Top 100 A Pretty Quotes
#1. She was a pretty girl, with a pointed face and blue-black hair. But she was an untidy, a dusty sort of girl, and you felt that in a few years something might go wrong; she might get swollen ankles or grow a mustache.
Mavis Gallant
#2. A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
Thomas Moore
#3. I think that I'm a pretty great producer, but the vision behind Batman is Chris Nolan. I'm there to do my best to help execute that vision, and I think I do a really good job, but the vision is Chris Nolan.
Charles Roven
#4. Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.
David Hockney
#5. You're a very pretty girl ... Did you know? Once upon a time, I had a pretty, pretty boy.' She reached forward and touched my cheek with one manicured hand.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#6. L.A.'s a pretty, warm, easy, breezy place. You can sunbathe, get a Mai Tai, and wake up five months later. And it's still sunny. And they're still serving Mai Tais.
Chris Pine
#7. It's not a pretty world, Papa.'
'I've noticed,' my father said softly.
Chaim Potok
#8. You can't make a frog richer who already have a great sun and have a pretty lake with green leaves, insects and flowers! He is already the richest of the richest!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#9. When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
John Ruskin
#10. This is really a pretty good system you have here. What do you call it? "Due process". We're very proud of it.
Alex Kozinski
#11. I'm a pretty loyal guy with friends and family, I've had the same friends for a long time.
Matthew McConaughey
#12. I'm a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys - movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.
LeBron James
#13. A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray.
Alan Sherman
#14. I just wrapped this movie called 'The Wedding Crashers' which was a pretty big break for me.
Bradley Cooper
#16. In his experience, motives were simple. There was greed, there was jealousy, he'd seen plenty of revenge played out in gang-related crimes, there was even sadism, and sometimes there was flat-out stupidity, which was a pretty powerful motivator in itself.
Jonathan L. Howard
#17. We've always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways ... It's lasted now about 14 years, and we're very pleased to have survived it.
Richard Branson
#18. It's still a pretty sexist world out there and someone's got to stand up and say something.
Eliza Dushku
#19. There are times in your life when you feel like the dumbest man on the planet and you're insecure about something, and then there are times where you feel like, "Hey, I'm a pretty smart guy and I'm pulling it together ... "
Charlie Day
#20. Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.
Cheryl Strayed
#21. You have to be highly intelligent to get away with a dumb joke. That takes a pretty smart fella.
Tracy Morgan
#22. It's got to be a pretty boring life, hasn't it, being a hat?
J.K. Rowling
#24. The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil.
John Steinbeck
#25. Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.
Noam Chomsky
#26. I came from a pretty accepting community, and my school had a lot of openly gay and LGBT-plus people. When I joined YouTube, I saw a lot more hostility than I saw in my everyday life.
Tyler Oakley
#27. An' things ha' come to a pretty pass, ye ken, if people are going to leave stuff like that aroound where innocent people could accidentally smash the door doon and lever the bars aside and take the big chain off'f the cupboard and pick the lock and drink it!
Terry Pratchett
#29. Is food a substitute for love? No, love is a substitute for food. And a pretty poor substitute at that.
Rohan Candappa
#30. It might have driven me mad; but I was always a pretty stubborn one, so I just held on and bided my time.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#31. The last thing I wanted was to look down at the stranded face of my teenager. A pretty girl. Her whole death was now ahead of her.
Markus Zusak
#32. Measuring someone is borderline invasive. You have to touch them and record their physical presence in the world. It's a pretty specific way to understand someone.
Susan Juby
#33. For me to do a project - I have a pretty successful solo career, so - for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward.
Les Claypool
#34. At the end of the day, flirting is a pretty universal language. Americans are more direct. British people are more indirect about everything
Rachel Weisz
#35. Freedom is a delicate flower, like a pretty leaf in the air: It's hard to catch and may not be what you thought when you get it, she observed quietly.- Polly from Copper Sun
Sharon M. Draper
#36. Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.
Daniel Okrent
#37. I've written books for awhile, but always on a pretty small scale and always pretty self-indulgent. I chose projects that I thought would be really fun to work on and found friends to work on them with me, and it was all about the process.
Chelsea Cain
#38. No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace.
Andy Samberg
#39. The thing is I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. It's just a pretty cool thing.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#40. [Bill] Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.
Michael Moore
#41. As a Western, 'The Magnificent Seven' was a pretty good film. I don't think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as 'Seven Samurai.'
George Lucas
#42. I have a pretty normal office day. I get to work at 10 in the morning and leave at eight or nine.
Pedro Winter
#43. No, he had to remember she was an assassin with the blessing of a pretty face and sharp wits. She washed her hands with blood, and was just as likely to slit his throat as offer him a kind word.
Sarah J. Maas
#44. Even when things don't go very well, even when life is hard, it still tends to be a pretty wonderful thing to be alive.
Daniel M. Haybron
#45. I sometimes get in the car [and] jump all around hunting for a sample, and then I can get really annoying if anyone's in the car with me. But if I'm actually listening to music, I have a pretty solid attention span.
Girl Talk
#46. Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.
Oliver North
#47. The sight of a pretty woman had an airborne chemical effect, like nerve gas. It relaxed the rubber band around his wallet.
A.J. Liebling
#48. I'd like to keep my pretty face intact." The bouncer chortled. "And you do have a pretty face.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#49. Had I known you were going to pull a pretty ribbon out of your sleeve like some two-bit magician, tie me up with it, and indulge your mental torture fetish in your basement, I would've shot you. Many times."
"Two-bit magician?"
"Men like you enjoy being flattered.
Ilona Andrews
#50. O Josephine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not all askew. You have the air of a pretty face upon which some one has sat down by mistake.
Victor Hugo
#51. I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.
Michael McKean
#52. I'm afraid that what most people don't know about me is that I'm very close to my brother and sister, who are 16 and 13, and I think I'm a pretty good big sister to them.
Naomie Harris
#53. The sun is a pretty stubborn guy, and he'll rise each day just to spite you.
Karen White
#54. You can't be the perfect member of Congress and the perfect mother 100 percent of the time. And probably, you'd be a pretty annoying person if you were.
Linda Sanchez
#55. Poor old Rhett," Sawyer mumbled.
"What about Rhett?"
"I just feel sorry for him if he does come to Burnt Boot. He won't have a pretty little redhead to watch his back.
Carolyn Brown
#56. I read to learn, tech myself stuff and teach myself math and do complex formulas, and it's very, very tough, but I enjoy doing that and keeping my mind active. It definitely comes in handy, I feel I have a pretty good grasp, at more than a lot of musicians, of the business and finance world.
Jeff Kendrick
#57. I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou.
George Strait
#58. He spread out in his chair like a melting shard of Swiss cheese and informed us: "The only lies I'll ever tell are: 'I won't come in your mouth' and 'I'll just rub it around your ass.'" It wasn't a pretty visual.
Neil Strauss
#59. There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since.
Charisma Carpenter
#60. There's no such thing as ruining your life. Life's a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.
Sophie Kinsella
#61. A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#62. I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
Shakira
#63. Lies are just another kind of storytelling, but with the very distinct and enlivening motive of desperation. Since writers are by nature desperate creatures, they usually do a pretty good (or pretty awful, but always interesting) job of lying.
John Hodgman
#64. Everyone talks about how hard it is to have a kid, and that scares you into waiting. It obviously is tough [to be a parent], but when you feel that love, and it's instant, and it's so cool, so fun. When your baby smiles at you or when you just hold your baby, it's a pretty awesome feeling.
Clayton Kershaw
#66. I'm a pretty big pizza enthusiast so I could talk about pizza all day if you want
Michael Clifford
#67. I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.
Maya Angelou
#68. I mean, technically, he wasn't fired," Emilia clarified. "He was reassigned. But precision of language has never been the gossip mill's forte, and I guess anything's a pretty big step down after the White House.
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#69. Jeb'd said it was harder for a pretty girl to find work; even white men liked flowers, whether red or pink or blue.
Shannon Celebi
#70. And I thought: What am I doing here? What am I doing here? What am I? I wanted to feel like a pretty girl, even out in Colorado with no one who knew me. To be beautiful. To live beautifully. I drew on maroon Make Me Blush lipstick.
Aspen Matis
#71. [It may be true that] men never know a pretty thing when they see it. [But men do] know a lady when they see one.
Louisa May Alcott
#73. From a young age, my parents always told me and my sister how important it was as a girl to be more than just a pretty face and I think we've carried that message through out our lives.
Coco Rocha
#74. Narcissus is gorgeous. Like, imagine if someone could look exactly like bacon tastes and you have a pretty good picture of Narcissus (unless you're a vegetarian).
Cory O'Brien
#75. You think I'm a pretty good race car driver? Wait until you see my brother. He's the best driver in the family.
Kurt Busch
#76. If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.
Tom Hanks
#77. With science becoming far more accessible to all of us, I've become a pretty avid reader and devourer of it. One of the objectives that I had working with Fringe was to get more people talking about it because it's such fun.
John Noble
#78. Growing up in Wales was a pretty Draconian experience with religion.
John Cale
#79. I do not have a beautiful face, soft skin or a pretty smile, but I know how to inspire a bunch of pretty and lovely girls.
M.F. Moonzajer
#80. I was a pretty shy, lonely kid. I blossomed about age 17, when I went to college.
Francis Ford Coppola
#81. In 'Cavalry,' I had one scene where I was playing a pretty awful character.
Domhnall Gleeson
#82. The big question is always, 'Eyes or lips?' I tend to go with the eyes because I've got a lot more material to work with now - and it saves me from reapplying lipstick! I'm a pretty low-maintenance person and it's too excessive to exaggerate both the eyes and lips.
Claire Danes
#83. I'm a pretty normal guy. I do one weird thing. I like to go in the women's room for number two. I've been caught several times and I have paid dearly.
Creed Bratton
#84. Individual people shouldn't be fearful, because by and large our government, the federal government - people always talk; obviously, they don't trust the feds, whatever. The federal government and local communities have done a pretty good job at keeping us safe.
Sherrod Brown
#85. ~Paint a pretty picture, it takes one to make it real...
A. McEwan
#87. She's easy to lead around, a shiny present here, a pretty compliment there, and you have true love and a popped cherry sacrificed to the god of deception and hormones. Young girls are so ridiculous
so predictably easy.
Kristin Cast
#88. I am naturally pretty shy. I've come out of it a pretty good bit because I'm kind of a strange combination of being really shy and also being a born entertainer. I've got both in me and I guess it depends on my surroundings as to what's going to come out more prominently.
Leigh Bingham Nash
#89. Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.
Jimmy Smits
#90. I wanted revenge; I wanted to dance on the graves of a few people who made me unhappy. It's a pretty infantile way to go through life - I'll show them - but I've done it, and I've got more than I ever dreamed of.
Anthony Hopkins
#91. Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying.
Chris Stapleton
#92. I'm a pretty laid-back kind of guy. What I've always wanted to do is set up situations in our company where if people who worked there needed help, we would try to help them, and at the same token if the company needed help from people, they would help us. A kind of give and take.
Jerry Greenfield
#93. In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No no, no no, you don't ban it ... you don't buy it.
Ian Hislop
#94. America has given us a pretty decent modern world and doesn't always get enough thanks for that. But for reasons that genuinely escape me, it has also become spectacularly accommodating to stupidity. Where
Bill Bryson
#95. It is usually the case that people who know you better than you know yourself think you're a pretty good person.
Robert Breault
#96. When I see someone I think is cool, he's a pretty well-adjusted individual. He's not too affected one way or the other by what's happening, no matter what's going through his mind.
Willie Nelson
#97. SPIRITUAL FARTS Reverend Michael Beckwith2 tells us that if we simply study and talk about spiritual truths but never actually LIVE the stuff, we're gonna get spiritual indigestion and constipation. Spiritual farts. It's not a pretty thing. Seriously.
Brian Johnson
#98. That traitorous bastard. The idiot who thinks he's won himself a pretty girl. He has no idea who she is. No idea what she'd about to become.
And if he thinks he's even remotely suited to match her, he's even more of an idiot than I gave him credit for.
Tahereh Mafi
#99. And I admire that. A lot. The more I'm around her, the more obvious it becomes that there's a lot more to her than a shy smile and a pretty face.
M. Leighton
#100. I'm a pretty wild guy and I live pretty close to nature - I've often lived in caves or on the edge of cliffs or in forests - so it's just second nature for me to tap into the movings of the weather and the world.
Dean Potter
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