A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
Karl Kraus

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
Le Corbusier

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Brigitte Bardot

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.
Brigitte Bardot

But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
Don Van Vliet

I have this beautiful antique silver wine decanter that I bought at an auction. I always pour wine from that.
Paul Lynde

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.
Isadora Duncan

God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
Paul Dirac

Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.
Jackie Gleason

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
Pablo Casals

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
Nolan Ryan

I think Edith Evans is the most marvelous actress in the world and she can look beautiful. People who aren't beautiful can look beautiful. She can look as beautiful as Diana Cooper, who was the most beautiful woman in the world.
Vivien Leigh

I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.
Vivien Leigh

Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Familiar acts are beautiful through love.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.
Tom Petty

We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without loss of manliness.
Thucydides

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.
Erykah Badu

I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison.
Erykah Badu