I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.
— John McAfee
People like Dick Gregory, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone show me what the definition of an artist is - it isn't just to make art but to speak truth to what's happening, speak beauty into the world, speak love into the world and also... get involved.
— John Legend
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
— John Keats
That's the beauty of art: art is universal.
— John Kani
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
— John Erskine
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
— John Dryden
I think love and beauty are what life is all about.
— John Derek
There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.
— John Clayton
Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.
— John C. Maxwell
The beauty of the innovation that flows from the open web is that no one has to ask for permission, get a credential, or win a Disrupt or Launch award to go prove their idea is worthy. They just... put up a page on the web, iterate, iterate, iterate... and eventually, a Facebook emerges.
— John Battelle
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!
— Joel McHale
You can't stand at the Bellagio and watch these seven story fountains and not go, 'That's something of extraordinary man-made beauty.'
— Joe Carnahan
I feel truth, beauty, love, grief, anger, intimacy & alive in my body... Women in the global south live in their bodies much more than we in the global north. Not as distracted by patriarchy's controlling images - They know power is in their bodies. I am deeply grateful for the women who showed me the way home.
— Jodie Evans
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
— Joanne Woodward
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
— John Masefield
When I was a freshman in high school, I read a book about the making of Disney's 'Sleeping Beauty' called 'The Art of Animation.' It was this weird revelation for me, because I hadn't considered that people actually get paid to make cartoons.
— John Lasseter
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.
— John Hurt
He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
— John Galsworthy
A woman wants to be romanced. She wants to be an essential part of a great adventure; she wants a beauty to unveil. That is what little girls play at, and those are the movies women love and the stories that they love.
— John Eldredge
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
— John Donne
In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.
— John Cornforth
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
— John Cheever
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
— John Burroughs
We all know the future is mobile, right? And the iPhone and iPad are Perfect Expressions of Beauty, Ideal Combinations of Form and Function. Except they're Not.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
My mother loved fashion. She was a beauty and had enough sewing skills that she could re-create the looks in magazines. She also was enormously charismatic.
— Joel Grey
There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!
— Jody Watley
When I was a freshman, I was 5 feet 9 and totally skinny as a pole. Knock-knees and bad hair. Then, over that summer, I grew up a little bit. Not that I was some super beauty, but at least I didn't look like I was 10 anymore and had a little self-confidence.
— Jodi Lyn O'Keefe
Oh, I'm not beautiful. I can look beautiful; I can put beauty on. When I'm tired, I look bloody awful. I think I'm turning into the actress from 'Dynasty,' Linda Evans.
— Joanna Lumley
The beauty of it is when you can just show up and hit the notes.
— John Lone
I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.'
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.
— John Henrik Clarke
The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods.
— John Foster
Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men's movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.
— John Constable
I think if my father was a truck driver, I would have wanted to share the beauty that was there. He just happens to be Johnny Cash.
— John Carter Cash
Sometimes, though only in my most unguarded moments, I can still think of Annette Winters as my first love. At fifteen, she was tall, slender, very dark: an intelligent, sly girl possessed of what I think of now, though I didn't think of then, as a kind of debatable beauty.
— John Burnside
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
I'm drawn to stuff with a certain darkness, and darkness with beauty within it.
— Johan Renck
We know the beauty of football is that you get another chance next year.
— Joe Hart
In a weird way, that's the beauty of being an actor. You get to live out things that you're afraid of, and you get to say, 'Well, maybe I can get to the end of it and survive it intact and I can be the hero of my own story.' It's kind of a way of exorcising fear.
— Jodie Foster
Physical beauty is such a strange thing.
— Jock Sturges
