As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
— Carl Van Vechten
I'm not bad-looking, but I'm not a beauty, either.
— Carine Roitfeld
Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it's rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you're just renting for a while.
— Candice Bergen
I feel like people are like, 'Ooh, French beauty, they don't do anything.' But I think it's more about looking as natural as possible.
— Camille Rowe
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
— Camille Paglia
For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
— Cameron Russell
After 'Freaks and Geeks,' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek,' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.
— Busy Philipps
Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.
— Bryant H. McGill
The Cyrillic and Greek scripts in particular have an alien beauty in their unfamiliar letterforms. Five weights of stroke thickness create subtle variations in light and dark that reflect the emerging and fading of the stars.
— Bruno Maag
I have always loved Reese Witherspoon and Amy Adams as role models - I read all their interviews and agree with the fundamentals of how they manage the limelight and also how they look and carry themselves. A huge part of beauty is how you carry yourself and how you deal with certain situations.
— Brittany Snow
I have no arguments to defend how brutal and disturbing a ritual the corrida is. Like all tragedies, no matter the beauty created, there are no happy endings. If it is indeed an art form, bullfighting is the most disturbing I have ever witnessed.
— Brin-Jonathan Butler
We love wine, and as with both Birdiebee and the beauty line, we consider these passion projects. When the right partners came to us for each of them, we knew the time was right.
— Brie Bella
It's nice to stand out and not have to conform to all the beauty standards that just don't even make sense anymore.
— Bria Vinaite
I still find new things every night, which is the beauty and fun of live theater. It's a living, breathing art form.
— Brandon Uranowitz
Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.
— Brad Meltzer
The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.
— Boris Johnson
Personalized beauty is about each woman being able to create her own makeup routine that complements her coloring and style.
— Bobbi Brown
I think that something needs to be weird in order to have a real beauty.
I think beauty can be everywhere.
People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
I think French women are incredibly comfortable in their skin, whereas in the States people are striving more for one beauty ideal.
The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.
When I first heard that they were going to make 'Beauty and the Beast' at Disney, I was like, 'Oh, God, there's no way I'm going to see that movie,' because I knew what that movie was, was just two people sitting down to dinner over and over and over again. But then when I went to see it, it was like, 'Oh, they made it work.'
— Byron Howard
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
— Buddy Holly
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
I hate the term 'arm candy.' But, look, a woman's figure is a beautiful thing, and if she has shapely legs, then she should show them off, because men love to see that. Not just heterosexual men - gay men like to see a woman in her beauty and the shape of her.
— Bruce Forsyth
Both for Havana's beauty and decay, it's very hard to restrain yourself from staring everywhere you look.
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
— Brigitte Bardot
I think the problem is when people hear 'arts education,' they think, 'I don't want my son to be some painter that's going to be hanging in some museum after he dies. I don't want my daughter to be a struggling artist making no money.' People don't realize it's more than that. It's beautiful. It brings beauty to our lives.
— Brian Stokes Mitchell
I would say that is the beauty of Adult Swim is that they're always pushing forward from what they've done in the past, and they're always just trying different styles.
— Brett Gelman
I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really had technical skills, but I've always felt like I appreciate really beautiful things, and part of taking a good photograph is being able to recognize beauty.
— Brandon Stanton
You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
— Boris Pasternak
Oakland has always had artists attempting to define the immense beauty and ridiculousness around them.
— Boots Riley
Spend a day around my players, around my African-American players, my Hispanic players, my Polynesian players, and you'll see the true beauty of who they are.
— Bob Stoops
I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.
I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
— Candice Swanepoel
Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman.
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
The beauty of Hawaii probably surpasses other places. I like the Big Island and the two mountains, Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, where you can look out at the stars.
— Buzz Aldrin
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.
— Buddha
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
— Bryan Procter
Power and beauty come from a very deep place.
— Brooke Burke
I think the beauty and mystery of boxing is just the immediacy of how it reveals people unlike anything else.
In my personal opinion, you miss out on the beauty of the moment if you go in planning what the moment is. It's like having a vacation too jam-packed with activities. You miss all of the sunsets.
— Brie Larson
You go into the Lions camp with preconceived ideas about players and teams and then find guys are actually very different, and the beauty of the Lions is that all those characters are moulded into it. I find that exciting.
— Brian O'Driscoll
That's the beauty of living in New York City is that a good chunk of the media is here and willing to drink with you.
— Bre Pettis
You know you are an artist if you appreciate beauty.
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
I never in a million years thought I would be the person to go to for self-esteem; that was not my intent. But I happen to love beauty, I love the way people look, and I love making women look beautiful.
