Great Quotes

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

~ Saint Augustine

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

~ Émile Zola

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

~ Victor Hugo

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

~ Petrarch

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty.

~ Hu Shih

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

~ Barbara Corcoran

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

~ Richard Dawkins

The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.

~ Dan Gilroy

I am more interested in revolutionary beauty than in the great beauty, to be honest. Italian cinema is now mostly a bureau for tourism. We have given up that revolution of the contemporary.

~ Luca Guadagnino

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

~ Richard Dawkins

I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.

~ Walter Dean Myers

In Japan, the people preserve their temples for their exquisite beauty, and there are a great many sincere Buddhists; but China is irreligious: a nation of atheists or agnostics, or slaves of impious superstitions. In an extended tramp among temples, I have not seen a single male worshiper or a thing to please the eye.

~ Isabella Bird

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

~ Christian Nestell Bovee

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

~ Mark Gatiss

Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.

~ Joyce Giraud

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.

~ Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

~ Jerry Stiller

I heard that people were really interested in the new haircut, which I think is so funny. Great haircut, I really like it. It goes great with the time period. And I was super, super, super-happy to have my bangs swept to the side rather than straight in front of me, which I dealt with for three seasons. I'm very, very much done with that.

~ Elisabeth Moss

My kind of wanting to be funny didn't come from need, necessarily. The closest I can analyze it is that it was an easy way to make friends, I found out. It was just a great kind of social tool.

~ Will Ferrell

It's funny how the ruthless, murderous gangster has really been romanticized by the media. I mean, I grew up watching the 'Godfathers' and 'Scarface,' and they were the coolest. They're just really interesting stories with great characters. They're rock stars.

~ Elena Satine

Latinos, Asians, African-Americans, women - we're all trying to find our place in this world of cinema and television and theater. And the great thing with comedy is that most of the time, you could be orange. It doesn't matter, as long you're funny.

~ Sandra Bullock

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

~ Robert Benchley

It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general, but I've had a great opportunity to meet a lot of them, and maybe it's just because they don't behave that way around me, but I rarely see that kind of abuse of power.

~ Ryan Reynolds

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

~ Florenz Ziegfeld

I auditioned for a movie recently, and when I went in, the producer said he'd told one of its stars, Naomi Watts, that he was auditioning me, and she'd said, 'She's so funny; she's a great actress - you should hire her.' What a lovely, kind, and supportive thing to do for another woman.

~ Isla Fisher

Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

~ Chevy Chase

I get called 'the girl off the dancing horse.' I just laugh; I think it's really funny. It's true, isn't it? It's great we're getting that recognition.

~ Charlotte Dujardin

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

~ Harold Ramis

They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.

~ Laura Bush

It's really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, 'I usually don't like female comedians, but your material is great!' It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know?

~ Chelsea Peretti

It's funny because I remember when I came to the U.S. with 'Swimming Pool,' the movie did well, and it was great box office for a French movie, but I remember I was a bit upset because all people talked to me about was the nudity.

~ Ludivine Sagnier

I think it's great when dramatic actors do lighter, funny roles.

~ Noureen Dewulf

My experience of great storytelling, working with classics, is just finding a way to present it simply but let the story do its own work, or be an invite to the audience's imagination.

~ Kenneth Branagh

If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.

~ Jason Statham

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

My inspiration comes from so many things, it is hard to give credit to one. I find music of all kinds to be a great inspiration. A melody or a lyric can fire my imagination. Exercise is another. Endorphins fuel my thoughts - I tend to work out scenes and dialogue when I am exercising. Reading is also a great inspiration.

~ Julia London

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

~ Will Self

It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.

~ Peter Ackroyd

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

~ Wayne Dyer

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

~ Salman Rushdie