The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

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.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

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.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

I like to feel blonde all over.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

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

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

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

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

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.

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.

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

The atomic bomb certainly is the most powerful of all weapons, but it is conclusively powerful and effective only in the hands of the nation which controls the sky.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

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

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

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

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn’t ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

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

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.

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

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

I put cocoa butter all over my face and my iconic belly and my arms and legs. Why live rough? Live smooth.

Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

I have two main hair people I work with. They’re always with me. I’m like, ‚I’m bored! I wanna change my hair!‘ That’s the good thing about a weave. You can do whatever with it.

Men always want and love when women wear tight and fitted clothing, right? And you’re like, ‚Wow, she looks so beautiful.‘ And then you have men who dress like slobs, and you’re like, ‚What’s the deal with these big and baggy suits.‘ It’s pretty ridiculous.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.