I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

My fans kept asking where they could get clothes like ‚Destiny’s Child’s‘, so it was only natural for us to do a clothing line. I was adamant about not putting my name on something that I didn’t love.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Clothing & fashion are kind of my security blanket, almost.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

But to me nothing – the negative, the empty – is exceedingly powerful.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Dissents speak to a future age.

More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I’m not trying to be fashionable. Never was!

Nature is wont to hide herself.

No other planet in the solar system is a suitable home for human beings; it’s this world or nothing. That’s a very powerful perception.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

I don’t think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.

My lips, I’ve used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.

I’m constantly trying to find new ways to get my hair out of my face.

I don’t care about age. Nor do I care about those who do not accept the science. I don’t have as much experience, and therefore I listen more. But I also have the right to express my opinion, no matter my age.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

If you saw Queen Elizabeth it would be amazing, she came from another planet. She was so attractive in what she was wearing.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

I don’t want people to think of me as sexy.

I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

I don’t think the Christian Right dominates America in the way some in the media believe they do.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.