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.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

I don’t like perfumes that are too strong or sweet. I like a fragrance that is earthy and sensual and can be worn at any time.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

I wear make-up, and it gets a little bit thicker every year.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

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

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

The glamour of it all! New York! America!

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Young people can create beautiful things.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

There’s my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

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

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

I like to feel blonde all over.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

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.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.