I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes. Peggy Fleming on beauty
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. Serge Gainsbourg on beauty
I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from the beauty of looks and figure, which I cannot claim to have, there's just a particular kind of ordinary-Joe quality that a film star needs to have. Stephen Fry on beauty
Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory. Halle Berry on beauty
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. St. Jerome on beauty
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. Camille Paglia on beauty
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 on beauty
Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman. Camille Paglia on beauty
It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people. Anthony Kiedis on beauty
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? Jean Kerr on beauty
Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall. Ani DiFranco on beauty
A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. Xenophon on beauty
I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty. Shirley MacLaine on beauty
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. George Bancroft on beauty
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty? Sarah Bernhardt on beauty
The pain passes, but the beauty remains. Auguste Renoir on beauty
I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect - they are much more interesting. Marc Jacobs on beauty
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 on beauty
But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. Lascelles Abercrombie on beauty
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 on beauty