. I sacrificed to tenderness and still, my self, you do not know how to love.”
Marianne von Werefkin (1860–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is impossible to explain the recent works of these 'savages' as a formal development and new interpretation of Impressionism.. .The most beautiful prismatic colors and the celebrated Cubism are now meaningless goals for these 'savages'.”
Franz Marc (1880–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A perfectly true thought, expressed in very sound terms, can satisfy the reason without giving any impression of the Beautiful; but in that case certainly there is something false in its statement. It is essential that Truth be in Glory. Splendor of style is not a luxury. It is a necessity.”
Léon Bloy (1846–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The idea that would enclose the Magisterium in a beautiful casket, detaching it from pastoral practice that might evolve according to circumstances, fashions and passions, is a form of heresy, a dangerous schizophrenic pathology. I therefore solemnly affirm that the Church of Africa will firmly oppose any rebellion against the teaching of Jesus and the Magisterium.”
Robert Sarah (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source