Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.

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.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

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

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

I like to feel blonde all over.

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man’s inability to sit still in a room.

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

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

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

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar… Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Girls are soft and pretty.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

It’s not just human nature to associate in tribes. It’s deeper than that.

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?

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

My skin is 24 karat gold when a sun hit it.